Middle Python Developer

Assaia International AG provides AI-based software solutions for global airports and airlines. We were founded in February 2018 in Switzerland, headquartered in Zurich and New York and we have a fast-growing team located across Europe and North America.
Assaia offers AI-based computer-vision solutions that monitor and analyse aircraft turnaround processes from video streams. Assaia’s solutions help airports and airlines improve on-time performance, efficiency, safety, and sustainability metrics, helping them get their passengers to their destinations on time. We work with aviation companies across the world including New York JFKIAT, Toronto Pearson, United Airlines, British Airways, London Heathrow and more.  See details and demos on our website and Linkedin! 

We’re looking for a proactive Middle Python Developer to develop and maintain our ML platform and its operations, focusing on providing data access APIs, building services for running ML pipelines, supporting third-party tools, creating model validation and export workflows, and delivering applied solutions. You will contribute to a core, stable, and scalable foundation that enables efficient ML development and operations across the organization, working on tools for model validation and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve our training infrastructure, enabling model trainers to test, train neural networks efficiently.

• Design, build, and maintain libraries that provide reliable access to data for training pipelines, create model validation and export workflows, and deliver applied solutions.

• Deploy and support third-party tools (CVAT, FiftyOne, MLflow, Jupyter, etc.).

• Actively participate in brainstorming and design discussions to improve processes and tools.

• Proactively identify weak spots in our system and suggest improvements to increase performance, reliability, and scalability.

Requirements

• 3+ years of production experience in Python.

• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms to write optimized and scalable code.

• Experience or strong willingness to grow in the frontend development (JavaScript, TypeScript, React). Comfortable picking up UI tasks as needed.

• Confident in using LLM-based tools to write clean, efficient code and to accelerate work across the stack.

• Strong experience deploying and managing services in Kubernetes.

• Very good verbal and written English skills (at least B2+).

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience working with large-scale video data (e.g. multi-terabyte datasets, storage optimization, video preprocessing pipelines).

• Experience with technologies from our stack: Django, React, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes.

Why Assaia

Assaia is a unique place where you can work on a technically advanced and innovative product for an exciting and important industry. You will be working in a diverse international team of smart people who can learn a lot from each other – all this without leaving your home – or sunbed, if you wish! 
Your input will be valuable and we actively ask everyone to share their thoughts and ideas to help steer the direction of the company’s development. Additionally, we offer:

• A flat hierarchy and close to zero bureaucracy.

• Participation in making important decisions, your ideas will be heard and implemented.

• Always remote work and a flexible schedule. The candidates should be based outside Russia and Belarus.

• Agile processes.

• Paid vacation, paid sick leaves.

• Paid relevant courses/online education/English courses.

• Great company culture based on honesty and mutual respect.

• Live team events.

We are a team of 95 now. We are looking forward to expanding it with you!