Principal Software Engineer, Choozle
$150-180k
+ Equity
Self-service digital advertising software platform
Job no longer available
Self-service digital advertising software platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$150-180k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower brands to achieve their full commercial potential through digital advertising.
Role
Who you are
- Choozle is looking for an individual that is eager to grow with our Engineering team as we liberate marketers from complex advertising technology
- This position requires a highly motivated and focused technical individual who has a passion to build new and innovative adtech
- Outside of being an outstanding software engineer, candidates must have strong communication skills, technical project management experience, ability to mentor others, and enjoy working closely with subject matter experts in their respective fields
- You are insatiably curious and love to learn
- You have a passion for identifying and understanding the needs of our users and developing creative solutions
- You quickly break down complex problems into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, in order to get to solid resolutions faster
- You enjoy working in a fast-paced environment in an organization that is scaling up
- You enjoy working and collaborating with a team
- Deep knowledge of server-side technologies such as Golang, Node, Ruby on Rails, or equivalent
- 5+ years of demonstrated work experience with Golang
- Demonstrated work experience with meeting build standards; like code coverage minimums
- Strong knowledge of front-end technologies such as React, MaterialUI, Redux, or equivalent
- Deep experience with GCP (GCE, GKE, CloudSQL, Cloud Memorystore, VPC, CloudDNS, Operation Suite), Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Ubuntu 18/20, Docker, git, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Beanstalk, Nginx, MySQL, Firebase, Snowflake, ArgoCD, Vercel, Redis, DataDog, and AlloyDB
- Deep understanding of software best-practices including architecture and design patterns with a focus on security, performance, reusability, scalability, and extendability; specifically within a microservices architecture
- Experience with Postman, DataDog, SQL Optimization, FlywayDB
- Thorough understanding of Infrastructure Engineering technologies such as GCP/AWS VPC networking, TCP/IP, NAT, firewalling, VPN, cloud-based load balancers, storage, monitoring, security best practices
- Demonstrated work experience with a balanced portfolio of of DevOps technologies with some or all of the following:
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure as code
- Basic DBA knowledge
- Networking
- Messaging / Queueing System
- Thorough understanding of iterative software development methodologies, values, and ceremonies such as Agile
- Preferred, Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering/Computer Science or a closely related discipline and/or 7+ years of demonstrated experience in software development
- Bonus: experience with AdTech/MarTech
- Bonus: experience with design tools like Miro and LucidCharts
- Bonus: experience with LaunchDarkly
- Bonus: experience with Stripe Billing Systems
- Bonus: experience with LiveRamp Activation APIs
What the job involves
- As a Principle Engineer for Choozle, you will be responsible for delivering enterprise-level software solutions in a collaborative and rapidly changing environment
- Maintain and improve the health, stability and security of our revenue-generating, high-traffic production environments
- Configure and automate the provisioning of GCP resources
- Create and maintain monitoring solutions and instrument applications to provide insights into application performance and to understand emerging issues
- Continuously identify and methodically improve cloud infrastructure for all systems through best practices and continuous process improvements
- Enterprise-level full stack development; majority of work will be backend focused though
- Provide technical feedback, code reviews, and consultation to other engineers involved in system design or implementation activities
- Technical project leadership; drive the testing strategies and own the performance plans
- Build prototypes and determine level of effort, feasibility, and cost
- Provide education and mentorship for other engineers
- Create technical specifications and candidate architecture proposals
- Engagement with Executive team to provide technical feasibility, level of effort, and cost
- Collaborate regularly with cross-functional teams including all Media/Advertising teams (Ad Server, Web Engineering and Data Engineering) to build upon existing products, brainstorm creative solutions for new products, and to share technical learnings with each other
Application process
- Resume Review
- People Operations 30 minute Virtual Screen
- Manager Interview
- Team Interview
- Final Interview
- Deliberation/Contingent Offer
- Background Check
- Official offer
Our take
Choozle provides a self-service advertisement platform focused on providing display campaigns and multi-platform marketing to startups and enterprises alike. In addition to providing a purchase platform, the company also provides analytics tools to empower efficient operations and scalability.
A variety of self-service advertisement platforms have arisen that focus on display campaigns, multi-platform advertisement, or analytics, but Choozle has taken a unique approach by combining all of these. Furthermore, the company has flexible billing options starting from $99 per month, in an attempt to provide marketing solutions to businesses with varying budget sizes, thereby opening itself up to a greater number of differently-sized businesses.
In recent years, the company announced the promotion of Adam Woods to CEO, signaling a strategic move to evolve beyond a self-service platform. Woods aims to guide the company in executing omnichannel campaigns across programmatic, search, and social channels. As Choozle continues to collaborate with prominent clients, the company;'s trajectory under Wood's leadership signals a commitment to navigating the evolving landscape of programmatic advertising and addressing unviersal challenges within the new privacy paradigm.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2021
$15m
SERIES C
Nov 2017
$6m
SERIES B
Total funding: $29.2m
Company benefits
- Self managed time off
- Healthcare, dental & vision coverage
- 401k Plan with employer match program
- Hybrid or remote workforce
- Quarterly education stipend
- Stock options
- Health & wellness stipend
- Team lunches
- Company retreats
- Paid volunteering
- Employer HSA contributions
- Employer paid life insurance & long term disability
- Paid parental leave
- Pet insurance
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Connectivity stipend
- Employee referral bonus
- 12 paid holidays (1 floating holiday)
Company HQ
Central Business District, Denver, CO
Leadership
Andrew Fischer
(Co-Founder)Began their career as an Account Executive at L90 and Multex, before roles at IAC, Passenger, and RGM Alliance. Having co-founded Flare Pistol Media in 2011, they co-founded Choozle in January of the following year.
Jeffrey Finch
(Co-Founder & CPO)Founded Flare Pistol Media with Andrew in September 2011, where they still serve as Principal. In January 2012, they both co-founded Choozle together.
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