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The role involves leading a team of engineers to build scalable systems for data processing and analytics while driving innovations and ensuring alignment with business goals.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
You will build and lead a team of software engineers and analysts, driving innovation across Viant’s big data and DSP platforms. You’ll be responsible for designing and delivering scalable systems that power data processing, analytics, and help machine learning capabilities in collaboration with partner engineering and product teams.
THE DAY-TO-DAY- Build and lead high-performing teams by driving best engineering practices, accelerating delivery, and upholding strong architectural and code quality standards.
- Experience with building data pipelines, API services, streaming systems, or real-time analytics is a must.
- Foster a culture of continuous growth and improvement through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and clear measurable outcomes.
- Ability to adopt and drive innovations with the use of AI tools and agents.
- Collaborate with the product & project management stakeholders to provide accurate estimations and plans, and track the deliveries of your projects.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance platform scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Since most of the projects are big-data related, you will also be querying a lot to sift through data to make good decisions for your projects.
- Be involved in code/design on occasion, collaborating with the engineering team to contribute to critical projects, conduct code reviews, and provide technical guidance when necessary, while balancing leadership responsibilities.
- Ensure alignment between engineering priorities and business goals.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, Master's preferred.
- 3+ years’ experience managing and leading engineering teams.
- 7+ years of hands-on programming capabilities in Java and/or Go Lang.
- Experience working with geographically remote team members and contractors.
- A great track record of building large, horizontally scalable distributed systems.
- Intimate knowledge of different cloud providers and services, especially AWS and GCP.
- Intimate knowledge of different databases, especially traditional relational ones like MySQL/PostgreSQL and columnar ones like BigQuery.
- Experience building large customer-facing applications.
- Successful experience with agile development and continuous integration processes, SCRUM practices.
- Ad tech industry experience preferred.
Investing in our employee’s professional growth is important to us, but so is investing in their well-being. That’s why Viant was voted one of the best places to work and some of our favorite employee benefits include fully paid health insurance, paid parental leave and unlimited PTO and more.
Base compensation range: $160,000 - $200,000
In accordance with California law, the range provided is Viant’s reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. Final title and compensation for the position will be based on several factors including work experience and education.
About Viant
Viant Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: DSP) is a leader in CTV and AI-powered programmatic advertising, dedicated to driving innovation in digital marketing. Viant’s omnichannel platform built for CTV allows marketers to plan, execute and measure their campaigns with unmatched precision and efficiency. With the launch of ViantAI, Viant is building the future of fully autonomous advertising solutions, empowering advertisers to achieve their boldest goals. Viant was recently awarded Best AI-Powered Advertising Solution and Best Demand-Side Platform by MarTech Breakthrough, Great Place to Work® certification and received the Business Intelligence Group’s AI Excellence Award. Learn more at viantinc.com.
Viant is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. Viant prohibits unlawful discrimination against employees or applicants based on race (including traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, reproductive health decision making, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, military status, veteran status, uniformed service member status, sexual orientation, transgender identity, citizenship status, pregnancy, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. Viant also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.
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Top Skills
AWS
BigQuery
GCP
Go
Java
MySQL
Postgres
Viant Technology Irvine, California, USA Office
2722 Michelson Dr, Irvine, CA, United States, 92612
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