Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers, and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.
Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.
Position Summary
At Liftoff, the Supply Exchange Core team is essential to the success of our Publisher side business. Our team is dedicated to designing and building platform infrastructure that processes over a billion events daily, and we are rapidly expanding. We are a group of innovative engineers leveraging the latest technology to develop efficient and scalable systems. If you're passionate about building and scaling low-latency, high-throughput systems, we would love to speak with you!
Location
This is a remote-first role, requiring:
- Ability to work Pacific time zone hours.
- Willingness to travel to Orange County for in-person meetings 1-2 weeks per quarter.
Liftoff is a remote-first company with US hubs in Redwood City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Orange County, and NYC. Given that most of the team is based in Orange County, it would be beneficial for the individual to be located in the OC/Los Angeles area for regular in-person meetings at our OC office (Costa Mesa, CA 92626). Most of the local team meets in-office once per week. We are also open to candidates located on the West Coast who are willing to travel regularly (one week per quarter) to the OC office.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership and work with various product management, development, and quality assurance groups in a fast-paced environment.
- Focus on code readability, performance, testing, documentation, and continuous integration.
- Become familiar with core development, product release, and its business.
- Implement new features and streamline existing services.
- Minimize complexity and increase shared understanding.
- Share knowledge and best practices with team members.
- Participate in PagerDuty on-call rotation.
Qualifications
- BS in Computer Science with 5+ years professional experience; or MS in Computer Science with 3+ years of professional experience; or equivalent work experience.
- Proficient in at least one of the following languages: Golang (preferable), C/C++, Java, Python.
- Experience building low-latency, high-throughput, distributed backend services.
- Deep understanding of computer architectures, data structures, and algorithms.
- Knowledge of profiling and debugging distributed microservices.
- Experience building data-intensive applications.
- Experience with distributed system observability metrics, using it for data-driven design decisions.
- Good team communication and collaboration skills.
- Passionate about helping others and invested in the team’s success.
- Good at English (oral, writing, reading).
Preferred Experience
- Previous experience in ad-tech.
- Proficient in Golang.
- Experience with Redis, RocksDB, Mongo, Kafka.
- Experience with gRPC, RestAPI, GraphQL.
- Experience with ML, Tensorflow.
Liftoff offers all employees a full compensation package that includes equity and health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence. Base compensation will vary based on candidate location and experience. The following are our base salary ranges for this role:
SF Bay Area, NYC, Los Angeles/Orange County: $170,000 - $190,000
Seattle/Olympia, Austin, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Boston: $155,000 - $175,000
All other cities and towns in our approved states: $145,000 - $165,000
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Liftoff is committed to providing and maintaining a work environment where all employees and candidates are treated with dignity and respect and that is free of bias, prejudice, and harassment. Liftoff is further committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all employees and candidates for employment free from discrimination and harassment on the basis of various characteristics protected by law.
Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:
Liftoff does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team.
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