SEEKING FREELANCER - New York - Remote work possible
What we're building: 
An AI-driven social shopping platform connecting brands/retailers with social media influencers and their followers. A similar app is liketoknow.it which does $1B in sales a year in the fashion space. The Influencer Marketing space is growing 100% YoY. We are going after influencers in beauty &amp; furniture which are each sized at 100B sales in the US market alone.
Startup stage: 
Early stage. Currently improving backend architecture, validating MVP and iterating/launching frequently to ensure product-market fit. Already have users &amp; signing up more users every week.
What the developer can get out of the opportunity:
-Chance to build brand new technology from scratch, including back end architecture &amp; design
-Chance to work remotely; generous flexibility for location, hours worked, and time zone
-Chance to tackle major tech challenges: storing, managing, and processing large data sets (e.g. product database, influencer content); integrating these data sets into a consumer-facing app; minimizing online retrieval latency for these data sets.
-Chance to gain experience integrating AI into a backend system. The AI currently has 3 modules: A) recommendation engine for the social shopper, B) NLP to identify products from influencers' Instagram feeds C) Reverse image search/image recognition to identify products from influencer photos.
Developer Qualifications:
- 2-4+ years of experience in backend development, preferably for a consumer-facing app
-At least 1 year of experience in front end development, either web or mobile or preferably both
-At least 1 year of experience with python and/or integrating python code with a back end system
- Self-starter attitude and ability to make decisions independently
- Loves to solve problems and tackle new challenges
- Great attention to detail, well organized and consistently delivers quality performance
- Passion to help users with the technology you build
- BS in Computer Science, or equivalent educational experience.
Desirable Skills: 
- iOS and Android app development
- Experience integrating AI/ML with back end
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