Staff Backend Engineer
At Liftoff+Vungle, 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 4 million requests per second and interacting with over a billion users a week. Our technology is innovative and we have strong product-market fit; as a result, we're profitable and seeing tremendous growth. Across our engineering teams, we offer a wide range of opportunities for different skill levels and experiences.
Location:
This role is eligible to work out of any of our below North America office locations or is eligible for full-time remote work in one of our entities.
US office locations: Redwood City (HQ), San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Seattle, Austin (office in 2022)
Additionally, Liftoff+Vungle recently announced approved North American locations from which some employees may request to work from any city and county: California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah and Washington in the US, and Canada.
AS A STAFF BACKEND ENGINEER AT LIFTOFF+Vungle, YOU WILL:
- Build and have end-to-end ownership of Liftoff+Vungle's core engines, including distributed data stores, data processing pipelines, and high-performance services.
- Improve tooling and infrastructure to ship multiple times a day with quantified impact on millions of users and our business's revenue.
- Partner with the product team to plan short and long term strategy
- Contribute to an "engineering excellence" culture through state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems, and code review.
- Leverage your expertise in Clojure, Go, or other technologies to empower and mentor the engineering team - maximizing team velocity.
- Join a nimble, consistently excellent, and experienced engineering team.
DESIRED QUALITIES AND EXPERIENCES:
- Very strong coding ability.
- Solid core CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, architecting systems).
- A high bar 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 ability to get things done.
- Excited to work on large scale data stores and distributed systems.
- Ability to lead across team and role boundaries to effect large scale change in culture and systems.
- B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience).
- 8+ years software engineering experience.
- Experience building high scale distributed systems and backend architectures.
- A healthy sense of fun!
Working at Liftoff+Vungle is fast-paced, fun, and challenging, and we thrive on innovation. Come join our team and help shape the future of the mobile app ecosystem. If this role sounds interesting to you, we would love to hear from you!