Senior software Engineer (contract)

Verve; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Talented engineers

Large scale data

Empowering environment

Ownership and impact

Multicultural team

Job summary

Verve in the United States is seeking a software engineer to help build backend, data, and ML solutions at scale. You will design APIs, microservices, and data storage solutions while ensuring security and performance across systems.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Software, Data and ML engineers, and engage with product managers and ad traders to deliver impactful features that power Verve's advertising platform.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering products across backend, data, and ML stacks.
• Experience building high-performance distributed systems.
• Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems.
• A degree in a relevant field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering).

Responsibilities

• Produce quality code and raise the bar for team performance.
• Design and develop scalable, maintainable, and secure software architecture for backend systems, including APIs, microservices, and data storage solutions.
• Ensure performance, scalability, and security, while continuously optimising and updating architecture to incorporate new technologies and best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of Software, Data and ML engineers.
• Communicate regularly with product managers and business stakeholders such as ad traders.

Skills

Backend development

Data engineering

ML systems

Distributed systems

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Spark/PySpark

Kafka

Postgres

Redis

Elasticsearch

Grafana

Kibana

Nginx

TypeScript/Node.js

Terraform

ArgoCD

Job description

Who We Are

Verve has created a more efficient and privacy-focused way to buy and monetize advertising. Verve is an ecosystem of demand and supply technologies fusing data, media, and technology together to deliver results and growth to both advertisers and publishers–no matter the screen or location, no matter who, what, or where a customer is. With offices across the globe and with an eye on servicing forward-thinking advertising customers, Verve’s solutions are trusted by more than 90 of the United States’ top 100 advertisers, 4,000 publishers globally, and the world’s top demand-side platforms. Learn more at verve.com.

Who We Are

Verve has created a more efficient and privacy-focused way to buy and monetize advertising. Verve is an ecosystem of demand and supply technologies fusing data, media, and technology together to deliver results and growth to both advertisers and publishers–no matter the screen or location, no matter who, what, or where a customer is. With 30 offices across the globe and an eye on servicing forward-thinking advertising customers, Verve’s solutions are trusted by more than 90 of the United States’ top 100 advertisers, 4,000 publishers globally, and the world’s top demand-side platforms. Learn more at www.verve.com.

Captify, part of Verve, enables brands to understand, activate and measure real-time intent across the entire consumer journey, thanks to its proprietary search intent dataset. Leveraging over 15 years of machine learning expertise, Captify’s AI technology ingests over one billion daily search events from open-web publishers and LLMs, transforming search signals into actionable audiences. Captify’s exclusive, first-party search intent data fuels pre-campaign strategy and audience development, multi-channel activation across quality and brand-safe inventory, and unique measurement and insights for the world’s biggest brands.

Tech Stack

Python, Scala, Java, Go, Kubernetes, Karpenter, AWS, GCP, Spark/PySpark, Flink, Databricks, Postgres, Redis, Aerospike, Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana, nginx, Typescript/Node.js, Terraform, ArgoCD

Statistics/ML/AI knowledge is a plus

What You Will Do

• Produce quality code and raise the bar for team performance
• Design and develop scalable, maintainable, and secure software architecture for backend systems, including APIs, microservices, and data storage solutions
• Ensure performance, scalability, and security, while continuously optimising and updating architecture to incorporate new technologies and best practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of Software, Data and ML engineers
• Communicate regularly with product managers and business stakeholders such as ad traders

What You Will Bring

• Experience delivering products across backend, data, and ML stacks
• Experience building high-performance distributed systems
• Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems
• A degree in a relevant field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering)

What We Offer

• Talented engineers, Large scale data, Interesting problems
• You will learn and evolve in an empowering environment characterized by entrepreneurial actions
• Responsibility, independence, and an opportunity to participate in projects that have a significant impact on Verve’s success
• Be part of a multicultural team that is bringing advertising to the next level
• Verve provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Verve provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Verve provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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