Distinguished Software Engineer, AVP

***LoopMe is one of Campaign's Best Places to Work 2023 AND 2024!***

Our vision is to change advertising for the better. LoopMe’s technology brings together advertisers and publishers to redefine brand advertising for the digital and mobile app ecosystem.

With a diverse client base, including leading brands, agencies and publishers, LoopMe finds solutions to industry challenges.

The acquisition of Chartboost supercharges LoopMe’s mission, creating a globally scaled 1st party ad-tech platform built on patented AI.

What we need

We are looking for a backend engineering leader to join our Supply Side Platform(SSP) and Exchange teams to help us build the best advertising platform for mobile developers. You'll work on a system that processes hundreds of thousands of requests per second and conducts a real-time auction to find and deliver the most effective ads from our global partners. We trust our engineers to own this critical system and handle the full life cycle of feature development, from initial design all the way to shipping into production.

We have a few different systems that are written in Scala and/or functional Java and have plenty of opportunities to flex your distributed, low-latency programming muscles, using technologies like Vert.X, Kafka, and others. Our systems are currently deployed on Google Cloud Platform, with some legacy uses of AWS.

As a Distinguished Software Engineer you will…

• Design, build, evolve and drive understanding across the organization about our backend services and frameworks for our advertising ecosystem.
• Design and define APIs and developer facing tools that improve how teams across the organization ingest, process, and use data.
• Work effectively with other engineers, system architects, QA, and Operations teams to implement enhancements and issue resolutions.
• Lead technical discussions and come up with innovative ways to improve the business, our product and our processes
• Troubleshoot issues with applications, technologies, and infrastructure
• Mentor engineers across the team, raising the bar for code quality, testing, and software craftsmanship
• Think creatively and work independently - collaborating with others as needed to maximize efficiency and throughput
• Deliver quality work on time while driving developer productivity across the organization

You’ll have

• BS in Computer Science or related field
• 12+ years of programming experience
• 6+ years of AdTech experience (DSP, SSP, Exchange)
• A proven track record of designing and delivering large scale software systems
• You have a deep understanding of microservices and distributed systems with hands-on experience implementing them at scale
• You are experienced with software development in high capacity, high traffic, high availability websites/systems
• You have experience working in an agile environment

• Working experience at scale in Scala and/or Java and Kafka is a plus
• Background working with or building mobile ad tech SDKs and/or mobile games would be a bonus

What we can offer

• Bonus
• This role is hybrid, asking that you come into the office 3x a week (Tues-Thurs), you must be located in The San Francisco Bay Area (the office is in Union Square, San Francisco)
• Self-Managed Vacation policy (no max on annual leave!)
• 1 month work-from-anywhere
• Healthcare
• 401k
• Summer Fridays!
• LoopMe Gives Back; we have a committed and active CSR team who organise regular events to hold up our pillars of Learning, Charity, Wellbeing, Responsibility and Sustainability
• We’ll set you up for success, providing training and career development