We are seeking a highly motivated, talented engineer to join our engineering team.  As part of the Engineering team you will add value to one of these three groups:

Software Development: In the software development group, you will develop innovative products by building software quickly and iteratively in an agile environment.  You will release your software in production to our customers, and you will monitor and maintain it to provide an exceptional customer experience.  You will work directly with Product to drive our roadmap and vision forward.

QA:  Our Software Engineers in Test work closely with the development team doing code reviews, developing test automation & coding test frameworks within a continuous deployment and Agile environment.  Our team develops automation tests using a BDD (behavior driven development) framework and in native python. Other areas of focus of the team are testing non-functional areas of the system such as performance and security.   When they find the time and have a reason, there is exploratory testing of developed features the SDET’s are responsible for.

DevOps: The DevOps team is a group of engineers who are responsible for NS’ security, infrastructure, cloud computing, networking and deployments. You will work together with, and support, all NS engineering and business operations.

Responsibilities:
Propose solutions and software designs to meet product goals
Develop high quality maintainable software
Test your code in our integration environment
Seek code reviews and code review your peers’ work
Identify, design and develop automation solutions to improve team efficiency
Own certain components or systems, and continuously work to improve them
Dive deep to resolve problems at their root, looking for failure patterns and suggesting fixes
Support your products running in production
Participate in projects that improve the performance and usability of our product portfolio
Work in an agile team, including sprint planning, daily standups and user story estimation
Be an ambassador for the team to both our internal and external clients

Qualifications:

A Bachelor's degree or 2-3 years of professional software development experience
Fluent in at least one programming language with the ability and interest to pick up additional
Proven software-related project experience
Understands the end-to-end software development process
Experience working with web technologies
Examples of results through delivery
Experience with relational databases, i.e. postgresql
Passion for improving code quality and development processes
Experience developing in Unix systems
Familiarity with Amazon Web Services
Proven capability for critical thinking, problem solving and the patience to see hard problems through to the end with our clients
Outstanding oral and written communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
Willingness to partner with a wide variety of people from diverse backgrounds, including engineering, product and professional services team members

You will do well in this role if you:

Love making practical changes and seeing your products in use. Someone who wants to create an exceptional customer experience will fit in well on our team, meaning you naturally like to find solutions to problems and in general enjoy helping people in any way you can. You take delight in debugging unfamiliar problems. The desire to keep learning is embedded in your skillset.  We don’t need you to have experience with everything yet, but individuals that want to keep learning and challenge themselves thrive in this environment.

About Narrative Science:
Narrative Science is the leader in advanced natural language generation (Advanced NLG) for the enterprise. Quill, its Advanced NLG platform, learns and writes like a person, automatically transforming data into Intelligent Narratives—insightful, conversational communications full of audience-relevant information that provide complete transparency into how analytic decisions are made.
At Narrative Science, we embrace the diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of our future employees, colleagues, customers, partners and other stakeholders. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.