Senior Software Engineer

  • $135k-$195k
  • Remote - United States

Remote

Software Development

Senior

Job description

Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.

Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.

The Attribution & Applications (A&A) team ingests and enriches attribution data that is a key component of Liftoff’s ML datasets and reporting systems. The team is responsible for keeping attribution systems current with industry privacy updates. They also create data applications. These tools help control traffic quality and manage campaigns.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and have end-to-end ownership of Liftoff’s attribution systems, including data processing pipelines, and high-performance services.

  • Build a deep knowledge of data that Liftoff collects to influence ML and data-driven applications.

  • Partner with the product team to plan short and long term strategy

  • Contribute to an “engineering excellence” culture through state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems, and code review.

  • Leverage your expertise in Go, SQL, or other technologies to empower and mentor the engineering team - maximizing team velocity.

  • Join a nimble, consistently exemplary, and skilled engineering team.

Requirements:

  • Very solid coding ability.

  • Solid core CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, architecting systems).

  • A high bar for quality and perfection, and the ability to temper it when necessary to ship.

  • Sets ego aside in pursuit of finding the best solution, no matter where it comes from.

  • Self-motivated and ability to get things done.

  • Excited to work on large scale distributed systems.

  • Excited to build and hone data-science skills.

  • B.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent) & 5+ years software engineering experience or M.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent) & 3+ years software engineering experience.

  • A healthy sense of fun!

Bonus:

  • Adtech experience

Locations:

This role is eligible for full-time remote work in one of our entities/states: CA, CO, ID, IL, FL, GA, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NV, NY, OR, PA, TX, UT, and WA.  We are a remote-first company with US hubs in Redwood City, Los Angeles, and New York City.

Travel Expectations:

We offer several opportunities for in-person team gatherings, including but not limited to project meetings, regional meetups, and company-wide events. We expect our employees to attend these gatherings at least once per quarter. These gatherings provide essential opportunities for collaboration, communication, and team building.

Compensation:

Liftoff offers all employees a full compensation package that includes equity and health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence. Base compensation will vary based on the candidate’s location and experience.

The following are our base salary ranges for this role:

  • SF Bay Area, NYC, Los Angeles/Orange County: $155,000 - $195,000
  • Seattle/Olympia, Austin, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Boston: $140,000 - $180,000
  • All other cities and towns in our approved states: $135,000 - $170,000

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Liftoff is committed to providing and maintaining a work environment where all employees and candidates are treated with dignity and respect and that is free of bias, prejudice, and harassment. Liftoff is further committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all employees and candidates for employment free from discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex, gender (including sexual harassment, gender harassment, and harassment due to pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender nonconformity, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, ancestry (including association, affiliation, or participation with persons or activities related to national origin, English-proficiency or accent, or immigration status), physical or mental disability, medical condition(s), genetic information of an individual or family member of the individual, marital or domestic partner status, age, veteran or military status, family care status, requesting or taking pregnancy, parental or disability leave, requesting an accommodation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance. All such discrimination and harassment is unlawful and will not be tolerated. Liftoff maintains a continued commitment to equal employment opportunity and expects the full cooperation of all personnel.

Liftoff’s Compensation Strategy

Liftoff’s compensation strategy includes competitive market rate along with equity and benefits and perks that will give our employees what they need to do their best work. In order to ensure teams are compensated fairly for the work performed, we map out specific levels and take into consideration the cost of labor within each location. Liftoff provides employees a total compensation package of competitive market salaries, equity, health and wellness stipends, medical benefits associated with your country of residence. The base compensation will vary based on location, experience as well as level.

Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:

Liftoff does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team. All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Liftoff vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Liftoff Recruiting Team and such a candidate was submitted to the Liftoff Recruiting Team via our Applicant Tracking System.

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