Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.
Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, 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.
Design, engineer & implement highly-available, fault-tolerant, distributed systems enhancing our real-time exchange system. Work closely with data engineers, data scientists, product and infra engineers to understand, refine, and prioritize requirements for machine learning models. Take ownership and work with various product management, development and quality assurance groups in a fast-paced environment. Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team and others, focusing on performance, testing, documentation, continuous integration. Mentor and share knowledge with team members. Confidently ship large features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects. Drive innovation on the team with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of immense complexity and scope. Paricipate on-call rotation. Design system, write code and provide code reviews, and deliver with speediness and quality. Help drive SSP service architecture, performance and scalability. Work with product management and other engineering teams to design, build and operate Supply Team next generation products, including AdExchange/HeaderBiddingParticipation products within Agile framework. Understand the platform needs of other functional areas and provide design and development guidance as required. Provide thought leadership in SSP transition to a micro-service and cloud-based architecture. Use strong communication skills (written and verbal) to work collaboratively with engineers in Beijing and overseas to create next generation AdTech systems. Design, engineer, and implement highly available, fault-tolerant, distributed systems to enhance real-time exchange system. Work closely with Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Product and Indra Engineers to understand, refine, and prioritize requirements for machine learning models. Take ownership and work with various product management, development, and quality assurance groups in a fast-paced environment. Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance. Perform performance, testing, documentation, and continuous integration. Telecommuting is permitted. 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. Salary: $206,315 - $276,000 per year.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, plus 7 years of professional experience as Software Engineer, Software Development Engineer, or any position/occupation/job title involving designing, building, and operating Supply products.
In lieu of a Bachelor's degree plus 7 years of experience, the employer will accept a Master's degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field, plus 5 years of professional experience as Software Engineer, Software Development Engineer, or any position/occupation/job title involving designing, building, and operating Supply products.
Must also have experience in the following: 5 years of professional experience performing software programming (clean, efficient, and scalable) using Golang, Java, or Python; 3 years of professional experience designing and implementing highly scalable and distributed systems and utilizing system architecture principles; 3 years of professional experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases, as well as message queuing (MQ) technologies; 3 years of professional experience with database design, optimization, and management to support large-scale applications; 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); 2 years of professional experience utilizing cloud computing platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP); and 2 years of professional experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (including engineering, product management, and design, to deliver high-quality software solutions).
CONTACT: Please apply online at: https://liftoff.io/company/careers/
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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 (including sexual harassment, gender harassment, and harassment due to pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender nonconformity, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, ancestry (including association, affiliation, or participation with persons or activities related to national origin, English-proficiency or accent, or immigration status), physical or mental disability, medical condition(s), genetic information of an individual or family member of the individual, marital or domestic partner status, age, veteran or military status, family care status, requesting or taking pregnancy, parental or disability leave, requesting an accommodation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance. All such discrimination and harassment is unlawful and will not be tolerated. Liftoff maintains a continued commitment to equal employment opportunity and expects the full cooperation of all personnel.
Liftoff's Compensation Strategy
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, medical benefits associated with your country of residence. The base compensation will vary based on location, experience as well as level.
Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:
Liftoff does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team. All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Liftoff vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Liftoff Recruiting Team and such a candidate was submitted to the Liftoff Recruiting Team via our Applicant Tracking System.
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