Liftoff Mobile is hiring a
Software Engineer

Summary

Join Liftoff's Supply Exchange Core team as a remote-first engineer, designing and building platform infrastructure that processes over a billion events daily. The ideal candidate is passionate about building and scaling low-latency, high-throughput systems.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science with 5+ years professional experience; or MS in Computer Science with 3+ years of professional experience; or equivalent work experience
• Proficient in at least one of the following languages: Golang (preferable), C/C++, Java, Python
• Experience building low-latency, high-throughput, distributed backend services
• Deep understanding of computer architectures, data structures, and algorithms
• Knowledge of profiling and debugging distributed microservices
• Experience building data-intensive applications
• Experience with distributed system observability metrics, using it for data driven design decisions
• Have good team communication and collaboration skills
• Passionate about helping others and invested in the team’s success
• Good at English (oral, writing, reading)

Responsibilities

• Take ownership and work with various product management, development and quality assurance groups in a fast-paced environment
• Design, engineer & implement highly-available, fault-tolerant, distributed systems enhancing our real-time bidding system
• 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
• Share knowledge and best practices with team members
• PagerDuty on-call rotation

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in ad-tech
• Proficient in Golang
• Redis, RocksDB, Mongo, Kafka
• GRPC, RestAPI, GraphQL
• Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Github, CI/CD
• ML, Tensorflow