Staff Backend Engineer

Frequence is the only end-to-end platform for media companies and agencies to grow and automate their advertising sales and operations while integrating owned and operated media. Through its full-stack proposal, workflow, and campaign-management software, Frequence drives revenue with best-in-class tools to sell, optimize, and report omnichannel advertising campaigns.
Frequence is a Madhive Company. Madhive is the leading independent and fully customizable operating system built to help local media organizations build profitable, differentiated, and efficient businesses.
Learn more about how Madhive and Frequence work together here.
We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join one of our cross-functional Agile development teams. As a Staff Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in influencing and driving the technical direction of the team and the organization. You will own large, impactful features, tackle complex cross-functional problems, and collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to deliver high-quality, scalable, enterprise-level software systems.
In this role, you will be responsible for mentoring team members, breaking down complex problems into actionable solutions, and leading the strategy for solving long-standing technical debt or challenging engineering problems. You will help shape the technical vision for the team and guide the execution of critical initiatives with minimal guidance.
What you'll do:

• Own the design, development, and execution of large, high-impact features, ensuring they align with business objectives and technical requirements.
• Influence architectural decisions that span multiple teams and have significant company-wide impact.
• Identify, plan, and solve complex, cross-functional problems, driving solutions and aligning stakeholders across teams.
• Lead and coordinate the execution of complex feature launches and initiatives, removing obstacles to ensure teams can move forward efficiently.
• Act as a primary technical interface to product managers, delivery leads, and senior leadership, driving roadmap changes and advising on team-level systems and progress.
• Mentor and coach team members, helping them grow technically while fostering a collaborative and high-performing team culture.
• Strategize and set short to medium-term technical direction for the team, identifying key areas for improvement and creating actionable plans to address them.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to research customer challenges, new opportunities, and propose innovative solutions or proof of concepts.
• Drive execution and remove bottlenecks, enabling teams to make progress and achieve results.
• Facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing across teams, increasing the overall effectiveness of the engineering organization.

Who you are:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 7+ years of experience in backend or full-stack software engineering, with a proven track record of successfully delivering complex software systems.
• Expertise in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Go, C#, Java, Kotlin, Rust, etc.) and strong experience in systems design and architecture.
• Deep experience delivering SaaS software and a thorough understanding of the full software development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ability to influence architecture decisions that affect multiple teams, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Experience identifying and solving complex, cross-functional problems with minimal guidance.
• Proven track record of taking ownership of very large features or critical engineering problems and delivering them end-to-end.
• Strong mentoring and coaching skills, with the ability to inspire and elevate others on the team.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to interface effectively with product managers, leadership, and other stakeholders.
• Solid experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, and a strong understanding of data modeling, performance optimization, and system design principles.

Nice to have, but not necessary:

• Golang experience
• GCP experience
• Adtech experience

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Why Frequence?
Frequence is a dynamic, diverse, innovative, and friendly place to work. We embrace our differences and believe they fuel our creativity. We come from varied backgrounds and think that's important. Whether it's taking ideas from previous lives and applying them in different ways or creating something completely new, we are all trail-blazing team players who think big and want to make an impact.
We are committed to cultivating a culture of inclusion and collaboration. We welcome diversity in education, culture, opinions, race, ethnicity, gender identity, veteran status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
Please be advised that we will NOT be using third-party recruiting agencies for this search.