Senior Software Engineer, Digital Analytics | Remote-US

About IXIS
Founded in 2012, IXIS is rooted in innovative processes for data-driven customer experience and strategic planning. Our mission is to integrate and synchronize disparate data systems necessary to recalibrate and connect brands across converging media.

This is a full-time, remote position. We offer competitive compensation packages including health, dental, short-term and long-term disability and vision insurance, 401(k) with company match, flexible work schedules, wellness plan, and exceptional growth opportunities.

Overview
Our Data Solutions Team is seeking a world-class Senior Analytics Engineer, with experience leveraging leading-edge data technologies to deliver high-powered insights and advanced analytics. In this role, you will enjoy working with talented and diverse engineers who are passionate about trailblazing new-product innovation in the data-technology space.

Responsibilities

• Strong understanding of how digital analytics data is collected, transformed, and unified with other data sources in the process of digital identity resolution, profile enrichment, and audience activation
• CDP, visitor identity stitching/graphing
• Build and operate innovative customer-centric solutions using digital marketing data and technology
• Leveraging the AWS cloud platform and CI/CD tools, support and/or replace manual release and QA processes with automated solutions
• Provide and contribute to requirements analysis, systems design, development, unit testing, integration testing, and deployment of application and code enhancements
• Perform gap analysis, task breakdown, and project estimates
• Ownership of the audience build and push process with partner platforms such as LiveRamp, Sprinklr, and AAM
• Design, build and manage secure and efficient analytics data collection libraries and supporting tooling, promoting best practices around CI/CD and test-driven development
• Collaborate with engineering, data science, QA, and operational resources
• Learn about and share: new ideas, methodologies, techniques, and technology through mentoring, pair programming, and code reviews
• Mentor a team of software engineers with diverse experience levels and areas of expertise
• Lead Solutioning and Design efforts within the team and in collaboration with other teams, both internal and external to IXIS
• Support agile/scrum planning efforts at the increment and sprint levels
• Collect business requirements from clients, partner agencies, and internal stakeholders, translating them to functional requirements
• Support Scope of Work writing and estimation processes as a subject matter expert

Desired Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree  in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related area, or equivalent industry experience
• The ideal candidate will have a background in AWS ecosystem, have experience working with large data sets, and building analytics platforms
• Strong knowledge and experience of AWS cloud infrastructure compute, networking, storage, and other AWS cloud services like S3, EC2, EMR, SageMaker, ECS, Athena, Glued
• 7 years of professional software development/engineering experience, preferably including full stack web development
• Strong Javascript, Typescript, and Python proficiency required
• 5 years of experience with SQL
• 3 years of experience with Docker
• Relational database schema design competency
• Knowledge of practical design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Strong git and release management competency
• Competent in practical debugger usage (e.g. the debugger found in VS Code or Chrome DevTools)
• Design and implementation of unit and integration tests
• Core critical thinking skills, including good data intuition

Additional Desired Skills

• Tech lead, team lead, and/or technical project management experience
• Digital analytics tools including Adobe Analytics and Google Analytics, as well as various tag management solutions 
• Experience designing and implementing custom web analytics solutions
• GitLab, GitLab CI/CD
• Experience with data streaming using tools like AWS Kinesis or Kafka
• Experience with pandas and sqlalchemy Python libraries
• Experience with Puppeteer and/or Playwrite browser automation libraries
• Development experience in a Linux or Mac environment
• Experience with NoSQL databases