Senior Software Engineer
Ocado Group12 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the data and ML platform supporting live retailer production environments.
- Package, version, serve, and monitor machine learning models in production.
- Build and maintain APIs and data contracts for internal teams and data science dependencies.
- Enhance CI/CD and release pipelines across multiple environments.
- Evolve the team’s monorepo while delivering production services.
- Contribute to architectural decisions and document system designs through Architecture Decision Records.
- Collaborate with data scientists and engineering teams to integrate applications with the Ocado Smart Platform.
- Participate in on-call and production support for mission-critical planning tools.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience focused on production Python services, ideally in data or ML-backed cloud systems.
- Expertise in modern, strongly typed Python.
- Extensive experience building data-intensive applications, ideally with event-driven architectures and analytical data stores such as BigQuery.
- Hands-on experience packaging, serving, and monitoring machine learning models in production.
- Experience delivering production asynchronous APIs, preferably with FastAPI.
- Strong cloud platform experience with AWS and/or GCP.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and practicing automated testing.
- Strong software design and system architecture skills, including defining service boundaries and collaborating closely with data scientists.
Benefits
- 25 days of annual leave, rising to 27 days after five years, with the option to buy more.
- 30 days per year to work from anywhere in the world.
- Private Medical Insurance from the first month, wellbeing support, specialist apps, an Employee Assistance Programme, Income Protection, and Life Assurance.
- 22 weeks of paid maternity or primary carer leave and 6 weeks of paid paternity leave.
- Pension with employer matching up to 7%, Sharesave and BAYE share schemes, and interest-free train-ticket loans.
- Cycle to Work Scheme and free shuttle buses to and from Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City stations.
- 15% discount at Ocado.com with free delivery from the first month.
- Hybrid working in Hatfield.
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About Ocado Group
Ocado Group builds and licenses the Ocado Smart Platform, an end-to-end e-commerce, fulfillment, and robotics solution for grocery retailers, along with logistics and operations services. It also operates Ocado Retail in the UK via a 50:50 joint venture with Marks & Spencer. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Ocado is a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange.