Technical Lead, Ad Signal

• We are looking for an experienced technical leader who gets excited about leading and empowering teams to build things no one has ever done before
• The ideal candidate has years of commercial experience in a leadership role solving problems in a secure, scalable and maintainable way
• Proven experience leading team(s) in designing, building, delivering and maintaining applications with experience covering both frontend and backend
• Experience with stakeholder management both internally and externally
• Experience owning processes that structure codebases in a maintainable and easily understood way. To follow and advocate for best practices and conventions along with the ability to coach and mentor other developers
• Experience with web frameworks (Rails, Django or similar framework)
• Experience in operating large systems (following an SRE approach or similar). Promoting observability and metrics lead approach to driving scalability and operational excellence
• Ability to reason with and create models that accurately reflect business requirements, and the ability to turn this into elegant and maintainable code. You should assess and implement the various dependencies, identify where they might lead to future issues, and mitigate them
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures and algorithms)

Desirable

• We have unique commercial and scaling problems to overcome, and we need some great problem solvers and leaders to tackle hard technical challenges
• We currently use Ruby on Rails for web facing services along with Python and Rust for lower level image and video processing pipelines
• We currently use Ruby on Rails for web facing services along with Python and Rust for lower level image and video processing pipelines. Our products are focused around deduplicating and gaining insight into video and audio content
• We are pragmatic about using the best tool to solve the problem at hand and candidates will be expected to take a lead role in building out our core technology stacks working across multiple languages and frameworks
• Our primary services have real time / near real time data streaming requirements. Having previous experience in video stream manipulation along with asynchronous data streaming are desirable additional key skills we are looking for
• Finally, we are very side-project friendly. If you have an Open Source project that you're working on, then we're happy for you to do so as long as it's not a competitor to our own product suite