Senior Software Engineer, Application (Fullstack 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 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 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 i