Senior Backend Engineer, Gener8 Ads
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Data privacy, control & advertising software
Job no longer available
Data privacy, control & advertising software
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
+ Stock options
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To be amongst the world's first brands that enable people to control and monetise their data.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years commercial experience building systems with Go
- Experience writing RESTful APIs in production environments
- Experience using some flavour of SQL for data persistence
- Experience documenting APIs with Swagger / Open API
- Experience working with event driven systems
- Experience building cloud native solutions
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced backend engineer, working on the core technology that powers our platform
- Extending, improving and optimising our analytics APIs that ingest over 100 million events a month
- Creating new data feeds for our commercial partners that deliver valuable data to drive business decisions
- Creating brand new APIs and endpoints to support our mobile apps
- Working on our e-Receipt data pipeline that extracts purchase data from emails and transforms into structured data
- You’ll be working closely with our existing product and engineering team, including Staff backend engineer and Head of Engineering
- On the backend we use Go, PostgreSQL and Redis to serve RESTful and gRPC APIs running on Kubernetes, all hosted on GCP
- Building new features, modifying existing ones and fixing bugs as they arise
- Writing automated tests to keep the quality of our products high
- Ensuring the smooth operation of our infrastructure through automated monitoring and alerting
- Documenting the backend APIs that are consumed by the engineering team
- Working closely with the product team to refine new features and requirements
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Gener8 Ads is trying to simultaneously give companies and media agencies access to better advertising leads, while giving public users more control over – and the chance to profit from – their own data.
The company offers internet users a range of products including a browser, app, and existing browser extension, in which they can elect to share their anonymised data in return for redeemable rewards or simply browse in total privacy. The appeal for advertisers is the promise of a more personal approach, reaching only those who would be interested in their products.
Amidst all the noise surrounding data privacy, Gener8’s solution is a clever one. Indeed, the company gained immense traction after an appearance on BBC’s Dragons’ Den which went viral, and was hailed the show’s best ever pitch. Unsurprisingly, the TV appearance led to a successful funding round, which helped the company to accelerate growth. Further funds have also been secured that will support the launch of Gener8's app as it looks to disrupt the big tech giants.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2024
$2.5m
ANGEL
Mar 2023
$6m
ANGEL
Total funding: $11.1m
Company benefits
- Be part of a fast growing company where you will have real responsibility and autonomy
- Stock options, so that you have a slice of the company and share in our success
- Your choice of computer hardware
- Annual training and conference budget
- Regular team days out
- Hybrid & remote working options
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Sam Jones
(Founder)Spent seven years at Red Bull including a spell as Global Brand Manager. Prior to this they founded nightclub promotional company 212 and nightclub ticketing app Hit The Town.
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