Mid/Senior Level Back End Engineer, Sensor Tower
Ruby
Mobile analytics software
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Mobile analytics software
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To be the trusted source of mobile insights.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience as a software engineer (If you have lesser years of experience but have meaningful github contributions and other coding samples, this will be taken into consideration)
- Strong foundation in programming, algorithms, and software application design
- Solid understanding of RESTful systems and the principles of good API design
- You have an understanding of the basics of cloud environments, and ideally you’ve had some exposure to AWS
- Required: Ruby on Rails (or Python and willing to learn Ruby on Rails)
- Nice to have: Clickhouse, MongoDB, Sidekiq, TypeScript, React.js
What the job involves
- From efficiently scaling database operations to supporting the growing amount of data (tens of terabytes), we're looking for engineers that have the creativity and skills to gather meaningful data and insights
- As an engineer at Sensor Tower, you will make sure we're building the best possible products and features to support our users. In our lean and flat organization, you will also have a meaningful say in what and how we build out all aspects of our product
- Participate in the full development life cycle, including design, implementation, quality polish, and release
- Leverage your strengths and interests to work on full feature implementation from brainstorming the architecture design, all the way to the back end implementation and delivery to the customers
- Optimise endpoints that touch billions of rows in the database, by applying profiling to ruby code and understanding crucial performance details of ClickHouse queries
- Perform code reviews, and suggest improvements to tools and processes
- Work on challenging products like SDK Insights, where you not only need to develop a robust back-end, but also understand how mobile SDK teardown works
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Mobile apps have transformed most aspects of modern life, from shopping to banking to communication, and companies that wish to reach the modern consumer need to master this corner of the digital world. Sensor Tower supplies intelligence and analytics software for companies to gain insight into the mobile app ecosystem and make the most of their app offerings and digital adverts.
Sensor Tower leads the market in providing mobile app and digital advertisement market intelligence. It provides data on user engagement, ad impact, and trends in the space, so its clients can optimize their spending and discover opportunities for growth. Together, its products focus on every aspect of the app economy, from store behaviour to consumer trends, meaning it can act as an all-in-one centre of intelligence for its clients.
Sensor Tower operates in twenty-five countries and has experienced impressive growth in the last few years. The company acquired Pathmatics, a leading digital ad intelligence firm, in 2021 which has allowed it to expand its product offerings into the future. It also secured strategic investment in 2025 to support product innovation including gen-AI data enhancements.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2020
$45m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Aug 2013
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $46m
Company benefits
- A “hybrid” environment offering a choice between working in-office, remote, or a mix
- Company-paid Health Insurance to support individual and family health
- Wellness programs for physical fitness, mental health, and fertility planning
- Retirement savings accounts to support investment in your future
- Flexible Paid Time Off so employees can shape their time away from the office
- Stipends for office and/or gym setup and home internet
Company HQ
The Castro, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Alexey Malafeev
(Co-Founder)Also co-founded Level86.
Oliver Yeh
(Co-Founder)Former Senior Platform Engineer at Appboy.
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