Director of Engineering

Applecart was founded in recognition of a challenge: the most influential individuals – executives, investors, policymakers – have historically been the most difficult to access. Large organizations have often spent hundreds of millions of dollars to reach a handful of these people. Applecart’s technology is designed to level the playing field.

Applecart is the leading technology platform creating a new category of “Decision Maker Marketing.” From enterprise sales and corporate communications to government relations and employee engagement, the most sophisticated C-suite leaders use Applecart to manage their brand with business-critical decision-makers such as policymakers, investors, CEOs, key employees, members of the media, and more.

Traditional digital targeting technology can help organizations reach a mass audience, but it doesn’t really move the needle on critical outcomes. Decision-makers are informed by what they read, learn from advisors, hear from colleagues, and discuss with family and friends. To break through to them, you must reach them through the only channel that really moves them: those they know and trust. Applecart’s platform uses publicly available or fully permissioned data to map billions of social relationships between nearly every American adult. By making this data addressable in a privacy-compliant way, Applecart enables clients to market directly to decision-makers and those that matter most to them.

A few quick facts about us:

• Applecart’s platform has been used by hundreds of industry-leading clients spanning Fortune 500 companies like Blackstone and Intuit, leading nonprofit organizations like the Environmental Defense Fund, and top-tier communications and public affairs firms like Teneo, Sard Verbinnen, and Weber Shandwick.
• Applecart is growing quickly—over the last several years we’ve averaged 122% revenue growth year-over-year.
• Our senior leadership team includes two members of the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Marketing and Advertising, the former Head of Product at Moat, Oracle’s online ad measurement platform, a former senior White House advisor, an early sales leader at Google and Twitter, and two of the Democratic Party’s most successful pollsters and strategists.
• Our investors include global sports, entertainment and marketing giant Endeavor, KKR Co-Founder Henry Kravis, entrepreneur Chris Burch, a founder of Palantir, senior engineering leaders at Twitter and Yelp, former Fortune 50 and advertising agency CEOs, and a number of well-known venture capitalists. Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel and Owl Capital Managing Partner Jennifer Fonstad serve on our board.
• Our work has been featured on Morning Joe on MSNBC, Bloomberg and The Colbert Report, and in Axios, BusinessWeek, the Associated Press, Forbes, the Washington Post, and Politico, among many others.

Who You Are:

As the Director of Engineering at Applecart, you will lead innovation on the core products and technologies that drive our business - the data pipelines, algorithms and applications that create and refine our Decision Maker Networks. To achieve this goal, your team delivers ETL pipelines, APIs and algorithms, all within a service-oriented software architecture. You will lead a team of skilled and collaborative software engineers dedicated to the continuous delivery of business value as both technical leader and manager. You are an experienced software developer with a mind for systems architecture. You help define and evangelize software engineering best practices and processes. You are a seasoned people manager, who enjoys mentoring and cares deeply about the growth of your team members. You have a track record delivering robust technology in collaboration with Product managers. 

Qualifications:

• You have 10+ years of professional software development experience, including front-end and back-end 
• You have technical leadership experience, specifically in agile environments
• You are a natural collaborator, adept at leading brainstorms, whiteboard sessions as well as pair programming
• You have designed complex, distributed systems such as SOAs
• You have strong computer science fundamentals, as well as solid command of operational best practices (e.g. “clean” code, test-driven development, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, etc…)
• You have experience people-managing software engineers
• You are a dedicated coach who leads with empathy and thrives by helping people perform and grow
• You are an excellent technical and cross-functional communicator

Preferred Qualifications:

• Your language of choice is Python
• AWS is your cloud platform of choice
• You have data engineering experience
• You have DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure experience