Lead Full Stack Engineer

About Ovative Group:

Ovative Group is the premier independent media and measurement firm in the United States. We help trailblazers in fast-growing, customer-centric organizations across industries reinvent their marketing and measurement programs. We leverage our media, measurement, and consulting capabilities to help brands like Domino’s, Facebook, The Home Depot, CVS, Disney, and UnitedHealth Group transform their media and marketing programs. Our proprietary approach to measuring and optimizing marketing investment decisions, Enterprise Marketing Return (EMR), is disrupting the industry and setting the gold standard for customer and marketing strategy, activation, and measurement.

Recognized eight consecutive years on Star Tribune’s list of Top 150 Workplaces and five years on Inc. 5000’s list of the fastest-growing private companies in America, we pride ourselves in always overdelivering for our clients, our teams, and our communities.

About the Role:

We are seeking a Lead Full Stack Engineer to join our rapidly growing product and engineering development team. Our company specializes in enterprise-level media measurement and optimization across various industries. In this role, you will take a leadership position within a cross-functional team responsible for creating, optimizing, and maintaining scalable software and data solutions to enhance performance, stability, and scalability. You will play a pivotal role in guiding the team and working closely with stakeholders throughout the entire software development lifecycle, from concept to deployment.

The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in iterative development practices, deep knowledge of version control (e.g., GitHub), and both conceptual and pragmatic problem-solving skills. Your outstanding attention to detail and strong written and oral communication skills will enable you to work directly with a variety of users, understanding their objectives and translating them into technical requirements and solutions. You will have the opportunity to mentor junior team members, contribute to innovative ideas, and drive the adoption of cutting-edge technologies within the team and foster your own professional growth.

Responsibilities of a Lead Full Stack Engineer:

• Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of scalable software solutions that meet business and technical goals, and drive significant business impact.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers and product managers to understand business goals, gather requirements, and translate into detailed, actionable technical requirements.
• Create technical specifications, oversee code reviews, and assist in resolving urgent application issues in and outside business hours.
• Innovate and maintain product quality in partnership with development partners, including prototyping and rapidly iterating solutions for viability and scalability.
• Uphold code quality and standards while managing data integrity risks through efficient QA strategies.
• Champion process improvements, implementing methodologies that enhance team efficiency, code quality, and overall project outcomes.
• Research, write and edit documentation and technical requirements, including software designs, evaluation plans, test results, technical manuals and formal recommendations and reports. Lead discussions with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Lead, mentor, and develop diverse technical talent, ensuring equitable opportunities and a culture of inclusion and respect, thereby inspiring and motivating all team members.
• Participate in our talent acquisition and training programs, striving to build and maintain a diverse and inclusive team.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning to keep your team current with emerging technology and software engineering trends.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of relevant web application development experience.
• Expert in one or more object-oriented languages (e.g., Python, Java, C#).
• Expert in data structures and design patterns.
• Expert working with relational databases.
• Highly proficient with microservices.
• Highly proficient with testing best practices (e.g., unit, integration, smoke).
• Highly proficient in building and deploying containerized application code.
• Highly proficient with cloud-based platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Highly proficient with DevOps & CI/CD.
• Highly proficient in technical thought leadership at an enterprise scale.

Preferred:

• Experience working with big data.
• Experience with iterative development.
• Experience in the digital marketing and analytics space.
• Experience working with business users to understand goals and gather requirements.

Pay Transparency:

At Ovative, we offer a transparent view into three core components of your total compensation package: Base Salary, Annual Bonus, and Benefits. The salary range for this position below is inclusive of an annual bonus. Actual offers are made with consideration for relevant experience and anticipated impact. Additional benefits information is provided below.

For our Sr. Manager positions, our compensation ranges from $111,000 to $186,000, which is inclusive of a 25% bonus.

Benefits of Working at Ovative Group:

We provide strong, competitive, holistic benefits that understand the importance of your life inside and out of work.

Culture:

Culture matters and we’ve been recognized as a Top Workplace for eight years running because of it. We demand trust and transparency from each other. We believe in doing the hard and complicated work others put off. We’re open in communication and floor plan. We’re flat – our interns sit next to VPs, our analysts work closely with senior leaders, and our CEO interacts with every single person daily. Put together, these elements help foster an environment where smart people can support each other in performing to their highest potential.

Compensation and Insurance:

We strive to hire and retain the best talent. Paying fair, competitive compensation, with a large bonus incentive, and phenomenal health insurance is an important part of this mix.

We’re rewarded fairly and when the company performs well, we all benefit.

Tangible amenities we enjoy:

• Access to all office spaces in MSP, NYC, and CHI.
• Frequent, paid travel to our Minneapolis headquarters for company events, team events, and in-person collaboration with teams.
• Flexible paid vacation policy.
• 401k match program.
• Top-notch health insurance options.
• Monthly stipend for your mobile phone and data plan.
• Sabbatical program.
• Charitable giving via our time and a financial match program.
• Shenanigan’s Day.

Working at Ovative won’t be easy, but if you like getting your hands dirty, driving results, and being surrounded by the best talent, it’ll be the most rewarding job you’ll ever have. If you think you can make us better, we want to hear from you!