Senior Software Engineer – BackEnd, PromoteIQ

Microsoft Advertising

PromoteIQ provides intelligent vendor marketing solutions for the next generation of e-commerce. Our platform helps retailers implement, automate, and scale their brand-funded digital vendor marketing programs. We sit at the intersection of marketing and e-commerce and have a singular mission of empowering retailers and brands to maximize their e-commerce performance.

We embody a strong startup culture that values diversity, collaboration and craftsmanship - and above all else, results. Our bias towards execution balances critical thinking, root analysis and pragmatic problem solving. We expect a lot from one another and value our thoughtful and intellectually curious company culture.

Microsoft Advertising PromoteIQ is headquartered in New York City and supports a global footprint of e-commerce retailers and brands. The company was acquired by Microsoft in Aug, 2019 and continues to operate as an independent division within Microsoft Advertising. Learn more at https://www.promoteiq.com.

Microsoft Advertising is a worldwide Sales, Marketing and Services organization on the cutting edge of the digital advertising industry. Microsoft Advertising offers a compelling portfolio of advertising products, innovative solutions and the opportunity to engage with some of the brightest minds in the digital industry. Microsoft Advertising is the destination for experienced, collaborative, and passionate digital advertising professionals seeking a rewarding career and lifestyle.

Who We’re Looking For

We are hiring a Software Engineer on our backend teams to help expand our growing suite of e-commerce advertising products. Engineers on our team work together to build distributed services serving requests from around the world.

Team projects include everything from implementing customer facing Services at scale to internal Services that support our business.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new features and enhancements to our platform to meet our SLAs

• Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code

• Participate in design discussions about new features and ensure that they integrate seamlessly with other pieces of the platform.

• Work collaboratively and communicate effectively with engineering and product teams.

• Work in greenfield / R&D projects and take joy in experimentation.

• Help achieve timely and high-quality project delivery.

• Participate in an on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PHD degree in Computer Science or related technical experience

• Strong theoretical fundamentals including, but not limited to: data structures, algorithms, time complexity and space complexity, lock-free data structures, multi-threaded architecture etc.

• 6+ years of professional experience designing and building software

• 6+ years of experience building microservices/distributed systems and applications

• 5+ years experience in an object-oriented programming language [GoLang, Java, Python, NodeJS, C#, C++ etc.]

• Practical experience in Advertisement exchange, DSP, SSP is preferred.

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