Software Engineer (Ad-Serving)
About The Position
The Ad Serving team builds and maintains the mission-critical infrastructure responsible for serving ads across Liftoff’s product line. Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy. Our end-to-end technology stack helps app marketers acquire and retain high-value users, while enabling publishers to maximize revenue across programmatic and direct demand. Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence. At Liftoff, we’re solving one of the core problems faced by every mobile app: growth. To do so, we build Machine Learning and Big Data-driven technology that can accurately predict which apps a user will like, and connect them in a compelling way. Our systems operate at a scale unseen outside of the largest Internet companies -- processing over million requests per second and interacting with over billion users.
Requirements
- Very strong coding ability.
- Solid core CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, architecting systems).
- An incredible desire for quality and perfection, and the ability to temper it when necessary to ship.
- Sets ego aside in pursuit of finding the best solution, no matter where it comes from.
- Self-motivated and a great ability to hustle.
- Excited to work on large scale data stores and distributed systems.
- B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience).
- 4+ years software engineering experience.
- Experience building large distributed systems or backend architectures.
Nice To Haves
- A healthy sense of fun!
Responsibilities
- Ship code multiple times a day, and within seconds see its quantified impact on millions of users and our business's revenue.
- Be part of an “engineering excellence” culture through state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems, and code review.
- Become an expert in Go, and the many other cutting-edge open source technologies that maximize our development velocity.
- Join a nimble, consistently excellent, and experienced engineering team (former Google/LI/Ooyala/etc).
Benefits
- equity
- health/vision/dental benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
