Senior Data/ML Engineer, Product

About Us

Zora is a new kind of onchain social network to express yourself freely, connect with others, and discover the value of your imagination. We believe that by using crypto, we can enable a more equitable system for creators, fundamentally rediscovering the power of the internet.

We’re working tirelessly to make Zora available to as many people as possible with a simple, fun, and rewarding consumer app. Our mission is to make creating on the internet free and valuable.

Who we're looking for

We’re looking for a senior data/ML engineer to join our new Discovery team, with the aim to surface high-quality recommendations for creators and content across the platform. Your work will directly impact the end user experience of our product, building feedback loops to make Zora a better, more engaging place for creators and traders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and iterate on retrieval and ranking pipelines that power discovery surfaces across the product, like feed, explore, search, and future ML-driven features
• Shape evaluation loops by defining high-signal metrics, designing A/B tests, and adjusting weights based on outcomes
• Build and maintain discovery surfaces for the API, used by the product as well as external partners
• Communicate status, updates, blockers, etc., to cross-functional stakeholders
• Respond to incidents as part of an on-call rotation
• Participate in RFC and code review

What Makes You a Fit

• 5+ years of experience as an engineer building production data pipelines with ML
• Proven track record of running experiments effectively
• Good communication and prioritization skills
• Ability to ship performant, maintainable code that make reasonable tradeoffs between product needs and technical constraints
• EU or U.S. (ET) time zone

Strong Candidates May Have…

• Prior experience with ingestion for blockchain data
• Strong knowledge of Python and MongoDB
• Familiarity with modern ML frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.
• Experience operating within high-ambiguity startup environments
• Good product intuition and understanding of user needs

Benefits

Zora provides top quality medical, dental, and vision insurance, with a flexible time-off policy, equity, and additional company perks (including stipends for: L&D, internet/phone bill, Ease of Life, and more!).

Values

• Move fast
• Endlessly curious
• A love for the big little details
• A willingness to experiment and be bold
• Do your best work

Location

While Zora’s headquarters are the internet, we have an office located in New York City and have employees all over the world.