Python Open-Source Developer
RStudio
Open-Source Modeling Python Developer
Description
This software development role focuses on creating new tools for tabular data analysis and modeling. You will create Python APIs and packages to fill in gaps of common data analysis activities focused on tabular data. This includes:
- Exploratory data analysis.
- Data preparation, feature engineering, and preprocessing.
- Supervised and unsupervised models.
- Visualization methods for models and results.
- Tools for model interrogation.
- Presentation, visualization, and documentation of results.
This position involves new packages and possibly contributing to scikit-learn. It does not involve creating, testing, or deploying specific machine learning models. It is a pure software development position.
How We Work
At Posit, open-source developers operate somewhat differently to traditional software engineering. As an open source developer, you have the opportunity to help guide the roadmap and priorities based on your technical knowledge of the problem domain, feedback from users, and in-depth technical understanding. You will not be given a static to-do list from others but will work end-to-end: writing code and tests, documenting APIs, giving tutorials, and keeping the community updated to date with your work. We look for independent developers who are deeply invested in a given domain and we give them an environment designed to support high productivity. We work in small groups, with minimal meetings and plenty of focus time.
Posit welcomes all talented colleagues and are committed to a culture that represents diversity in all its forms. We operate under a unique sustainable business model: We have over 50% of our engineering dedicated to creating free and open source software. We are profitable and we plan to be around decades from now. Posit is a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) and a Certified B Corporation®, which means our open-source mission is codified into our charter. As a result, our corporate decisions balance the community's interests, customers, employees, and shareholders. Hear more about why we think this matters here.
What You Will Be Doing
1. Help develop strategy
- Learn where needs are not currently met based on personal experience and community engagement.
- Prioritize projects and create development roadmap.
2. Create, document, and maintain tooling for modeling in Python
- Development and documentation of code.
- Reproducing and diagnosing reported bugs, converting them into unit tests, and developing code to fix them.
- Collaborating with team members to plan and execute new feature development.
- Writing user-friendly API documentation and user guides.
- Engaging with the open-source community.
3. Engage with the Python data analysis community
- Training.
- Blog posts.
- Presentations.
- Other DevRel activities.
About You
- You have a strong, fundamental understanding of and experience with Python. Python should be your primary language.
- You have an in-depth understanding of advanced techniques for tabular data, such as machine learning, statistical analysis, and visualization.
- You have experience with Git/GitHub.
- You enjoy sharing and exchanging knowledge and expertise with coworkers and users.
- (Preferred) You have experience with creating or contributing to Python packages.
- (Preferred) You have real-world experience in analysis and modeling of tabular data.
Posit offers competitive compensation with extensive human-first, people-focused benefits to prioritize your personal and financial well-being. Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, and skillset. This hiring range reflects base salary and assumes that the job will be performed in the United States.
Working at Posit:
- We welcome all talented colleagues and are committed to a culture that represents diversity in all its forms.
- We prioritize giving ourselves “focus time” to get deep work done. We minimize meetings and attempt to operate asynchronously.
- We are a learning organization and take mentorship and career growth seriously. We hope to learn from you and we anticipate that you will also deepen your skills, influence, and leadership as a result of working at Posit.
- We operate under a unique sustainable business model: We have over 50% of our engineering dedicated to creating free and open source software. We are profitable and we plan to be around decades from now.
- Posit is a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) and a Certified B Corporation®, which means our open-source mission is codified into our charter. As a result, our corporate decisions balance the community's interests, customers, employees, and shareholders. Hear more about why we think this matters here.
Notable:
We offer competitive compensation with extensive human-first, people-focused benefits to prioritize your personal and financial well-being. These benefits apply to full-time positions only.
- 100% of medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums are covered for employees and their families! Fertility and gender-affirming healthcare is included in all of our plans.
- Supplemental mental health and wellness benefits are available via Ginger even if you don’t opt in to our insurance plans, including Ginger for teen family members.
- Posit's gender-neutral paid parental leave policy covers all new parents, including foster and adoptive parents.
- All full-time employees are eligible for 401k enrollment starting on day one.
- After six months of employment, Posit provides a substantial yearly match to employee 401K contributions.
- An annual profit-sharing bonus for employees recognizes our team’s contributions to company performance across the year.
- We are a 100% distributed team. You are also welcome to come into our Boston office.
- We offer a $400 monthly reimbursement for coworking space rental if you prefer to work away from home.
- Our Lifestyle Savings Account offers an initial deposit of $1800 and then an additional quarterly stipend of $375 to cover the costs of professional development, wellness, financial health, charitable giving, and remote work support.
- We provide a flexible environment with a generous vacation policy that encourages a minimum of four weeks PTO per year plus 13 paid company holidays.
Are you excited about this role but not sure if your experience aligns with every qualification in the job description? That’s okay. We know multiple perspectives are essential for a thriving organization and we'd still love to hear from you!
Posit is committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applicants of different backgrounds, cultures, genders, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, or length of time spent unemployed.
Posit Software, PBC participates in the federal E-Verify program, which confirms employment authorization of newly hired U.S. based employees. E-Verify is not used as a tool to pre-screen candidates and is only initiated upon hire.
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