Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Gousto
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1-3 days a week in office (Shepherds Bush, London)
Recipe boxes delivered to your door
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Recipe boxes delivered to your door
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
1-3 days a week in office (Shepherds Bush, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the most-loved way to eat dinner.
Role
Who you are
- Expertise at the senior level in deploying and tuning algorithms, especially as relates to classification and prediction use cases. Familiar with Python libraries like Numpy, Scikit-Learn, and Keras
- Understanding of statistical concepts, particularly in relation to A/B testing
- Understanding of CI/CD best practices, preferably with experience using CircleCI, to maintain efficient and reliable code deployments as well as knowledge of Poetry for version management
- Expertise at the senior level with developing feature stores for algorithms
- Experience working with data pipelines, especially in Python and SQL
- (Optional, but preferred) Experience working with Databricks, from creating pipelines and using data lakehouse technologies (DLTs) to deploying and monitoring models using Databricks functionalities such as Model Registry and MLflow
- An aggressive focus on delivery - Bento is a tech startup and high quality execution is among our highest virtues
- Strong ownership mentality, with ability to work closely with an engineering manager to propose courses of action and consider alternatives
- A collaborative learning mindset, with a strong desire to elevate the skills of the team around them also equally learn from their peers
What the job involves
- Bento is a team of 19 people total, of which 16 are in tech. You will be joining our Zesters squad, who own Bento’s data pipeline and related AI products
- The Zesters are building a brand new enterprise-grade SaaS-ready suite of data products, and we need the expertise of a machine learning engineer to both help with designing our data pipeline as well as deploying and tuning AI models against our merchant’s data
- Bento tech’s core challenge is to design our platform to scale to many merchants without duplicating work for each merchant, while also providing effective solutions to each merchant’s unique challenges and data contours
- Success in this role means delivering a robust, scalable set of data science products that deliver tangible value to our merchants, while also preparing to scale the business non-linearly in 2025
- Build, tune, and deploy AI algorithms to Bento merchants (focus areas will be on customer churn prediction and on-screen recovery for cancelling customers)
- Help design and build the data pipeline that feeds our AI algorithms, including raw ingest from upstream data sources as well as model feature generation
- Write internal documentation and runbooks for our AI algorithms
- Aid the Zesters engineering manager in scoping, prioritising, and planning work for the squad, especially related to algorithms
- Provide machine learning expertise and guidance to Bento engineers and data engineers
- Provide expertise and advice to Bento’s product managers on the best way to design our products to both deliver value to our merchants needs and scale Bento’s business
Salary benchmarks
Our take
There is an accelerating consumer need to eat healthily, sustainably, and at value. Gousto aims to meet this need with its meal-kit delivery service, which offers pre-packaged ingredients and recipe instructions. It sets itself apart with more than 200 different recipes to choose from each week - a third of which are customisable.
In 2021, Gousto sold more than 90 million meals, amounting to three meals every second, a figure that is on the rise. It is part of the UK Plastics Pact, which advocates for 100% reusable, recyclable and compostable plastic. As a member, Gousto has committed to eliminating problematic plastics, stimulating innovation and helping to build a stronger recycling system in the UK.
Gousto became a B Corp certified company for its sustainability efforts. Following huge investments in 2023, the company is now a unicorn and is sure to continue its growth over the coming years as more consumers switch to convenient online grocery shopping.
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Meet the team
4 people
Adam Harris, Director of New Markets
Our mission
To take Gousto to more markets beyond the UK.Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Feb 2023
$66m
LATE VC
Jan 2022
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $374.3m
Company benefits
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Interest free loan to spend on the latest tech
- Referral scheme
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays), + a holiday day added each year (up to 30 days), + buy up to 5 days extra holiday
- 40% Gousto discount, 15% for friends and family, and first box free
- Digital GP & wellbeing apps
- Private healthcare
- Discounted gym membership
- Company pension
Company values
- Dream - We’ve got huge ambition and believe everything is possible - Curious, bold and resilient, we’ve got an insatiable appetite to learn and grow
- Deliver - We work at pace and focus on impact, taking ownership of the solution and raising the bar every step of the way
- Care - We obsess over our customers, doing the right thing for them and for the planet. We are one team, supporting and celebrating one another
Company HQ
Shepherd's Bush, London HQ, UK
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Leadership
Timo Boldt
(Founder & CEO)Spent 4 years in Finance at Rothschild and a hedge fund before founding Gousto in 2012. Sits on the Digital Advisory Board at Unilever.
People progressing
Joined as Operations Development Director, being promoted to EVP Operations after 1 year, and has since become Chief People Officer.
Joined as a Customer Care Agent in 2014, and is now Head of Customer Care.
Joined as PR Manager, being promoted to Senior Brand and PR Manager after 1 year and again to Head of Brand Marketing and PR after 3 years.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Gousto
- Whether it’s creating diversity in our recipes or building new teams, we care about our people and the opportunities they have at Gousto. Across our business we lead with inclusivity and strive for equality in all we do; working hard to ensure Gousto is an environment where you can be totally yourself.
- Our Inclusion Communities are employee-led groups that connect people with shared identities, lived experiences, and passions. They champion each other, raise awareness of what matters most, and help us build a workplace where everyone belongs. Whether it’s Pride Sports Day, an Eid feast, learning from disability advocates, or providing free period products across our sites, our communities help turn care into action and they’ve driven meaningful change, shaping policies that support our people through key life moments, from enhanced parental leave to menopause, fertility and baby loss support. They’re powerful platforms for connection, celebration and progress, and we’re always striving to do better.
- We currently have nine active communities: Gousto Mind, Gousto Women, Gousto Muslim, Gousto Black, Gousto Asia, Gousto Pride, Gousto Neuro & Gousto Parents.
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