Job Description
We are on the look out for a Staff/Principal Engineer to join our AdTech tribe. Contribute to the creation of our next-generation platform, that helps our partners - such as restaurants but also local shops - to scale their business. Work on our internal AdTech platform that helps our partners to promote their best dishes and attract new clients. If you're a creative problem solver who is eager to deliver solutions and hungry for a new adventure, an international workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Berlin!
AdTech tribe is a geographically distributed tribe of 10+ squads. We are here to build high-available advertisement solutions for the local delivery market. Our solutions are helping our vendors to attract and retain clients as well as helping users of our platforms to open new tastes and find new favorite dishes. Our solutions are running globally from LATAM to APAC and serving out clients via mobile and web applications.
We deploy often and move quickly with self-sufficient cross-functional squads that work collaboratively according to the “we build it, we run it” principle. We optimize our solutions for high load and high reliability, high availability and low latency. We leverage microservices architecture principles and patterns, micro-frontends, inner-sourcing, batch and streaming data processing.
1. Be an active partner for Engineering and Product Management to provide the best value for stakeholders and our customers, define technical OKRs for the tribe and vertical
2. Drive cross-domain and cross-tribe architecture discussions and present tribe architecture in reviews, challenge the status quo and identify improvement points for individual components, as well as the system as a whole
3. Set standards for Engineering Excellence by leading by example and mentoring engineers (primarily Senior and Staff engineers)
4. Drive technological improvements (through RFCs or other tools), explain, discuss and align decisions paving the future of our solutions
5. Perform periodical reviews of reliability, load test confidence, cost efficiency and security commandments on the tribe level
6. Initiate and execute software delivery and technical improvements (, scaling, technical debt reduction) across the tribe and beyond, define tribe-level standards and tech strategy
7. Foster knowledge sharing across the entity/vertical, promote and introduce best practices to continuously improve teams performance and developers' experience
8. Contribute to the tribe org design, ensuring teams are aligned to a flow of work, and there is a right balance of enabling/platform teams to ensure the org design can scale
Qualifications
9. 12+ years of experience building and delivering software solutions, including distributed systems based on microservices, API- and event-based communication, data processing (streaming and batch)
10. Knowledge of programming languages such as Golang and Python
11. Knowledge of storage systems such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis
12. Knowledge of AWS and GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as a code
13. Understanding of monitoring tools such as Kibana, Prometheus, and DataDog
14. Experience with cloud cost optimization
15. Ability to lead and drive technical initiatives across multiple teams
16. Significant and proven experience building and delivering solutions at scale
17. Deep understanding of software architecture, scalability and reliability
18. You are pragmatic and focused on empowering others
19. Ability to work independently as well as in a group.
20. Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, ability to communicate technical topics and architecture design using both written and visual communication to tech-savvy and non-tech-savvy stakeholders
Nice to Have:
21. Knowledge of frontend and mobile technologies, experience with delivering client-facing applications
22. Experience with cloud cost optimization
23. Active blog writer, meet-ups/conferences speaker, open-source contributor