Software Engineer, Recommendation Systems

Meta

$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 12+ years in building large-scale applications
  • 8+ years of experience with web or mobile technologies
  • Strong background in mentoring and influencing engineering teams
  • Proven ability to plan multi-year roadmaps that align with long-term vision
  • 12+ years of programming experience in languages like Python, Java, or C++
  • Experience leading industry-wide impactful projects

Responsibilities

  • Drive team goals and technical direction to enhance organizational efficiency
  • Communicate complex features and systems clearly
  • Analyze industry trends to assess and cultivate new technologies
  • Collaborate with leadership to boost team and organizational performance
  • Identify new opportunities and influence staffing priorities accordingly
  • Create large-scale consumer products and features
  • Lead the technical vision and roadmap for cross-company initiatives
  • Partner with infrastructure and operations teams to develop scalable back-end services

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and ongoing skill enhancement
  • Collaboration with cross-functional leadership
  • Engagement with cutting-edge technologies, including AI
  • Mentorship opportunities to influence and shape engineering talent
  • A dynamic and innovative work environment
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
• Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
• Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies
• Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization
• Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas
• Create consumer products and features on a large scale
• Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
• Partner closely with infrastructure and operations teams to build and scale back-end services

Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
• Experience in mentoring/influencing engineers across organizations
• 12+ years of experience with building large-scale applications, or similar experience
• Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which shorter-term projects ladder to the long-term vision
• 8+ years of experience with web or mobile technologies
• Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact
• 12+ years of programming experience in relevant languages or frameworks (e.g., Python, Java, C++)
• Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts

Preferred Qualifications
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

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