Hybrid Distinguished Software Engineer – AVP

at LoopMe

• Job title: Distinguished Software Engineer – AVP
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, Java, Kafka, Microservices, Scala
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Backend engineering leader for LoopMe's advertising platform. Building systems for high-frequency request processing and real-time auctions using cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, evolve and drive understanding across the organization about our backend services and frameworks for our advertising ecosystem.
• Design and define APIs and developer facing tools that improve how teams across the organization ingest, process, and use data.
• Work effectively with other engineers, system architects, QA, and Operations teams to implement enhancements and issue resolutions.
• Lead technical discussions and come up with innovative ways to improve the business, our product and our processes
• Troubleshoot issues with applications, technologies, and infrastructure
• Mentor engineers across the team, raising the bar for code quality, testing, and software craftsmanship
• Think creatively and work independently - collaborating with others as needed to maximize efficiency and throughput
• Deliver quality work on time while driving developer productivity across the organization

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or related field
• 12+ years of programming experience
• 6+ years of AdTech experience (DSP, SSP, Exchange)
• A proven track record of designing and delivering large scale software systems
• You have a deep understanding of microservices and distributed systems with hands-on experience implementing them at scale
• You are experienced with software development in high capacity, high traffic, high availability websites/systems
• You have experience working in an agile environment
• Working experience at scale in Scala and/or Java and Kafka is a plus
• Background working with or building mobile ad tech SDKs and/or mobile games would be a bonus

Benefits

• Bonus
• This role is hybrid, asking that you come into the office 3x a week (Tues-Thurs), you must be located in The San Francisco Bay Area (the office is in Union Square, San Francisco)
• Self-Managed Vacation policy (no max on annual leave!)
• 1 month work-from-anywhere
• Healthcare
• 401k
• Summer Fridays!
• LoopMe Gives Back; we have a committed and active CSR team who organise regular events to hold up our pillars of Learning, Charity, Wellbeing, Responsibility and Sustainability
• We’ll set you up for success, providing training and career development