Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack

About Unified

Unified is a leading provider of social advertising services and solutions powered by data and technology. Our proprietary technology is designed to change the business of social by helping brands achieve unprecedented social marketing results. Unified provides expert Managed and Professional Services super-charged by innovative operations and insights platforms, as well as cutting-edge Data Management and Audience Insights solutions. With a range of offerings, we are able to create custom solutions for our clients, tailored to their needs and goals. Headquartered in New York City and with offices in Los Angeles and Atlanta, Unified has managed over $5B in social advertising data for the world’s largest brands and agencies and run more than $1B in social advertising campaigns.

For the last four years, Unified has been recognized by AdAge and Crain’s as one of the “Best Places To Work”. For more information, visit www.Unified.com or follow @Unified on Twitter. Unified is an equal opportunity employer.

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The Role:

We are looking for a full stack senior software engineer with a demonstrated track record of developing and maintaining production services, innovative thinking, and technical excellence. This role will be a mixture of technical design, individual contribution, and thorough testing. You will be part of our fast paced, innovative team of engineers who engage in full stack development of features involving building delightful front-end experience as per our design specifications to building microservices and designing data stores for the backend. You are flexible with languages and tools and are willing to learn whatever is necessary to get the job done. Collaborate with our product and design teams to understand pain points and build solutions. Help maintain a high level of engineering quality. Self-motivator, who can work independently, able to learn quickly, meets deadlines and demonstrates problem-solving skills. Excellent communicator and collaborator; able to work effectively with both technical and non-technical teams, including building internal documentation.

What you'll do:

● Build interactive and intuitive UIs that solve complex problems and are a delight to use ● Building new, efficient, and scalable front-end applications

● Contribute to robust APIs that pull from both graph and relational databases ● Practice and enforce disciplined software engineering (writing tests, code reviews, and pair programming)

● Own initiatives from architecture, design, execution to deployment

● Be innovative when coming up with technical solutions that deliver business value ● Assess and drive adoption of emerging technologies and techniques

● Provide technical leadership, including system design, code review, coaching team on skill development

● Discuss and distribute knowledge, technical concepts, and ideas with any member of our diverse organization

● Work closely with cross-functional teams of data and backend engineers, analysts, devops and product managers

● Work in an agile development environment and collaborate with multiple teams while experimenting with new technologies helping create solutions that puts Unified on cutting edge

Need to have:

● Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience ● 4+ years experience of designing and building successful customer facing web applications

● Proficient in at least one, preferably statically typed, programming language i.e. (Java, C++, Golang, Python)

● Strong understanding of Javascript and at least one frontend framework i.e. React, Vue, AngularJS

● Experience building Javascript based web applications with HTML5, CSS, Node.js ● Experience contributing to and integrating with REST APIs

● Hands-on experience in writing complex, highly-optimized SQL queries in at least one of the common database platforms such as MySQL and/or PostgreSQL

● Experience running shell commands, e.g. OS X or Linux terminal

● Experience writing unit and integration tests

● Good architectural level understanding, the ability to see the big picture, and the ability to evaluate different approaches and tools and use instincts to make timely judgements ● A cooperative, understanding, open, and friendly demeanor

● A mindset of continuous improvement

● Experience with Git and Github, including Github Pull Request workflows

Bonus experience:

● Experience working with GraphQL for querying APIs and serving relevant data ● Global UI state management with Apollo and React Apollo

● NPM and JavaScript build tools, e.g. Babel, Webpack, Browserify

● TypeScript

● MVVM framework Vue.js

● Knowledge and experience designing solutions with cloud-native AWS Cloud services ● Microservice architecture design principles

● Graph databases, e.g. Neo4j

● Columnar data stores, e.g. Amazon Redshift, BigQuery

● CI/CD systems, e.g. Jenkins

● Experience with Atlassian software development and collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.)

● Agile methodologies

● Social networks APIs, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

● Data pipeline and streaming tech, e.g. Hive, Spark, Kafka, Kafka Streams