Sr. Backend Engineer - Activations
LiveRamp · New York, NY · 6 days ago
HybridEngineering$130k–$197k/yrFull-time
About the role
LiveRamp is the data collaboration platform of choice for the world’s most innovative companies. A groundbreaking leader in consumer privacy, data ethics, and foundational identity, LiveRamp is setting the new standard for building a connected customer view with unmatched clarity and context while protecting precious brand and consumer trust. LiveRamp offers complete flexibility to collaborate wherever data lives to support the widest range of data collaboration use cases—within organizations, between brands, and across its premier global network of top-quality partners.
Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively in a small team of engineers developing, maintaining and improving our products.
- Help shape the future of our technology platform.
- Infuse industry best practices into our team processes and development practices.
- Implement activation backend specific business logic, including matching, digest generation, delivery workflows optimization etc. for very large volumes of data while having strong focus on cost, performance and system stability.
- Drive architectural design and implementation of our systems and interfaces.
- Foster a positive environment of integrity, empowerment, initiative, and teamwork.
- Provide operational support for our team’s production systems.
- Work with your team and managers to shape your role into a convergence of the company’s needs and your own capabilities, interests, and desires.
- Help rearchitect our existing systems to provide a more powerful and flexible data delivery pipeline at scale.
- Demonstrate operational excellence supporting our production systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience writing and deploying high-quality production code.
- Solid Java or Scala (or Golang where appropriate) programming skills.
- 3+ years of hands on experience in managing and optimizing Big Data ecosystems such as Spark, Hadoop/MR, Kafka.
- Distributed Systems Expert: Proven track record of delivering end-to-end large-scale projects and contributing to the design of complex architectures.
- API Specialist: Deep experience building or consuming RESTful APIs, managing OAuth flows, and handling rate limiting/backoff strategies.
- Experience working with multiple teams to understand the requirements and develop solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to build sustainable technical solutions that verifiably meet specific, well-defined business requirements.
- Experience selecting and using industry-standard open source and/or commercial tools and libraries to solve specific problems.
- Experience with GCP or another cloud provider (AWS, Azure, etc.).
- Solid communicator in relevant technical and product concepts.
- Proficiency with Spring Boot.
Qualifications
- Experience with Distributed Databases (e.g. Singlestore) is a plus.
Skills
- Experience with RESTful APIs.
- Experience with OAuth flows.
- Experience with rate limiting/backoff strategies.
- Experience with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, etc.).
- Experience with Spring Boot.
- Experience with distributed databases (e.g. Singlestore).
Benefits
- People: Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.
- Fun: We host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues.
- Work/Life Harmony: Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.
- Comprehensive Benefits Package: LiveRamp offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you be your best self in your personal and professional lives. Our benefits package offers medical, dental, vision, life and disability, an employee assistance program, voluntary benefits as well as perks programs for your healthy lifestyle, career growth and more.
- Savings: Our 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—helps you plan ahead.