Senior Backend Engineer, Audience

Role & Responsibilities 

Location: United States (Remote)

As a Backend Engineer on the Audience team, you’ll be building the APIs that empower our clients to create comprehensive media plans for advertising campaigns that drive efficient outcomes on the VideoAmp platform in a user-friendly and scalable way. Your work will directly impact how major brands and publishers value, transact, and measure television and digital advertising.

You will work with our Data Science, Measurement, and Engineering Services teams to ensure that our methodologies are rigorous and best-in-class, our data pipelines are correct and reliable, and our APIs are responsive and highly available. The successful candidate will be a strong coder and excellent problem solver who prefers learning by doing.

Technologies We Use: Go, Python, gRPC, Postgres, Snowflake, Airflow, Temporal, Bazel, AWS, Kubernetes

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in web application development and an eagerness to learn new skills
• Fluency with one or more mainstream strongly-typed, compiled programming languages such as Go, Java, C#, or C++
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency with a version control system like GitHub including code review processes
• Collaborate with peers across the entire range of development activities that includes distilling engineering designs from product requirements, development of work plans, building consensus, implementation, testing, productization, monitoring, and maintenance
• B.S. or equivalent in Computer Science, Math, or similarly technical field preferred

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing RESTful, resource-oriented APIs as distributed systems using gRPC and Go
• Experience building large scale data processing pipelines using SQL or Spark with a data warehousing product like Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift
• Experience with monorepo development strategies and the Bazel build system
• Experience with cloud deployment of distributed systems on AWS using Kubernetes
• Experience working on a distributed team using asynchronous communication and project management strategies

What We Offer

This position has a minimum salary of $131,000.00 - $190,000 + Equity + Benefits. The actual compensation offer will be determined by a number of factors, including, but not limited to, applicant's qualifications, skills, and experience.

• Discretionary and flexible paid time off
• In addition to standard US holidays off, VideoAmp employees also partake in week long Summer and Winter Breaks
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your dependents - including multiple options fully covered by VideoAmp
• Unlimited financial wellness sessions with Origin financial advisors
• 401k Plan
• HSA & FSA
• Commuter Benefits
• Cell Phone Reimbursement
• Paid Maternity and Parental Leave for All Family Additions

We are on a collective mission to bring equity and transparency into media measurement, and that begins with an honest, inclusive culture. At VideoAmp, we empower our team to thrive through collaboration, mentorship, and innovation. If you're passionate about all things data and tech, and have extensive knowledge and curiosity around the digital media space, we’d love to hear from you.

Above all, if you're eager to influence and support the revolutionary goals of a dynamic, cross-functional team - join us and make an impact!