Senior Software Engineer

Company: Unified
Location: New York
Posted on: February 26, 2021

Job Description:

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 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 Experience working with GraphQL for querying APIs and serving relevant data Python TypeScript MVVM framework Vue.js Amazon Web Services CI/CD systems, e.g. Jenkins Experience with Atlassian software development and collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.) 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

Keywords: Unified, New York , Senior Software Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , New York, New York