We are seeking a Staff Back End Engineer to develop our customer-facing application, focusing on quality, business impact, and system stability. Responsibilities include designing and evolving distributed systems, mentoring teams, and implementing CI/CD in a cloud environment.
Powered by AI and machine learning, MotiveMetrics (SaaS) creates the optimal paid search environment guaranteeing the best ads show against targeted search queries. Through our Team + Tech ("People-Powered AI") approach, our platform dynamically creates and manages account structures, identifies and deploys new keywords, and generates winning ad copy automatically, at scale.
We are looking for a staff back end software engineer to work on our emerging customer-facing application. This engineer will be someone that cares deeply about quality, business impact, and stability of the systems they build. The projects we need this individual to work on are highly visible and customer-centric.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of industry experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages, such as: Python, JavaScript, Ruby, or Go
- 5+ years of experience designing, building, deploying, operating, scaling, testing, and evolving distributed systems
- 3+ years of experience as a mentor, tech lead and/or leading an engineering team
- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation, large scale automation and workflow management
- Experience using AWS including services like AWS ECS, Lambda & S3
- Experience with DevOps and CI/CD in a cloud environment
- Experience using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch, Elastic APM, Datadog, and/or Prometheus
- Experience writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), using tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, and/or AWS CDK
Nice to haves:
- Experience with Google AdWords, Microsoft Advertising or Facebook Ads
- Experience building Machine Learning systems
This is an excellent opportunity to join a well-funded technology startup to solve problems at scale in a fast-paced, growing environment.
Top Skills
AWS
Aws Cdk
Ci/Cd
CloudFormation
Cloudwatch
Datadog
DevOps
Elastic Apm
Go
JavaScript
Prometheus
Python
Ruby
Terraform
MotiveMetrics Palo Alto, California, USA Office
425 Sherman Ave, Suite 100, , Palo Alto, CA, United States, 94306
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