Senior Software Engineer - Campaigns and Attribution

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Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience with some of the primary technologies: Ruby on Rails, MySQL/PostgreSQL, and HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
• Familiarity with queueing systems like Kafka/RabbitMQ.
• Familiarity with NoSQL data stores (we use Redis).
• Proficiency at removing roadblocks for complex tasks.
• In-depth knowledge in one or more areas or features sets.
• Awareness of industry best practices and trends.
• Competence in several skills apart from pure coding, such as monitoring, performance optimization, integration testing, security, visual design and more.
• Recognition as a very capable engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Write high-quality code.
• Operate independently on complex tasks.
• Be a technical expert in an area or feature set.
• Have end-to-end responsibility for projects of increasing complexity.
• Identify and suggest areas of future work and back up suggestions with evidence.
• Identify and mitigate risk in the development cycle, from ideation to delivery.
• Keep leaders up-to-date on progress, blockers, and potential surprises.
• Diagnose the root cause of problems for any service area owned by the team.
• Communicate on production issues, write actionable tickets without prompting, and quickly fix or delegate them.
• Use logic and reason to build cases for ideas, backed up by qualitative and quantitative evidence.