Senior Software Engineer
Engineering | New York, NY | Full Time
About Us:
Unified is a leading provider of digital advertising services and solutions powered by data and technology. Our proprietary technology is designed to change the business of digital advertising by helping brands achieve unprecedented marketing results. Unified provides expert Managed and Professional Services super-charged by innovative operations and insights platforms, as well as cutting-edge Data Management and Audience Insights solutions. With a range of offerings, we are able to create custom solutions for our clients, tailored to their needs and goals. Headquartered in New York City and with offices in Los Angeles and Atlanta, Unified has managed over $5B in advertising data for the world’s largest brands and agencies and run more than $1B in advertising campaigns.
For the last four years, Unified has been recognized by AdAge and Crain’s as one of the “Best Places To Work”. For more information, visit www.Unified.com or follow @Unified on Twitter. Unified is an equal opportunity employer.
The Role:
You’ll be expected to be a friendly, open-minded, and results-driven individual
You’ll be the first Senior Engineer on the R&D team working directly with the Director of R&D
Much of your time will be spent researching new technologies and architectures to support our rapidly growing business
While you will be trained, you will be expected to personally acquire new skills rapidly in order to evaluate new technologies
You’ll be expected to lead software engineers on cross-team projects, and write design architecture documents such as a project charter and high-level diagrams
You’ll be expected to be able to personally own projects to completion, and be available to help maintain and support projects, including training engineers on new implementations
You’ll be expected to speak up, let your opinions be heard, and be tolerant of others opinions even if you disagree
You’ll be expected to lead and mentor new Junior Engineers as they get onboarded
What you'll do:
Collaborate with independent technology teams using the agile methodology
Build interactive and intuitive UIs that solve complex problems and are a delight to use
Build data pipelines using batch and streaming frameworks
Contribute to robust APIs that pull from both graph and relational databases
Collaborate closely with a product team to plan, execute, and ship business critical projects
Write clean, maintainable, and testable code
Participate regularly in code reviews with your peers
Test your creativity at Unified hack-a-thons
Ship work you're proud of
Need to have:
5+ years experience of software development
Proficient in at least one, preferably statically typed, programming language
Strong understanding of Javascript and at least one frontend framework i.e. React, Vue, AngularJS
Experience building Javascript based web applications with HTML5, CSS, Node.js
Experience contributing to and integrating with REST APIs
Hands-on experience in writing complex, highly-optimized SQL queries in at least one of the common database platforms such as MySQL and/or Postgres
Experience running shell commands, e.g. OS X or Linux terminal
Experience writing unit and integration tests
Good architectural level understanding, the ability to see the big picture, and the ability to evaluate different approaches and tools and use instincts to make timely judgements
Excellent communication and teamwork skills
A cooperative, understanding, open, and friendly demeanor
A mindset of continuous improvement
Bonus experience:
Experience working with GraphQL for querying APIs and serving relevant data
Python
TypeScript
MVVM framework Vue.js
Amazon Web Services
Microservice architecture design principles
Graph databases, e.g. Neo4j
Columnar data stores, e.g. Amazon Redshift, BigQuery
CI/CD systems, e.g. Jenkins
Experience with Atlassian software development and collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.)
Agile methodologies
Social networks APIs, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
Data pipeline and streaming tech, e.g. Hive, Spark, Kafka, Kafka Streams
Experience with Git and Github, including Github Pull Request workflows