About the job

We’re looking for an Engineering Senior Specialist for our platform apps. In this role, you’ll be part of a team developing the platform apps that engineering teams, business users, and customers utilize. The platform’s apps allow business users to set up, manage, and report campaigns with integrations to ad-serving and real-time bidding platforms.

Engineers at VDX.tv develop next-generation products that power our scalable ad tech platform. Our solution enables advertisers across the globe to reach out to their consumers and deliver effective, engaging advertising. We’re looking for engineers who are passionate about artificial intelligence, information retrieval, massive data pipelines, UI design, rich media frameworks, data insights, optimization, targeting strategies, and solving large-scale system design challenges.

You will work with a small team of engineers to solve software and infrastructure challenges across multiple platform apps. You’ll be expected to play an individual contributor role with high accountability, make a positive impact, and work well both as an individual contributor and a team player. The technical and cross-functional problems in this role require you to develop partnerships with other teams and understand their use cases.

Responsibilities

• Work on complex technical projects with peers in an innovative, fast-paced environment.
• Lead, design, and implement new APIs, services, and event-streaming pipelines.
• Improve, manage, and mentor standards for code maintainability and performance in code reviews.
• Evolve CI/CD strategy for deploying and maintaining the APIs and services across applications and multiple data centers.
• Work as a full-stack engineer, with a bias toward learning and adopting new technologies over time.

Qualifications

• Five to ten years of hands-on experience in software development
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with a strong foundation in computer science, including core data structures, algorithms, and analysis of running time and memory requirements
• Ability to develop scalable and reliable software for internet scale
• Ability to create prototypes and examples to demonstrate concepts
• Experience with designing and developing REST APIs and microservices
• Experience with developing and delivering production systems using Java
• Experience with multithreading and concurrency concepts
• Experience with Kafka and Data streaming paradigms
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases

Work Environment

• We are a remote-first organization. This role is in India, but you can reside anywhere in India.
• Our organization consists of about 450 people who are globally distributed.
• The average tenure at our company is 6.4 years. This compares to an average tenure of 2-3 years at all other advertising technology companies.
• Because we are a remote-first organization, we feel it is even more important to connect with your colleagues in-person and build strong relationships. As a result, we invest in a company-paid week-long summit every six months, at a destination that is conducive to work and enjoying each other’s company.
• All companies have variations of benefits and core values. We have strong benefits and core values as well. However, we believe people stay at VDX.tv because the work environment allows them to thrive and they feel connected to the organization, each other, and our purpose.
• Our team environment supports a healthy work/life balance.