Software Development Engineer - II

at  Kochava

Kochava provides a unified platform with solutions for mobile + CTV advertising and marketing technology clients. We serve the world’s top publishers and digital brands, and we set industry standards for secure, real-time data solutions. We help marketers establish identity, measure, and optimize their marketing across connected devices like smartphones, tablets, connected tv’s, and more, while enabling publishers to provide real-time, outcomes-based analytics to their advertising clients.
We enable the visibility into and management of billions of data points, millions of users, and hundreds of millions of dollars in lifetime value (LTV) and marketing budget. The Kochava platform(s) empowers our customers to see and manage their data and unleash the power of their connected audiences; Globally, Kochava is trusted by the largest brands across a wide spectrum of verticals, including media & entertainment, quick-serve restaurants, e-commerce, gaming, finance and more, to perform high-end marketing analytics.
We’re looking for a Software Engineer II to function as a central member of Kochava’s development team. The mobile user tracking and attribution market is challenging, dynamic, fun, and provides almost unlimited opportunities for personal and professional growth.
We are looking for dedicated team players who are comfortable with self-direction, and inspired by the thrill of building creative solutions to challenging problems. Several of our programmers are self-taught, a degree is not a necessity. A love of programming and ability to work in a team are.
Ideal candidates can work remotely from one of the following approved US states: California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Montana, North Carolina, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Washington or Wyoming.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 1+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience programming with at least one statically-typed software programming language.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 4+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Expertise in one or more of the following languages: Golang, Java, SQL Experience developing & deploying microservices in GCP and/or AWS.
• Design and utilization of strong data types.
• Knowledge of concurrency and multi-threaded code.

• Be a core member of the team creating leading edge attribution and analytics tools.
• Design and implement highly-available, fault-tolerant, real time, distributed systems.
• Balance a fast paced delivery schedule while ensuring quality and resilience.
• Maintenance, care, and optimization of legacy systems.
• Research, design, develop and test ingestion pipelines.
• Profiling and tuning CPU use, memory use, and I/O operations to optimize performance.
• Document new solutions and maintain existing documentation.