Principal Engineer, Kochava
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Data platform for growth marketers
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Data platform for growth marketers
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create a culture of customer-driven innovation and superior service to help top brands harness their data for growth.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for architects and hands-on builders who are highly attuned to the technical realities of building and operating high-scale systems for services and data
- You should have strong technical judgment and influential skills to facilitate discussions for business-critical designs
- The perfect candidate will be able to operate at the executive level as a key technical adviser
- They should be able to provide both architectural guidance and detailed technical direction while nurturing a continuous delivery culture
- 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
- Experience balancing strategic technical direction
- Experience presenting technical problems/solutions to non-technical executives to influence decisions
- Track record of creating software systems that scaled to millions of users globally or processed petabytes of data per week
Desirable
- Experience with one or more of the following tech stacks: VueJS, Go Lang, HTAP, Google Cloud, and Grafana
- Experience in the Adtech or Martech industry or experience building high-throughput, low-latency real-time data processing systems
- Experience driving R&D objectives to create intellectual property (e.g. Patents and Publications)
- Deep hands-on technical expertise in at least one major technical area: large-scale full stack development, building complex distributed systems, distributed processing of massive data sets
What the job involves
- Our Principal Engineers are both visionary leaders and hands-on builders. As Kochava’s most senior individual contributors, Principal Engineers work on our most challenging problems
- Principal Engineers are asked to venture beyond comfortable approaches to pioneer new spaces and inspire others as to what’s possible
- Serve as a technical leader on our most demanding, cross-functional projects
- Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions
- Fully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations
- Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices
- Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members
- Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience. You are a visionary leader, builder, and operator
- Balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices
Our take
Kochava’s mobile data attribution analytics platform allows advertisers and publishers to access and unify omni-channel data to optimize their marketing efforts. Since its foundation in 2011, the company has steadily grown into one of the market leaders in its industry, and now counts some major brands among its customers including Airbnb, Audible, McDonalds, and NBC.
The online ad industry was dealt a blow in 2021 when Apple changed its iPhone privacy protections, making it difficult to track ad performance. However, while many companies lost out, Kochava saw its revenue soar by developing new tools to continue gaining insights.
The company has also done well by partnering with in-game ad companies such as Anzu, with the in-game ads market alone expected to generate close to $15 billion annually in the coming years.
Given Kochava’s track record of quickly adapting to market needs and rolling out new solutions, as well as its footprint in the US, Europe, East Asia and Southeast Asia (where the tech industry is booming), a period of sustained growth looks pretty likely.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Social Events – summer party/holiday party, etc
- Medical & Dental coverage 100% paid premiums for employee
- Paid Parental Leave
- Long Term Disability
- Kochava Academy – Corporate Training & Development
- 401k
Company HQ
Sandpoint, Idaho
Leadership
Charles Manning
(Founder & CEO)Previously served as CEO/President of in-game community management tools company PLAYXPERT, before co-founding long-range UAV development company xCraft.
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