Principal Engineer

VDX.tv; India; On-site; USD 681 - 1,136; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Twice-yearly company summits at resorts

Paid transformational leave every 4-5 years

Additional paid week off every 5 years

Flexible hours

Work-from-anywhere policy

Focus on outcomes over hours worked

Strong emphasis on work-life balance

Job summary

An innovative global advertising technology firm seeks Principal Engineers to join their dynamic team. In this pivotal role, you will develop platform applications that empower users to manage and report on advertising campaigns. You'll tackle significant software and infrastructure challenges while collaborating with cross-functional teams. The firm champions a unique, flat organizational structure, emphasizing self-organizing teams and a work-from-anywhere policy. This role offers the chance to influence the future of advertising technology while enjoying a flexible work environment that prioritizes work-life balance and personal growth.

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in computer science and algorithms.
• Experience with designing and developing REST APIs and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Lead, design, and implement new APIs and services.
• Work on complex technical projects in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

Problem-solving skills

Software development

REST APIs

Microservices

Java

Multithreading

Concurrency concepts

Data streaming paradigms

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Master’s degree in engineering

Tools

Kafka

Job description

VDX.tv is a global advertising technology company with a 25-year track record of innovation. With 400+ team members distributed globally, we're pioneering a different way of working - one that emphasizes self-organizing teams, minimal hierarchy, and maximum impact. Our unique approach has resulted in exceptional team retention with an average tenure of 8.1 years - a testament to our distinctive culture and work environment.

The Role

We’re looking for Principal Engineers 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.

Key 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.

What we're looking for

• 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

What You Get

• Twice-yearly week-long company summits at all-inclusive resorts worldwide
• Every 4-5 years: 4-5 weeks paid transformational leave
• Every 5 years: Additional paid week off for you and your family to celebrate your tenure
• Flexible hours to accommodate global collaboration
• True work-from-anywhere policy (US or European time zones preferred)
• Focus on outcomes rather than hours worked
• Strong emphasis on work-life balance

● Remote-first, globally distributed team

● Flat organizational structure with emphasis on self-organizing teams

● No traditional titles or hierarchical reporting relationships

● Focus on outcomes and impact rather than positions or status

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Software Development