Senior Software Engineer, Kargo
$150-180k
Mobile advertisement platform
Job no longer available
Mobile advertisement platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$150-180k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower advertisers to break convention and build connections with consumers on the most important screen today—the phone.
Role
Who you are
- You should be comfortable working alongside Engineering, Product, and Design teams to develop clean code
- B.S or higher in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics (or equivalent work experience)
- At least 5-8 years of experience working in the Software industry or a related field
- Strong portfolio (i.e. Github) demonstrating past work experience
- Strong knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle, including QA and deployment processes
- Experience reviewing other developers’ code and mentoring more junior developers
- Robust algorithms, data structures, and coding background
- Expert in either Go or C++ in large-scale systems
- Experience working in a Dockerized Kubernetes environment on AWS is a major plus
- Experience managing large scale data storage and processing systems such as Apache Hadoop, Aerospike, Apache Spark, and/or Apache Kafka
- Ability to take a loosely defined idea from the brainstorming phase to production, including the architecture plan, development, and testing process
- Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal, and analytical skills; the ability to communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively
- You are a seasoned software engineer who writes clean and effective code
- Your experience working with multiple language and frameworks helps you understand which is the right tool/language for whichever is the problem at hand
- You have a strong understanding of software design patterns and are able to clearly communicate guidelines and best practices that the whole team should follow
- You have strong analytical skills that help in identifying where and when to fix a bug vs when it makes sense to refactor the codebase to prevent similar issues in the future
- You have experience working on both frontend and backend, and understand how to architect a larger system
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for taking on a leading role in one or more of Kargo’s products and will be integral in mentoring and guiding others
- Ultimately, you will help shape and define our creative and collaborative processes and will follow a best practice approach to producing high-performing products
- You are expected to be able to work with other team members to fix and deploy any bugs or features that come your way, as well as to set Best Practices and help improve upon the way we build products
- You will participate in architecture planning, code reviews, and learning sessions to help spread knowledge
- You will identify and initiate investigations into new technologies, prototype and test solutions for product features, and design and validate production designs that deliver exceptional user experiences
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, by facilitating personalized, 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 media for the advertising provider, which already has a firm grip on both mobile and desktop advertising platforms. On top of that, 2025 funding is being used for R&D of new AI-powered products and to broaden market reach.
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Insights
20% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Karry Kargman
(Founder & CEO)Experience as Corporate Business Developer for Intel Venture and Corporate Strategist for Intertainer.
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