Lead Software Engineer
About the Team
We seek out passionate, self-motivated people that are committed to our shared goal of building the next generation of advertising services that connect businesses with consumers. We are a small agile team of technologists who support each other with constructive feedback, embracing diverse perspectives, and being the best humans we can.
About the Company
AdCellerant is a tech-enabled services company focused on making Madison Avenue level digital advertising solutions available to Main Street marketers. We focus on finding the smartest, most experienced candidates, that is a perfect fit for the position, and the company’s culture. As a company, we focus on our team above everything else and know if our team is motivated all the company’s business objectives can be achieved. After 5 years, our focus on team first has led to being recognized as an Inc. Magazine “Best Workplace” for two years running and a Denver Business Journal “Best Workplace.”
Over the last 5 years, AdCellerant has grown from a few founders to a team of 76 talented, hard-working individuals leading the industry in supporting local marketers. This team helps execute sophisticated digital advertising campaigns in Programmatic, Native, Video, Mobile, Search Engine Marketing, Email, and Search Engine Optimization.
Job Description
We are looking for a full-stack Lead Software Engineer, the responsibilities of which will include working closely with other engineers to architect, design, build, and maintain new and existing applications. The Lead Software Engineer will ultimately be responsible for managing a small agile team as well as contributing at a senior engineer level. The high level duties of which are:
- Writing code in a senior software engineer capacity
- Mentoring fellow engineers in the agile team
- Running a scrum team
- Writing and grooming stories for the product backlog
- Performing regular code reviews, some formal, many informal
- Leading design teams for application and system architecture
Additional Responsibilities:
- Architect and develop new user-facing features
- Design reusable code and libraries for future use
- Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
- Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders in the SDLC
- Maintain existing user-facing applications
- Ensure code standards are followed and code is tested using automated test frameworks
Skills And Qualifications
- 8+ years experience developing full stack web applications
- Experience building web applications, with evidence of a deep understanding of JavaScript, HTML, CSS3, and API design
- Proven experience working in an agile/scrum process
- Great communicator; has experience with pair programming and test-driven development
- Deep experience in the following front end and back end web technologies: NodeJS, React, or Angular
- Experience with building highly available and scalable systems
- Familiarity with relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Familiarity with non-relational databases like MongoDB or ElasticSearch
- Deep understanding of modern software development practices and methodologies
- Can speak to good software design patterns and their usage in good code design
- Experience with Docker and its use in Microservice oriented architectures
- Has worked in event driven architectures and message bus technologies such as: RabbitMQ or Kafka
- Efficient in Linux
Bonus Qualifications
- Has previous experience working in a small organization or startup
- Has worked in another programing language not mentioned above, such as: Python/Go/Scala/Ruby/Java
- TypeScript experience a big plus
- JVM experience a big plus
- Has previous experience with GraphQL
- Has worked with many databases and ORM libraries
- Experience with handling large data sets
- Experience in Advertising
- Has developed within AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or other Cloud Based Environments
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science preferred or commensurate industry experience.
Benefits
AdCellerant offers full time employees three weeks of paid time off per year, sick days, health and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, and a great downtown Denver location!