Senior Software Engineer

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - KEVEL RELAY

Location: Remote - United States (preferably East Coast) or United Kingdom.

We want engineers who are passionate about making the internet a better place.

Kevel provides APIs for building user-first, custom ad platforms. Our customer list is already a global who's who in the Internet space, with names like Ticketmaster, Nerdwallet, GoDaddy, Edmunds and Klarna. We've recently launched our newest product - Kevel Relay - that makes it easy for our customers to build custom programmatic ad stacks - thereby giving them more control over their monetization and unlocking revenue growth.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to come in and help scale Relay to the next level. You'll work closely with the Relay engineering team contributing to innovative work in the programmatic space, building functionality on our roadmap, and building demand integrations for our customers.

You'll work closely with our Engineering Lead, Senior Engineer, and Front End Engineer, and report directly to the Relay Product Lead.

WHAT YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH:

• Expand our platform's programmatic advertising offering including its backend services and user interface.
• Improve the platform's architectural qualities, helping ensure our foundation provides the scalability, reliability, security and performance our global customers require.
• Build integrations with demand partners
• Ensure our distributed backend is fault tolerant, scalable, and fast.
• Work closely with the product management team to help design and build new features.
• Help provide operational oversight for the platform, making sure we are up and running 24/7.
• Work closely with our customer success teams to deliver value and drive growth.

SKILLS YOU'LL BRING WITH YOU:

• Programming experience in Rust and/or TypeScript or a strong desire to learn either
• HTTP-based API experience
• Experience working with relational databases, experience with distributed datastores is beneficial
• Experience with cloud services and specifically Amazon Web Services
• Experience with monitoring and operations beneficial
• Site Reliability Engineering experience beneficial

You want to be a member of an engineering team that values:

• Constant improvement. If your processes have a way to improve themselves, you'll never be stuck in a rut. We hold retros, and we value and protect the ability of any team member to say, "This can and should be better." We value experimentation, especially when coupled with measurement.
• Balance. We're a collaborative team. We kick ideas around. The more viewpoints we have, the more likely we are to hear a good idea we haven't thought of. We all have the opportunity to work on all parts of the system. No one is stuck working on the legacy systems full time.
• Working to live, not living to work. We take our work seriously. We strive to make the best software we can for our clients. Software is a marathon, not a sprint. We work hard, but at a sustainable pace, and do better work as a result.
• Autonomy. One of our core values as a company is, "We're all adults." We do code reviews and sometimes we pair program, but we trust each other. If you thought about the problem and have an opinion, your teammates will listen.
• Mastery. Our CEO started out as a software engineer. Our VP of Engineering writes Clojure. We have an engineering team with decades of collective experience writing high-quality, fault-tolerant distributed systems. We love taking on and solving hard problems. We love learning.
• A sense of purpose. We know what problem we're trying to solve: to provide a first-rate ad serving platform to our global customers while continuing to evolve our product to meet the needs of the future.

WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING WITH US:

• Fully Remote Team: We are a 100% remote work environment with employees located around the world. You are welcome to work from home, one of our offices, a WeWork office, or an equivalent co-working space.
• Flexible Working Hours: We understand our employees have their own lives, responsibilities and working preferences. We trust our employees to communicate with their managers, and work when they work best.
• Paid Health Benefits: 100% employer paid health benefits for you and your entire family.
• Savings opportunity for the Future: Kevel offers retirement savings plans with employer contributions so employees can save toward future financial objectives.
• Rest and Relaxation: Unlimited personal time off - and we mean it! We trust our employees to take the time they need, whenever they need it. We also offer Paid Holidays + a Kevel Holiday Break (from 12/24 - 1/1 every year!)
• Home Office Stipend: You'll receive a new Windows or Mac machine (your choice) + a $500 home office allowance to purchase what you need to set up your work space properly!
• Parental Leave Support: We support both primary and secondary caregivers with salary continuation and benefits when our employees are growing their families.
• Free press benefits: Kevel believes all employees should have access to legitimate news sources. You'll receive a $300 annual allowance to subscribe to the news source of your choice.
• You'll work with an award winning team! We've won numerous Best Places to Work Awards for several years and counting! We've also won many awards for our Innovation, Business Intelligence, and our best-in-class products (Software of the Year, Cloud Company of the Year, Best Ad Tech and API Innovator).
• Full transparency. We embrace transparency and encourage you to read more about what we value through our Company Constitution and Employee Bill of Rights, our About Kevel page, and Careers Page.

Hiring Guidelines by Country: Kevel hires new team members in countries around the world. The benefits described above are offered to all employees, but the logistics of how these benefits are offered may vary country-to-country. Our Recruitment Team will share the specific benefits that are available in your location, and can help answer any questions about location specific eligibility requirements and benefits after the recruitment process begins.

ABOUT KEVEL

Kevel (previously Adzerk) offers the infrastructure APIs needed to quickly build custom ad platforms for sponsored listings, internal promotions, native ads, and more. We are committed to helping publishers drive new revenue and take back the Internet from ad tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook.

Kevel was founded in 2010 in Durham, North Carolina. We embrace remote working culture with our entire team being spread across the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal and Singapore! Kevel is proud to be an inclusive workplace with one goal in common — we want to make the internet a better place.

ALL APPLICANTS ARE WELCOME, EXACTLY AS YOU ARE

We're building a global community - one that's safe for people of all backgrounds and walks of life. Our policies and way of working are guided by our core values of inclusivity, trust, empathy, and respect. We know we have more work to do, but firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic selves. Kevel is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts and commitment to creating a diverse, inclusive, and transparent workplace where everyone feels respected, heard, safe and accepted. At Kevel, we embrace our differences and consider diversity a superpower that drives the success of our organization.

We highly encourage people of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply, even if your experiences don't meet every requirement in the job description. We especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, veterans, and people with disabilities.

Individuals seeking employment at Kevel are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.