Associate Software Engineer

Ibotta is looking for an Associate Software Engineer to join our innovative team and contribute to our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding by building something great with us. As part of the engineering team, you will work on the technology solutions that power our products that are used by millions of consumers. We're looking for a self-motivated engineer who has a real passion for building and running large-scale, fault-tolerant applications. Success in this role means not only learning the right solutions and how to build them, but also embracing innovative means of collaborating with and leveraging AI to do so. Every engineer has input into our engineering culture, our products and development processes, and will have a real impact as part of a small, nimble team.

This position is located in Denver, Colorado as a hybrid position requiring 3 days in office (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). Candidates must live in the United States.

What you will be doing:

• Build products and tools, using the right language/tool for the job, that drive valuable impact to Ibotta, our customers, or fellow engineers

• Work collaboratively with a highly talented cross-functional team to design, develop and deliver new products and features that will be used by millions of users

• Use Amazon’s AWS infrastructure and advanced services daily, including serverless architectures

• Stay abreast of the ever-changing technology landscape to identify the best tools and technologies to design and build flexible, scalable, reliable and high-performing applications

• Maintain an agile, experimental and iterative approach, with a willingness to learn fast in a constantly evolving and uncertain environment

• Decompose business problems and requirements into manageable sub-tasks

• Know how to judiciously leverage AI to assist with software development

• Know when to choose AI as part of the tech stack and how to use it when building products, and operating them in production

• Use Amazon’s AWS infrastructure and advanced services daily, including serverless architectures

• Leverage and contribute to our CI/CD pipeline to deploy code many times daily 

• Write tests and participate in code reviews to ensure that we're shipping high-quality, maintainable code, and develop evaluators to verify the quality of non-deterministic outputs

• Own your technical solutions end-to-end from contributing your ideas, to first code commit, to operating in production

• Embrace and uphold Ibotta’s Core Values: Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency, & A good idea can come from anywhere

What we are looking for:

• 0-1+ years of experience in software development

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics or a related field required 

• Fundamental knowledge of object-oriented software design, development and architectural principles

• Knowledge of development best practices including security, compliance, performance, optimization, cost efficiency, etc.

• Knowledge of building highly scalable, observable, and fault tolerant platforms using architectural patterns such as retries, circuit breakers, rate limiters, etc on top of horizontally scalable systems

• Ability to apply core computer science concepts to iterative system design 

• Working knowledge of using AI tools for prototyping, writing, testing, debugging, and comprehending code, and the ability to critically review and improve AI-generated code to meet production standards

• Familiarity with context engineering and AI building blocks such as LLM API calls, prompting techniques, agentic frameworks, RAG, vector databases, and model fine-tuning

• Some experience with debugging and testing approaches, and frameworks from unit testing to automated testing and evaluation driven development

• Familiarity with building, deploying and operating automated workflows and agents, using platforms such as n8n, Databricks or similar

• Some experience with relevant technologies such as Typescript, Ruby on Rails, Java, Kotin, Nodejs, Vue, Swift, etc, and data stores such as MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, etc.  is valuable, but knowing when to use each is far more important

• Knowledge of implementing observability, monitoring and alerting for services and establishing SLOs for services.

About Ibotta ("I bought a...")

Ibotta (NYSE: IBTA) is a leading performance marketing platform allowing brands to deliver digital promotions to over 200 million consumers through a network of publishers called the Ibotta Performance Network (IPN). The IPN allows marketers to influence what people buy, and where and how often they shop – all while paying only when their campaigns directly result in a sale. American shoppers have earned over $2.6 billion through the IPN since 2012. The largest tech IPO in history to come out of Colorado, Ibotta is headquartered in Denver, and is continually listed as a top place to work by The Denver Post and Inc. Magazine.

To learn more about what our Tech teams are doing day to day, visit Building Ibotta on Medium.com.

Additional Details:

• This position is located in Denver, CO and includes competitive pay, flexible time off, benefits package (including medical, dental, vision), Lifestyle Spending Account, Employee Stock Purchase Program, and 401k match. Denver office perks include paid parking, snacks, and occasional meals.

• Base compensation range: $88,000- $100,000. Equity is included in overall compensation package. This compensation range is specific to the United States labor market and may be adjusted based on actual experience.

• Ibotta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Ibotta’s employment decisions are made without regard of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

• Applicants are accepted until the position is filled.

• For the security of our employees and the business, all employees are responsible for the secure handling of data in accordance with our security policies, identifying and reporting phishing attempts, as well as reporting security incidents to the proper channels.

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