Senior Software Engineer, Bidder

Who we are:

Chartboost is the leading in-app monetization and programmatic advertising platform. We reach a global audience of over 700 million monthly active users and process over 90 billion monthly advertising auctions. The Chartboost SDK is one the most widely integrated mobile ad SDKs and through the Chartboost Exchange, Ad Network, DSP and other services, we empower mobile app developers to build businesses, while connecting advertisers to highly engaged audiences.

We need a developer who can think in terms of microseconds and nanoseconds rather than milliseconds. We are looking for a high performance developer to join a new team focused on development of our real-time bidder, one of the most exciting and important products within Chartboost. The system powering this product must deal with 100,000’s of requests per second at low latency while evaluating hundreds of machine learning models. Big O matters. There is a chance to write the code that controls millions of dollars in real time. It touches on high scale, low latency and competitive data science.  

Impact you will make:

• Responsible for design, development and testing of our core pricing engine
• Ensure performance and correctness of the bidpath
• Work effectively with other engineers, system architects, QA, and Operations teams to implement enhancements and issue resolutions
• Participate in technical discussions; come up with innovative ways to improve the product and process
• Troubleshoot issues with application, technologies, and infrastructure
• Continuously improve your technical knowledge
• Think creatively and work independently - collaborating with others as needed to maximize efficiency and throughput
• Deliver quality work on time while driving developer productivity across the organization
• You’re the type of engineer that appreciates clean code and has experience in writing unit tests to keep the utmost code quality
• Mentor junior engineers and exemplify a working style of best development practices

Who you are:

• BS in Computer Science or related field
• Excel at problem solving and algorithm development.  
• 3 years experience with several mainstream programming languages
• Experience with a high performance, low latency application
• You have experience working with Agile development

The following experience would be a plus:

• Golang and Python
• Machine Learning
• NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Bigtable, etc)
• Managing Cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP)
• Ad Tech

Perks:

• The opportunity to help continue to build a company with the founding team
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) - you will have a stake in the future success of Chartboost and Zynga
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance 
• 401(k) plan with match through Fidelity
• Catered lunches and fully stocked kitchens 
• Commuter Program
• Flex Vacation – personal time to refresh your mind/body/soul, spend time with loved ones and celebrate life events. There is no accrual or specific limit to the amount of time an employee may use

More about us:

We are proud of the product we've built and appreciate the impact it has on other people's businesses and lives. We want to be surrounded by people who are always finding opportunities to try something new and grow. We love data and anything that helps drive intelligent decisions and always design with the user in mind.  Sounds like a fit? Join us, and be part of the team that will change the future of mobile gaming!

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