Senior Staff Software Engineer, Liftoff Influence

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 Liftoff

At Liftoff, we’re helping mobile businesses scale and succeed via our sophisticated technology that enables them to find their most engaged users. We are a trusted guide for growth and engagement, transforming how people discover and experience apps. Advertisers depend on us to reach, acquire, and retain high-value users worldwide. We are one of the world’s largest independent, unbiased and privacy-friendly growth platforms that fuels the entire mobile app growth cycle across user acquisition, engagement, monetization, and analytics. Consistently ranked as one of the fastest growing companies and best places to work, we are a profitable company with strong product-market fit and tremendous growth opportunity. We have a creative, collaborative, and humble culture. We are data-driven, proactive, and have the courage to drive change.

At Liftoff Influence, we are helping build the creator economy by providing creators with the tools they need to grow, monetize and thrive in the digital advertising ecosystem. Today, this means building a best-in-class platform that provides creators with monetization opportunities and content development tools to drive long-term growth and performance outcomes for our advertising partners.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the development and improvements within our data architecture, including database structures via Postgres and big data technologies such as BigQuery for data warehousing
• Lead cross-functional integration efforts with engineering teams across Liftoff, working closely with colleagues in product, design, and operations to develop and launch new features, services, and data integrations
• Learn and master our systems to a high level of proficiency
• Take the lead on our most complex initiatives and launches
• Develop and maintain automated reporting and visualization tools to provide insights into business performance, and work with stakeholders to identify opportunities for optimization and growth
• Lead efforts to prioritize and address technical debt across our systems, and develop and implement strategies for debt reduction and prevention
• Work with stakeholders to identify and prioritize data system requirements, and develop and implement solutions that meet these requirements while scaling effectively.
• Lead efforts to optimize system performance, including identifying and addressing bottlenecks, reducing latency, and improving system reliability and stability.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers, providing guidance and support to help them grow their skills and expertise.

Key Requirements:

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field and 12+ years of engineering experience (or Master’s Degree with 8+ years of experience), with at least 1 year of management experience.
• Demonstrated track record of success at high-growth startups, with experience scaling to 100+ employees.
• High level of proficiency with SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and experience with frontend frameworks such as React.
• Strong expertise in developing and implementing complex data architectures, as well as a deep understanding of big data technologies and best practices.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Experience with performance tuning, profiling, and debugging of complex systems, as well as experience with testing frameworks.

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!

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, gende