Senior Backend Engineer

Magnite; Belfast; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Magnite seeks a Senior Engineer to join their Marketplace Quality Engineering team in Belfast. This role involves designing scalable systems to enhance the integrity of their advertising platform, necessitating strong programming skills in Java and Python, coupled with substantial experience in software engineering.

Benefits

Holiday Breaks

Quarterly Wellness Days

Equity and Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Private Medical Insurance

Competitive Pension Plan

Disability and Life Insurance

Mobile Phone Subsidy

Fitness and Wellness Reimbursement

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience.
• Expertise with at least one statically-typed, object-oriented language (e.g., Java, C++, Rust).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, deploy, and manage systems that support marketplace quality needs.
• Work collaboratively with multiple, distributed engineering teams.
• Write production-ready code and tests that meet both system and business requirements.

Skills

Java

Python

SQL

Linux

Docker

Git

Tools

Java / Spring Boot

Postgres

MySQL

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Job description

Senior Engineer
Belfast, Northern Ireland

Hybrid Schedule (M/F remote, T/W/TH in-office

At Magnite, we cultivate an environment of continuous growth and collaboration. Our work impacts what millions of people read, watch, and buy, and we're looking for people to help us tackle that responsibility with creativity and focus. Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI) is the world's largest independent sell-side advertising platform. Publishers use our technology to monetize their content across all screens and formats including CTV / streaming, online video, display, and audio. Our tech fuels billions of transactions per day!

The Team:

Magnite is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Marketplace Quality Engineering team. This team designs, builds, and maintains systems that protect the integrity and transparency of Magnite's advertising automation platform and enable our partners to protect their brands. In this role, you will have the opportunity to design and implement complex and scalable systems that support trustworthiness in a fast-paced and ever-changing industry.

In this role you will:

• Design, implement, test, deploy, and manage systems that support marketplace quality needs across multiple Magnite platforms
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Work collaboratively with multiple, distributed engineering teams and business stakeholders
• Think and work creatively to design and implement solutions that are effective, efficient, reliable, testable, and scalable
• Write production-ready code and tests that meet both system and business requirements
• Participate and lead design and code reviews
• Support our work by responding to feature requests, bug reports, performance issues and ad-hoc questions

We're looking for someone with:

• 4+ years of software engineering experience
• Expertise with at least one statically-typed, object-oriented language (e.g., Java, C++, Rust)
• Java and Python experience (preferred)
• SQL expertise
• Experience and agility working in a command line environment on Linux, including tools like Git and Docker
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to work well in a distributed environment
• AWS experience is a plus
• A passion for solving technical problems and helping others do the same

Our current tech stack (Requirement 1

• Java / Spring Boot
• Python
• Docker
• JavaScript/TypeScript / React
• Postgres / MySQL
• Linux (both on-premise and AWS)

Comprehensive Perks and Benefits:

• Holiday Breaks and Quarterly Wellness Days
• Equity and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Family-Focused Benefits and Parental Leave
• Private Medical Insurance (delete if not UK)
• Competitive Pension Plan
• Disability and Life Insurance
• Mobile Phone Subsidy
• Fitness and Wellness Reimbursement

Company Culture:

We believe collaboration is essential to success. Magnite's hybrid schedule includes two days worked remotely (Monday and Friday) and three days on-site (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). Our offices provide lunches, beverages, snacks, training and development, and office events to support your work week. We also understand you have appointments, families, hobbies, and other commitments. Magnite strives to maintain a healthy work/life integration for all employees so you can bring your best every day - both at work and at home.

Magnite Invests in You:

• Career Development Initiatives and a Career Growth Framework
• Culture and Inclusion Programs
• Bonusly Peer-to-Peer Recognition Program
• Community Service and Volunteer Events
• Company-Matched Charitable Contributions
• Mental Health Support

About Us

The world's leading agencies and brands trust our platform to access brand-safe, high-quality ad inventory and execute billions of advertising transactions each month. Anchored in bustling New York City, sunny Los Angeles, mile-high Denver, historic London, and down under in Sydney, Magnite has offices across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.

Our Commitment: We aim to incorporate a wide range of voices into our Magnite culture, cultivating an environment where employees feel welcomed, cared for, and encouraged to freely share ideas. We are committed to employee growth, collaboration, inclusion, and innovation. We invest in Magnite's local communities. We seek talent from all backgrounds to champion corporate values of seeing the big picture and being catalysts of change.

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