Software Engineer - Unified

Job Description

The Role:

We are looking for a full-stack engineer with a demonstrated track record of developing and maintaining production services, innovative thinking, and technical excellence. This role will be a mixture of technical design, individual contribution, and thorough testing.

You will be part of our fast-paced, innovative team of engineers who engage in full stack development of features involving building delightful front-end experience as per our design specifications to building microservices and designing data stores for the backend.

You are flexible with languages and tools and willing to learn whatever is necessary to get the job done.

Collaborate with our product and design teams to understand pain points and build solutions. Help maintain a high level of engineering quality.

You build collective ownership amongst the team by contributing to code reviews, designs, and whiteboarding.

What you'll do:

• Gain valuable experience at a rapidly growing big data company

• Collaborate with independent technology teams using the agile methodology • Build interactive and intuitive UIs that solve complex problems and are a delight to use • Building new, efficient, and scalable front-end applications

• Contribute to robust APIs that pull from both graph and relational databases • Collaborate closely with a product team to plan, execute, and ship business-critical projects • Practice and enforce disciplined software engineering (writing tests, code reviews, and pair programming)

• Discuss and distribute knowledge, technical concepts, and ideas with any member of our diverse organization

• Test your creativity at Unified hack-a-thons

• Ship work you're proud of

Need to have:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience • 2.5+ years experience of designing and building successful customer facing web applications • Proficient in at least one, preferably statically typed, programming language i.e. (Java, Python, Golang)

• Strong understanding of Javascript and at least one frontend framework i.e. React, Vue, AngularJS

• Experience building Javascript based web applications with HTML5, CSS, Node.js • Experience contributing to and integrating with REST APIs

• Hands-on experience in writing complex, highly-optimized SQL queries in at least one of the common database platforms such as MySQL and/or PostgreSQL

• Experience running shell commands, e.g. OS X or Linux terminal

• Experience writing unit and integration tests

• Good architectural level understanding, the ability to see the big picture, and the ability to evaluate different approaches and tools and use instincts to make timely judgements • Excellent communication and teamwork skills

• A cooperative, understanding, open, and friendly demeanor

• A mindset of continuous improvement

• Experience with Git and Github, including Github Pull Request workflows

Bonus experience:

• Experience working with GraphQL for querying APIs and serving relevant data • Global UI state management with Apollo and React Apollo

• NPM and JavaScript build tools, e.g. Babel, Webpack, Browserify

• Python, TypeScript

• MVVM framework Vue.js

• Knowledge and experience designing solutions with cloud-native AWS Cloud services • Microservice architecture design principles

• Graph databases, e.g. Neo4j

• Columnar data stores, e.g. Amazon Redshift, BigQuery

• CI/CD systems, e.g. Jenkins

• Experience with Atlassian software development and collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.) • Agile methodologies

• Social networks APIs, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

• Data pipeline and streaming tech, e.g. Hive, Spark, Kafka, Kafka Streams

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About Us:

Unified is a leading provider of digital advertising services and solutions powered by data and technology. Our proprietary technology is designed to change the business of digital advertising by helping brands achieve unprecedented marketing results. Unified provides expert Managed and Professional Services super-charged by innovative operations and insights platforms, as well as cutting-edge Data Management and Audience Insights solutions. With a range of offerings, we are able to create custom solutions for our clients, tailored to their needs and goals. Headquartered in New York City and with offices in Los Angeles and Atlanta, Unified has managed over $5B in advertising data for the world’s largest brands and agencies and run more than $1B in advertising campaigns.

For more information, visit www.Unified.com or follow @Unified on Twitter. Unified is an equal opportunity employer.