Senior Backend Software Engineer - Data Platform

ActionIQ is a new kind of customer data platform that lets marketing teams tap directly into central data sources and activate it anywhere in the customer journey. Unlike traditional CDPs, ActionIQ keeps data securely where it lives and makes it easy for marketers to design personalized interactions that unlock revenue across the entire customer lifecycle. We are backed by top-tier VCs Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and March Capital. We partner with enterprise brands such as Albertsons, e.l.f., Dell, The Washington Post and many more to achieve growth through extraordinary customer experiences.

The Data Platform team at ActionIQ plays a pivotal role in building and operating our big-data platform and core product offering. We develop the Scala code base used by our low-latency, high-throughput, reliable backend APIs and ETL processes to support a growing feature set. You’ll work in all areas of the software development life cycle to launch new features and improve and refactor our backend systems. As a senior member of the team, you’ll mentor early career engineers, make well-reasoned tech vs. product trade-offs, and work collaboratively across teams to deliver and support a quality product and platform which ingests, models, queries, and exports multiple terabytes of streaming and batch data every day.

• Deliver high-quality, maintainable code.
• Operationally ensure services meet uptime and availability SLAs.
• Work with others to break down projects into smaller units of work with intermediate milestones.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and architects to design and implement features and improvements throughout multiple areas of the platform.
• Mentor early career engineers.
• Design and build distributed services that are fault-tolerant, scalable, testable, maintainable, and work with large amounts of data on the cloud.
• Drive the team to build APIs efficiently.
• Use the cloud to manage data and systems.
• Optimize systems for improved performance and scalability.
• Work with technologies such as Kafka, Spark, and other tools relevant to our data platform.
• Play a key role in the end-to-end lifecycle of projects, from design and development to testing, implementation, and post-implementation support.

• 5+ years of experience as a backend software engineer.
• Experience working in a backend language, such as Java, Scala, Golang, etc.
• Experience leading the implementation of a large product feature or infrastructure changes.
• Experience with Spark, Kafka, and stream processing technologies. 
• Experience with container orchestration systems, such as Kubernetes.
• Experience in analyzing, diagnosing, and problem-solving with large-scale distributed systems/data and cloud-based platforms.
• Experience working with both SQL and NoSQL databases 
• Effective communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working in an agile team environment.
• Excitement to work in a team environment with other engineers and product managers on service consumed by other engineering teams.

• Our compensation package includes base salary, stock options, and the great benefits shown below. The salary range for this role is: $185,000 - $210,000

• Enjoy leading Medical, Dental and Vision benefits, 401k, FSA, Commuter Benefits, Gym Reimbursement, flexible PTO and 12-weeks paid parental leave
• Opportunities to explore, enhance, and expand your skill set through conferences, workshops, and access to Udemy learning courses.
• We have a beautiful office in NYC right on Madison Square Park, and local employees come into the office on a hybrid schedule, three days a week (M, W, Th) #LI-Hybrid. Office perks include catered lunches, a stocked kitchen with beverages and snacks, and monthly social hours.
• Work with a fun, inclusive, and smart team of people as we build a New York City based enterprise software company.

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