Careers

Are you R&D oriented? Would you like to work at a young and promising R&D start-up that breathes innovation? We are a cutting edge, technology startup with a global market and vision. iletken is hiring at the following positions:

• Recommendations Engineer
• Web Engineer

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Recommendations Engineer

You will be helping build highly scalable recommender systems that bring relevant items for each user in Java. What we need from you:

• Strong math skills
• Passion and enthusiasm to build scalable systems that analyze HUGE data sets
• Ability to correlate real-world observations with statistical information
• Ability to find correlations within large, not obviously related data sets
• Ability to determine the probability of a desired outcome based on past attempts

Utilizing any of the following technologies:

• Collaborative Filtering (kNN, Matrix Factorization)
• Markov Models - Neural Networks
• Decision Trees (and automatic decision tree generation)
• Bayesian methods

What we'd like from you (don't be scared, we will help you):

• Hadoop or other MapReduce implementation experience (Hbase is a plus)
• Experience in high-stakes information retrieval and statistical analysis
• i.e. Bioinformatics, Fraud Detection, Data Mining
• Experience or interest on building large scale applications
• If you don't have any of these: passion to learn

Any of the following is a plus

Web Engineer

You will be helping build web applications and web based components of our recommender system. What we need from you:

• Passion and enthusiasm for intelligent systems and recommendations systems
• An eye for design and understanding of basic usability neuances
• Experience in building web applications, social applications and web API mash ups

Utilizing any of the following technologies:

• Php or Python
• REST API's and web services
• Strong knowledge of javascript
• XHTML, JSF, JSON and CSS

Any of the following is a plus

• Tomcat experience
• Enterprise Application Architecture (Spring etc)
• Semantic text mining experience
• Experience with Big Data
• Sense of humor