Senior Developer, Ad Signal

• The ideal candidate has many years of commercial experience solving problems in a secure, scalable and maintainable way
• Proven experience designing, building and maintaining applications with experience covering both frontend and backend
• Experience structuring codebases that are maintainable and easily understood. To follow and advocate for best practices and conventions along with the ability to coach and mentor other developers
• Experience with web frameworks (Rails, Django or similar framework)
• Experience in testing large complex applications using a test driven approach
• Experience in operating large systems (following an SRE approach or similar). Promoting observability and metrics lead approach to driving scalability and operational excellence
• Ability to reason with and create models that accurately reflect business requirements, and the ability to turn this into elegant and maintainable code. You should assess and implement the various dependencies, identify where they might lead to future issues, and mitigate them
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures and algorithms)

Desirable

• We are looking for experienced developers who get excited about building things no one has ever done before. We have unique business and scale problems to overcome, and we need some great problem solvers to tackle unique technical challenges
• We currently use Ruby on Rails for web facing services along with Python and Rust for lower level image and video processing pipelines. Our products are focused around deduplicating and gaining insight into video and audio content
• We are pragmatic about using the best tool to solve the problem at hand and candidates will be expected to take a lead role in building out our core technology stacks working across multiple languages and frameworks
• Our primary services have real time / near real time data streaming requirements. Having previous experience in video stream manipulation along with asynchronous data streaming are desirable additional key skills we are looking for
• Finally, we are very side-project friendly. If you have an Open Source project that you're working on, then we're happy for you to do so as long as it's not a competitor to our own product suite