Lead Python Engineer

Company Overview

creative.ai is bringing artificial intelligence to studios and agencies in creative industries around the world. Our mission is to augment the daily workflows of designers, writers or artists — using a combination of machine learning, computational intelligence and creativity, classical A.I., a wide range of generative & procedural techniques, and a strong focus on human-computer interaction.

• As an early-stage startup with a grand vision, you’d join the core team to help us bring it to life!
• You’d be taking on ground-breaking applied work that’s fundamental to the future of creative industries.
• The company is fully funded with projects underway; you have the opportunity for high-impact contributions!
• We’re distributed through Europe (Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm & Amsterdam) and embrace remote culture.
• You’d join a Creative AI dream team, with founding team members that are veterans in the field.
• We expect individuals with a high degree of responsibility, providing solutions to problems they encounter.
• We care deeply about the ethical implications of AI and emphasize augmentation over automation.

Job Summary
We're looking for an experienced Python engineer as developer to join our core team in building our backend services, full-stack integration, and their deployment and monitoring.  Your role is to master Python software development and architecture better than anyone else on the team — helping guide a team of mixing senior and more junior developer.  You’ll also play a key role in shaping the entire system as well as continuously improve the quality of the code created by the team.  By integrating all systems together to better serve our users, you’ll work closely with both the front-end and back-end developers as necessary.

Requirements: No agencies or recruiters.

Must Haves

• Industry experience with Python 3.x, networking and micro-services;
• Experience working in a test-based development environment;
• Python web development experience (especially WSGI, aiohttp, ...);
• Understanding of both relational and NoSQL databases;
• Familiar with revision control systems Git, Mercurial or similar;
• Willingness to learn and adapt in a fast moving project.

Good-To-Haves

• Team leadership experience, working with multiple more junior developers.
• Experience working in a remote first company, preferably a startup;
• Work with Linux (Ubuntu), cloud-hosting (AWS/Azure) and Docker;
• Knowledge of message queues and distributed workloads (e.g. celery);
• Insights into Python performance and optimization, e.g. PyPy and asyncio;
• Experience with serverless architecture and event-driven services;
• Solid overview of data-science pipelines such as Luigi;
• Interest in classical artificial intelligence techniques like planning;
• Participates in and commits to open source projects.

Benefits and Perks

• Competitive salary, benefits, equity and flexible working hours;
• You get to be challenged every day by difficult to solve and novel problems;
• Work remotely from home or co-working spaces & link up with our vibrant community (online & in-person);
• Participate at regular company retreats in a variety of locations across Europe;
• Freedom to publish openly (papers), contribute code to open-source, and present at conferences.

Join us on our adventure into the Generative Age!