Technical Lead/Senior Software Engineer With Machine Learning

About Voxy Voxy, founded in 2010, is a trailblazing language training platform tailored to meet the specific language needs of international organizations. With a mission to enhance productivity, foster collaboration, and unleash human potential, Voxy has established itself as a global leader in the field of corporate language education. With a robust foundation and an ever-evolving vision, Voxy has supported corporate clients across 150 countries by delivering live language coaching led by certified instructors and an expansive library of role-specific courses that bridge critical soft and technical skill gaps.
Today, Voxy's impact spans the globe, with dedicated teams operating across multiple regions, including the United States, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Thailand, Malaysia, Spain, Italy, and Ireland. Originally focused on providing English language instruction, Voxy has evolved to offer an array of languages, including Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German, and French, catering to a diverse range of learners.
We believe that learning a language should be fun, rewarding, and a gateway to the best experiences life has to offer. If you agree, we'd love to talk. Position Overview If you are a strong technical lead looking to use your talent to rebuild our patented machine learning based content pipeline, take a look at Voxy. You will be working with a team to create the next generation of our tool that takes audio, video, text, and anything else we can throw at it and automatically extracts language constructs and transforms these sources into a format usable in research-driven learning activities. Online activities are coupled with live streaming for topic-based tutoring sessions using advanced algorithms to build a customized experience using authentic content sources from names you know (Bloomberg, AP, Financial Times and more). Voxy's goal is to become THE vendor of first choice in the $80 billion dollar language education market and our development team will be instrumental in reaching this goal.
As a Technical Lead on the Voxy Engineering team, you will make direct contributions to our codebase while simultaneously leading up to 3 engineers. Ideal candidates have experience as a senior engineer and want to improve their management skills. In this role, you will shape, grow, and lead a high-performing engineering team, guide team decision making on complex architectural tradeoffs, and collaborate closely with leadership.
What You'll Be Doing: INNOVATE by incorporating AI, NLP and ML into our content processing pipeline using applied machine learningMake direct code contributions to the code base and review the contributions of others to ensure code quality and adherence to specificationsAssume ownership of our ML pipeline that transforms content into learning objects across multiple languages.Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other EngineersFollow and/or create best practices from the industry and improve the implementation of those practices on the team over timeCollaborate with stakeholders and other contributors in Engineering, Product, and our human content curators to produce technical specifications, documentation and implementation plans for new and existing functionalityWhat We're Looking For: 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer in a production environmentExperience with Natural Language Processing(NLP), Machine Learning(ML), LLM's (or SLM) for Applied Machine Learning (Voxy is not writing novel algorithms… yet)Curiosity and knowledge about technologies and architectural patterns of software engineering across the entire stackPragmatism in understanding when to build the solution that scales to 1 million users or works for 100 usersAbility to design data models that reflect the Voxy business using advanced SQL/NoSQL/ORM'sExperience working collaboratively with cross functional teams and various stakeholders across an organizationExperience coordinating other Engineers through the delivery of a complex software project, including maintenancePrevious experience leading projectsWhat Would Be Nice To Have: Django or Django Rest Framework or FastapiAWS and OpenAI (and other) ML/AI services and a little mlopsB.S. or higher in computer science, science or engineering discipline or equivalent experienceIn addition to a rewarding job that that will directly impact how millions of students learn English, working here, you'll enjoy: Competitive salary, bonus, and stock optionsGreat benefits: medical insurance, cell phone & wifi reimbursement, home office & wellness budget, team eventsRemote-friendly work policiesProfessional development budgetLanguage classes w/ Voxy & FluentifyWork with an international team based in the U.S., and globallyWork with an awesome international team of super bright, creative, talented, and passionate individuals based around the worldVoxy Engineering Team's Values: Trust We trust our colleagues by respecting their decisions and opinions to collaborate effectively, do the right thing and maintain good working relationships.
Open Communication: Communicate openly by sharing our thoughts (pros & cons), being outspoken, having important decisions written down for the entire team, and staying in touch with the rest of Voxy outside Engineering to ensure that the team is on the same page and build & increase trust both within the engineering team and within Voxy.
Pragmatism Consider the impact of our choices to find an effective way to solve a problem.
Engineers Help Design the Product Actively direct the product to design elegant features at the early stages of the design process as well as continue to improve the design when we work on them.
We believe in a workplace that is meant for everyone. Voxy is an equal-opportunity employer. Voxy believes that a creative, engaged and diverse team can transform the market and positively impact people's lives through education. We are sure that the mission of building the most effective way to learn English is done with a plurality of ideas and points of view, which is why we work to promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives in our company.
As a reflection of our beliefs around inclusion in the workplace, our selection process has no restrictions; our goal is to assemble a diverse team that will help us be leaders in our market.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. Learn more about our DEI initiatives and ERGs by clicking here.

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