КипрMayflower
Backend Team Lead (ML)
2 нед. назад
КипрLeadOnsite
pythonfastapiflaskgrpckubernetesmlflowairflowmicroservices
Mayflower is a technology company building highload products used by millions worldwide. They are seeking a Backend Team Lead to lead ML development focused on delivering production-grade ML-powered backend services.
About the company
- Mayflower is a technology company building highload products used by millions of people worldwide.
- Operating at the scale of one of the world's top-50 websites, we solve complex engineering challenges and create solutions that power real-time entertainment for a global audience.
About the product
- Building and delivering production-grade ML-powered backend applications.
- Not about research or experimentation, but turning ML models into reliable, scalable, user-facing services.
- Own the full lifecycle of ML-powered features — from integration to deployment and operation in production.
Responsibilities
- Design and build production ML services (APIs, microservices, real-time systems).
- Lead and grow a team of backend engineers: plan work, mentor team members, conduct code reviews, provide technical guidance, and foster engineering excellence.
- Drive architectural decisions and ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability of ML services.
- Integrate ML models into user-facing applications.
- Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of ML-powered systems.
- Define and implement best practices for serving, versioning, and monitoring models in production.
- Collaborate closely with ML engineers/data scientists and DevOps/MLOps teams.
- Own the delivery pipeline of ML features into production.
- Lead and mentor engineers working on ML-powered applications.
- Drive architectural decisions around low-latency and high-load systems.
- Identify bottlenecks between experimentation and production and eliminate them.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend/software engineering in a Lead or Senior role (mentoring, ownership, decision-making).
- Strong commercial Python experience.
- Managerial experience leading an engineering team.
- Experience designing and building production backend systems and microservice architecture.
- Strong understanding of system design, scalability and high-load systems.
- Experience developing APIs (FastAPI, Flask, gRPC or similar).
- Hands-on experience with code reviews, mentoring and technical decision-making.
- Ability to drive cross-team collaboration and own complex technical integrations.
Nice to have
- Experience with real-time ML systems (recommendations, ranking, personalization).
- Experience in video streaming or high-throughput platforms.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud/on-prem environments.
- Experience with feature stores, model monitoring, A/B testing.
- Experience working alongside MLOps platforms (MLflow, Airflow, etc.).
Conditions
- EU-based employment contract and a 3-year Cyprus work visa with full support for relocation and visa processes, including assistance for family.
- Opportunity to obtain an EU passport after 4 years of residence.
- Full relocation package: flights to Limassol for candidate and family, company-covered apartment for the first month, and full relocation support.
- Transparent performance reviews twice a year, with bonus opportunities and salary adjustments.
- Private medical insurance for candidate and family.
- Provident fund (Cyprus) available after probation, co-funded savings plan.
- Corporate mobile plan (unlimited in Cyprus with roaming included).
- Mindfulness and well-being support, including 50% coverage of psychological assistance.
- 50% coverage of school and kindergarten fees for children.
- Fully covered sports benefits, access to in-house electric scooters and bike rentals.
- Professional growth support: language courses, conferences, training programs, and coaching.
- Peer recognition program for receiving and sharing kudos.
- Fully equipped office in Limassol city center.
- Free breakfasts and lunches in the office and an in-house coffee bar and health bar with nutritious snacks.
- Strong engineering culture with international teams, corporate events, team buildings, and hackathons.
How to apply
- Interview steps: 1. HR Interview (45 min), 2. Technical Interview (90 min), 3. Live code-review interview (90 min), 4. Final interview with the team (60 min).