Software Engineer, Dash

Liftoff • Redwood City, CA

5d • $220,000 - $260,000

About The Position

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. Build and perform end-to-end ownership of backend infrastructure, including distributed data stores, data processing pipelines, and high-performance front end servers. Ship code multiple times a day, while owning the testing, automating, maintaining, and troubleshooting of features/product. Analyze systems, infrastructure, and tooling to optimize for better performance. Process the terabytes of data received by servers in order to better understand users, system requirements and capabilities, and help design solutions to increase the efficiency of platform. Be part of a technical excellence culture through state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems, and code review. Become an authority in Clojure, Go, and the many other cutting-edge open-source technologies that maximize development velocity and business revenue. Work as part of the technical team to deliver on software projects using proven development processes (Agile/SCRUM). Contribute to requirements gathering, architecture, design, and implementation of predictive, high-performance marketing software. Use strong communication skills (written and verbal) to collaborate with stake holders on requirements and respond with deliverables in agile methodology for frequent releases. Employee may request to work from any city & county in the following states: CA, CO, ID, IL, GA, MA, MO, MN, NJ, NV, NY, OR, RI, TX, UT, WA.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or U.S. equivalent in Information Systems, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, plus 5 years of professional experience as Software Engineer, Software Developer, or any position/occupation/job title performing backend infrastructure engineering.
• In lieu of a Bachelor’s degree plus 5 years of experience, employer will accept a Master’s degree or U.S. equivalent in Information Systems, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, plus 3 years of professional experience as Software Engineer, Software Developer, or any position/occupation/job title performing backend infrastructure engineering.
• 3 years of professional experience in software programming (clean, efficient, and scalable) using Golang, Java, C# or Python
• 3 years of professional experience in designing and implementing highly scalable and distributed systems
• 3 years of professional experience working within a highly agile and intensely iterative software development process, and with the principles of agile development, including continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
• 3 years of professional experience designing and developing web applications
• 1 year of professional experience utilizing SQL and NoSQL databases, and performing database design, optimization, and management to support large-scale applications.

Responsibilities

• Build and perform end-to-end ownership of backend infrastructure, including distributed data stores, data processing pipelines, and high-performance front end servers.
• Ship code multiple times a day, while owning the testing, automating, maintaining, and troubleshooting of features/product.
• Analyze systems, infrastructure, and tooling to optimize for better performance.
• Process the terabytes of data received by servers in order to better understand users, system requirements and capabilities, and help design solutions to increase the efficiency of platform.
• Be part of a technical excellence culture through state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems, and code review.
• Become an authority in Clojure, Go, and the many other cutting-edge open-source technologies that maximize development velocity and business revenue.
• Work as part of the technical team to deliver on software projects using proven development processes (Agile/SCRUM).
• Contribute to requirements gathering, architecture, design, and implementation of predictive, high-performance marketing software.
• Use strong communication skills (written and verbal) to collaborate with stake holders on requirements and respond with deliverables in agile methodology for frequent releases.

Benefits

• Liftoff offers a fast-paced, collaborative, and innovative work environment where employees are empowered to grow and make an impact.
• Liftoff’s compensation strategy includes competitive salaries, equity, and benefits designed to support employee well-being and performance.
• Benefits may include medical coverage, wellness stipends, and additional perks based on your country of residence.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees