Lead Data Engineer, Kargo
$110-170k
OTE
Mobile advertisement platform
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Mobile advertisement platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$110-170k
OTE
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Kargo's mission is to empower advertisers to break convention and build connections with consumers on the most important screen today—the phone.
Role
Who you are
- You have proven expertise in owning, designing and maintaining large-scale, interdependent systems
- You have experience in planning deployment and leading a team to complete development on such systems
- You have mastery in Python and experience with building complex pipelines in Airflow
- You have proficiency in crafting SQL queries for Snowflake, with an understanding of cost and performance nuances
- You have experience with Docker/Kubernetes and the AWS ecosystem
- You have familiarity interacting with third party APIs within ETL pipelines
- You are familiar with Agile methodologies and have worked with Jira/Confluence
- You are comfortable communicating and presenting complex topics and plans to people in the organization, regardless of their technical skill level
- You are comfortable with requirements gathering, cross-team design brainstorming sessions, and ensuring consensus among stakeholders
- You have an innate drive to take initiative and ownership of projects, transform uncertainty into actionable strategies, and a deep-seated pride in delivering meticulous, high-quality work
What the job involves
- We seek a proactive Lead Data Engineer who thrives in transforming ambiguity into clarity.
- Your primary role will be to architect, design, and optimize the data structures and processes integral to enabling fast and accurate targeting.
- While maintaining a hands-on approach, you will also lead and mentor a dedicated team of data engineers, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable solutions
- Oversee a team of data engineers, ensuring adherence to high standards, project delivery, and continuous skill development
- Engage in deep-dive sessions with a diverse range of technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating business needs into actionable technical requirements in Jira/Confluence
- Collaborate with data vendors and our data partnership team to evaluate and onboard new datasets that will enhance our targeting abilities. You and your team will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable and cost-efficient data ingestion pipelines (Python, Airflow, Snowflake, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Spearhead the architecture, design and enhancement of our targeting solutions and workflows, ensuring quality, efficiency, and transparency of the processes
- Create comprehensive documentation detailing system architecture, interdependencies, data flow diagrams, and best practices for future reference and onboarding purposes
- Monitor data storage and processing costs, seeking ways to optimize without compromising on quality
Our take
The way in which advertisers reach out to their audiences has changed dramatically over the last decade, primarily due to the invention of the smartphone. Whilst mobile ads have existed since the beginning of smartphones, most rely on technology that was built for desktops, resulting in bad advertising and missed opportunities.
Kargo provides a mobile advertising platform for marketers and publishers, helping them to deliver better business outcomes by leveraging advertising technology designed specifically for mobile. The company achieves this by directly integrating optimized impressions from the best-performing publishers within its specialized supply, using tangible identity metrics to analyze and improve advertiser KPIs, and overall facilitating personalized and mobile-optimized advertising.
The company acquired Videobyte (a video advertising platform for Connected TV) in early 2023 to expand operations into the relatively young digital TV industry and its lucrative TV formats. Bringing video, publisher tools, and unique formats to Kargo's omnichannel, this acquisition indicates a diversification of mediums for the advertising provider, who already has a firm grip on both mobile and desktop advertising platforms.
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Company values
- Self Starter - Take initiative. Prioritize the best possible outcomes for our clients and our company. Work confidently and independently, anticipate and embrace challenges and learn from setbacks. Be the go-to resource for colleagues and clients
- Team Player - Work together. Trust, empower and champion each other to cultivate the best ideas and optimize performance. Listen actively, engage respectfully and share ownership and accountability. Be collaborative and inclusive in ideation, decision making and execution
- Innovator - Be brave. Challenge the status quo to make Kargo and its clients stand out from the crowd. Leverage unique perspectives to drive the company and industry forward. Be a change agent and thought leader and inspire others to do the same
Company HQ
Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
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Leadership
Karry Kargman
(CEO)Experience as Corporate Business Developer for Intel Venture and Corporate Strategist for Intertainer.
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