Software Engineer II (Remote)

Company: Vericast
Location: Fort Worth
Posted on: May 16, 2022

Job Description:

Company Description

Vericast is a leading marketing solutions company, delivering actionable insights and expertise through its Valassis and Harland Clarke omnichannel solutions, to help more than 70,000 businesses engage with their customers. Every day, Vericast influences purchasing and transaction behavior of more than 120 million households - impacting where they eat, shop, buy, save and borrow. Follow Vericast on LinkedIn and Twitter to learn how Vericast drives commerce.

Job Description

The Ad Optimization team plays a central role in our digital advertising platform, building the models and control systems that decide how to place bids on ads to maximize their impact and efficiency. Our team works with data scientists to analyze ad opportunities at scale (over 100 billion per day) to find hidden value and constantly improve ad serving for each of our thousands of campaigns. We determine bidding algorithms that must make decisions in milliseconds to win at the right price against hundreds of other partners competing for the same opportunities. We also build controllers that measure success, balance competing concerns, and quickly respond to changes in the digital advertising ecosystem.

The Ad Optimization team works closely with other engineering teams like Ad Infrastructure & Services and Performance Analytics, as well as operations teams like Business Analytics.

We're looking for a problem solver to join an experienced team of engineers and data scientists that use data to bring new products to life and keep our technology competitive in a constantly evolving marketplace. We write code primarily in Scala and Python to use Apache Spark to analyze and exploit an abundance of information from many sources to find and win the best ads for our clients.

What you'll do:
Build systems that use data to solve problems and measure the success of our advertising platform
Work with data science to design and improve models for decision making
Create new data and tools to measure and monitor performance
Coordinate with other engineering, analytics, and operations teams to build and improve our advertising products
Collaborate with your fellow team members to deliver high-quality solutions

Who You Are

Qualifications
Fluent in Scala, Python, or Java
Experienced working with batch data engineering and "big data" technology (such as MapReduce or Spark)
Able to solve open-ended problems, identify the right requirements, and measure success
Capable of diving into complex datasets to find answers to your questions
Excited about working in a fast-paced environment with a lot of experimentation and moving parts
At least 3 years industry experience

Technologies
Scala
Python
Java
PySpark
HDFS

Third Party Tools
Jupyter
Grafana
Git
Jenkins
Docker
Kubernetes
Rundeck

Additional Information

Vericast is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants who have disabilities may request that accommodations be made in order to complete the selection process by contacting our Recruiting Administrator directly at 616-541-3145.

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