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Senior Software Engineer, Application (Generalist)

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.

About our Applications Engineer opportunity

The Applications team builds the systems that connect Liftoff publishers with advertisers and manages the applications, campaigns, creatives (bonus points for knowing what all that means) and everything else that feeds into our ad serving pipeline.

We're a group of Generalist (Full-Stack) Engineers. We are creating amazing front-ends for the biggest publishers/advertisers in mobile. We want you to hit the ground running and begin adding new features within a couple of weeks but don't worry, the team will help you get up to speed!

So what's the day-to-day look like? It's a lot of coding, a decent amount of code reviews and unit testing, some discussions with end users and product teams, and most importantly, very few meetings. We want engineers who are looking to grow, build awesome features, and play a role in the expansion of our team.

Location:

Our preference is to have this role in the SF Bay Area so that employees can easily come to the Redwood City headquarters for in person collaboration as needed. We are open to placing this role remotely in any of our US entities as long as you are (1) able to work Pacific time zone hours (some meetings go until 7pm Pacific) and (2) willing to travel to the SF Bay Area for in-person meetings as needed.

This role is eligible for remote work in the following states:

California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, and Washington

Responsibilities

Take ownership and work with various product management, development and quality assurance groups in a fast-paced environment
Write and maintain application code to support the various web applications and public APIs
Develop and deploy reusable front-end components to enhance our customer and internal-facing web applications.
Maintain and improve CI processes and tooling
Work with our product team (designers and product managers) to build user-focused features/tools/systems
Contribute to and improve accessibility of the self-serve platform by working directly with internal clients to develop interfaces that are user-friendly
Implement controls within the interfaces team for engineers to have more control over their own deployments utilizing the custom testing framework.
Focusing on code readability, performance, testing, documentation, continuous integration
Become familiar with core development, product release and its business
Implementing new features and streamlining existing services
Minimizing complexity and increasing shared understanding
Mentor and share knowledge with team members.

Qualifications

5+ years of professional experience; or Master's Degree in Computer Science with 3+ years of relevant work experience
Proficient in Object Oriented Languages such as Go, Scala, or Python
Proficient with JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, Node.js, React
Experience with or exposure to an Agile process
Experience working with a design (mock) and transforming it to code
Deep understanding of computer architectures, data structures, and algorithms
Knowledge of profiling and debugging web applications, and API servers
Experience in building low-latency, high-throughput API services
Experience in front-end architecture, building responsive single page web application
Have good team communication and collaboration skills.
Passionate about helping others and invested in the team's success

Nice to have

Strong preference for Jenkins/TravisCI, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS, Github
Previous experience in ad tech
Built large scale applications with Next.js, Svelte, or similar UI framework.
Work experience in SQL or NoSQL such as Redis, MongoDB, Dynamodb, Postgres
Experience with API technologies gRPC, REST, and GraphQL
Experience building data-intensive web applications
Experience with distributed system observability metrics, using it for data driven design decisions
Experience in testing frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, Test Library, Jest, etc
ML, Tensorflow

Preferred location for this position is in the Bay Area.

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.

The minimum base pay for this position in the US depends on the location and falls in the following zones:
SF Bay Area, New York City, Los Angeles, Orange County: $150,000
Seattle/Olympia, Austin, Boston, San Diego, Santa Barbara: $130,000
All other cities in our approved to hire states: $125,000

Working at Liftoff is fast-paced, fun, and challenging, and we thrive on innovation. Come join our team and help shape the future of the mobile app ecosystem. If this role sounds interesting to you, we would love to hear from you!

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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.

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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