Senior Software Engineer - Exchange Core

Join Liftoff Mobile as a Senior Software Engineer - Exchange Core

Liftoff Mobile is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Supply Exchange Core team. This team is crucial to the success of our Publisher side business, focusing on designing and building platform infrastructure that processes over a billion events daily. We are a group of innovative engineers leveraging the latest technology to develop efficient and scalable systems. If you're passionate about building and scaling low-latency, high-throughput systems, we would love to speak with you!

Location

This is a remote-first role, requiring the ability to work Pacific time zone hours. There is a willingness to travel to Orange County for in-person meetings 1-2 weeks per quarter. While Liftoff is a remote-first company, we have US hubs in Redwood City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Orange County, and NYC. Given that most of the team is based in Orange County, it would be beneficial for the individual to be located in the OC/Los Angeles area for regular in-person meetings at our OC office (Costa Mesa, CA 92626). Most of the local team meets in-office once per week. We are also open to candidates located on the West Coast who are willing to travel regularly (one week per quarter) to the OC office.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership and work with various product management, development, and quality assurance groups in a fast-paced environment.
• Design, engineer, and implement highly-available, fault-tolerant, distributed systems enhancing our real-time bidding system.
• Focus on code readability, performance, testing, documentation, and continuous integration.
• Become familiar with core development, product release, and its business.
• Implement new features and streamline existing services.
• Minimize complexity and increase shared understanding.
• Share knowledge and best practices with team members.
• Participate in PagerDuty on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science with 5+ years of professional experience; or MS in Computer Science with 3+ years of professional experience; or equivalent work experience.
• Proficient in at least one of the following languages: Golang (preferable), C/C++, Java, Python.
• Experience building low-latency, high-throughput, distributed backend services.
• Deep understanding of computer architectures, data structures, and algorithms.
• Knowledge of profiling and debugging distributed microservices.
• Experience building data-intensive applications.
• Experience with distributed system observability metrics, using it for data-driven design decisions.
• Good team communication and collaboration skills.
• Passionate about helping others and invested in the team's success.
• Proficient in English (oral, writing, reading).

Preferred Experience

• Previous experience in ad-tech.
• Proficient in Golang.
• Experience with Redis, RocksDB, MongoDB, Kafka.
• Familiarity with gRPC, RestAPI, GraphQL.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub, CI/CD.
• Experience with Machine Learning and TensorFlow.

Compensation and Benefits

Liftoff's compensation strategy includes competitive market rate along with equity and benefits and perks that will give our employees what they need to do their best work. In order to ensure teams are compensated fairly for the work performed, we map out specific levels and take into consideration the cost of labor within each location. Liftoff provides employees a total compensation package of competitive market salaries, equity, health and wellness stipends, and medical benefits associated with your country of residence. The base compensation will vary based on location, experience, and level.

Liftoff is committed to providing and maintaining a work environment where all employees and candidates are treated with dignity and respect and that is free of bias, prejudice, and harassment. Liftoff is further committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all employees and candidates for employment free from discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition(s), genetic information, marital or domestic partner status, age, veteran or military status, family care status, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance.