Staff Software Engineer, Moloco
Tech Lead
Machine learning-powered performance advertising solutions
Open for applications
Machine learning-powered performance advertising solutions
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses of all sizes to grow through operational machine learning.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years software development experience using one or more modern languages such as Java, Python and Go
- 2+ years of leadership experience in delivering technical projects with a small (5+) team of engineers
- Hands-on experience with large-scale distributed systems, from requirements gathering and design to implementation and production deployment
- Experience in building platforms for digital advertising or e-commerce applications
- Experience with cloud-based technologies (e.g., AWS, GCE, GCP, Beam, Spark, BigTable, BigQuery etc.)
- Experience working directly with customers with varying levels of technical knowledge, and translating ambiguous requirements into actionable roadmaps and technical solutions
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build and maintain cross-functional and customer relationships
- Willingness to travel as needed (up to 20% travel)
- Multilingual proficiency (fluency in English, French beneficial)
What the job involves
- Mocolo Commerce Media (MCM) is growing its engineering team to support our expansion in European Markets
- We are looking for an experienced engineer who can be one of the early leaders in our London hub
- MCM’s enterprise platform helps retailers of all sizes build and monetize their retail-media advertising business
- Our global-scale infrastructure handles billions of ad auctions everyday, while our cutting-edge machine learning (ML) delivers high performance for advertisers and quality experiences for retail shoppers
- The MCM engineering team is responsible for the foundational systems underlying this platform, including core ad-serving, campaign management, data infrastructure, and customer integrations
- Design, develop and operate an end-to-end enterprise platform that remains fast, reliable and secure at scale
- Build and maintain APIs and features for campaign management, ad serving, targeting, data ingestion and export, reporting and analytics, etc
- Provide technical leadership and guidance for a site-based engineering team to deliver on their roadmap
- Directly engage with customers to identify gaps, translate real world needs into engineering solutions, and deliver outcomes including legacy platform migrations, data connectors, bespoke features, workflows and analytics
- Contribute to the strategic vision of the platform, influencing technical decisions and long-term architecture
- Explore and prototype next generation features including those enabled by generative AI
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Moloco offers a cutting-edge platform that allows app developers and eCommerce marketplaces to fuel their growth through machine learning-driven advertising. Its suite of tools enables users to fine-tune campaigns, enhance user engagement, and broaden outreach, ultimately boosting profitability.
Positioned as the premier demand-side platform for ad performance across the open internet, Moloco has experienced substantial growth, securing significant funding and achieving Unicorn status in mid-2021. At the core of its Cloud DSP and Retail Media Platform lies a powerful ML engine leveraging deep neural networks (DNNs), facilitating automated, profitable, and scalable growth strategies for marketers.
Continuously evolving its flagship DSP with advanced features, Moloco consistently sets new benchmarks in ad spend. With expansion into retail media and MLaaS offerings, Moloco aims to democratize access to advanced machine learning capabilities for businesses of all sizes.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2021
$150m
SERIES C
Apr 2021
$20m
SERIES C
Total funding: $191.6m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health and wellness: Competitive health (100% coverage for you), dental, vision and life insurance for you and your family. In addition, enjoy membership to Calm, Headspace, Spring Health, as well as fitness and health reimbursements
- Professional development: $2,500 Learning and Development stipend annually to grow yourself professionally
- Food and snacks: Enjoy lunch on us. We bring lunch in for employees everyday, In addition, our kitchens are filled with healthy snacks and beverages for you to enjoy
- Paid parental leave: Our parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers have you covered when you welcome a new child into your family
- Unlimited vacation: We encourage team members to take time off to relax and recharge with our flexible paid time off policy. We also offer leave time for various reasons
- Financial benefits: We provide equity and generous retirement benefits that help you prepare for your future. In addition, home office setup and phone, internet and transportation reimbursements
Company HQ
Centennial, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Ikkjin Ahn
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer at O1 and Humanex, before spending 2 years at YouTube and 3 at Google.
David Sehyuk Park
(Co-Founder & CIO)Prior to co-founding Moloco in 2013, David spent nearly 7 years at Oracle Corporation as a Software Engineer.
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