Senior Backend Engineer - Targeting

MNTN

1d•Remote

About The Position

At MNTN, we put our people first, full stop. This allows our company culture to be defined by our team members and their shared values, like trust, ambition, quality, radical honesty, and compassionate leadership. It’s why we all really love working for the Hardest Working Software in Television™ (and also why we were named one of Ad Age’s Best Places To Work in 2024.) We pride ourselves on bringing unrivaled performance and simplicity to Connected TV advertising. Our self-serve technology makes running TV ads as easy as search and social, helping brands drive measurable conversions, revenue, site visits, and more. It’s what led MNTN to being named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2023. You can learn more about us and everything we do by visiting https://mountain.com/. We’re committed to innovation that empowers, not replaces. At MNTN, AI is a tool for growth, enhancing efficiency while keeping a people-first approach. Our goal is to streamline workflows and drive new solutions—without compromising the human element that makes our company great. So if wanting to do more, own more, and make a bigger impact comes naturally to you, then you may be the person we're looking for to join us in our next stage of growth. The MNTN Targeting Group helps brands reach the right customers with software that turns petabytes of data into meaningful audience targeting strategies. Our engineers, data scientists and analysts build software that serves content to millions of people every day. You'll be joining the team working on MNTN Matched, our flagship machine learning product that is a critical revenue driver for the business. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll be deeply involved in developing and improving the core models and systems that power our targeting products. Your work will directly influence the quality, efficiency, and innovation of our targeting platform.

Requirements

5+ years of Java, Kotlin, or Scala development experience
Comfort diving in to tech stacks outside your primary specialization
A desire to understand the purpose and impact of the tools you build
Strong proficiency in SQL, table design, indexing and other common database skills
Integration of AI tools such as Cursor, ChatGPT and other LLM based copilots in your workflow
Experience with Microservice style architecture
Familiarity with Git and Linux/UNIX environments
Experience on AWS, GCP, or other cloud infrastructure

Responsibilities

Create and support Kotlin APIs and services to support our targeting distributed systems - the most critical component in our business
Work in many environments, including languages and tools like Rust, PySpark, Kafka, and several RDBMSes
Understand the broader context of our software beyond the components you build
Raise the bar on our engineering culture, leading by example
Build high volume services that are reliable at scale
Work with enormous volumes of data (100s of TB daily)
Collaborate with and explain complex technical issues to Product and Project Leads
Optimize and enhance existing products