Backend Developer

Job description

Who are we?

At Hive, we're at the forefront of transforming public decision-making through cutting-edge data science. Our mission is to provide Israeli social and public sector stakeholders with precise, actionable insights derived from sophisticated analysis of population data, enabling them to better address the problems faced by the population.

What is the position about?

We're looking for an experienced NLP Data Scientist to lead our natural language processing initiatives. You'll be at the forefront of developing and implementing advanced NLP models and algorithms to extract meaningful insights from large volumes of social media data, news articles, and other text sources.

What will be your impact at Hive?

• Design, develop, and implement state-of-the-art NLP models for tasks such as sentiment analysis, topic modeling, named entity recognition, and text classification.

• Lead the development of multilingual NLP solutions to support global social listening capabilities.

• Collaborate with the backend team to integrate NLP models into our production pipeline and ensure scalable, efficient processing of large text datasets.

• Develop innovative approaches for extracting trends, patterns, and insights from unstructured text data.

• Create and maintain NLP-focused data pipelines, from data collection and preprocessing to model deployment and monitoring.

• Stay current with the latest advancements in NLP research and incorporate new techniques into our solutions as appropriate.

What do we believe in?

• Accountability - we can trust you to take ownership of your tasks from design to production.

• Agility and adaptability - we can trust you to get things done, learn what it takes on your own, and adapt to a very dynamic environment.

• Communication - you can successfully communicate complex Data Science concepts.

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, following best practices and coding standards.

• An analytical mind with problem-solving capabilities.

• Team player and great interpersonal skills and the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Which qualifications and skills will drive your success in this role?

• Ph.D. or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related field with a focus on NLP.

• 4 + years of professional experience in applying NLP techniques to real-world problems, preferably in social media analysis or related fields.

• Strong expertise in modern NLP techniques, including transformer-based models (e.g., BERT, GPT), and embedding models.

• Proficiency in Python and experience with NLP libraries such as NLTK, spaCy, Hugging Face Transformers, and TensorFlow or PyTorch.

• Solid understanding of machine learning fundamentals and statistical analysis.

• Experience with multilingual NLP and low-resource languages (Hebrew, Arabic, Russian) - strong advantage.

• Experience working with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure) and Docker - advantage.

This is a unique opportunity to join a startup that believes in data for good with a focus on Israeli society.

What do we offer?

• Opportunity to join an early-stage startup

• A real impact on the way we are building the Data Science tech stack

• Hybrid work opportunities