[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer - Targeting @MNTN

Role Description

The MNTN Targeting Group helps brands reach the right customers with software that turns petabytes of data into meaningful audience targeting strategies. You'll be joining the team working on MNTN Matched, our flagship machine learning product that is a critical revenue driver for the business. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll be deeply involved in developing and improving the core models and systems that power our targeting products. Your work will directly influence the quality, efficiency, and innovation of our targeting platform.

• Create and support Kotlin APIs and services to support our targeting distributed systems - the most critical component in our business
• Work in many environments, including languages and tools like Rust, PySpark, Kafka, and several RDBMSes
• Understand the broader context of our software beyond the components you build
• Raise the bar on our engineering culture, leading by example
• Build high volume services that are reliable at scale
• Work with enormous volumes of data (100s of TB daily)
• Collaborate with and explain complex technical issues to Product and Project Leads
• Optimize and enhance existing products

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Java, Kotlin, or Scala development experience
• Comfort diving into tech stacks outside your primary specialization
• A desire to understand the purpose and impact of the tools you build
• Strong proficiency in SQL, table design, indexing and other common database skills
• Integration of AI tools such as Cursor, ChatGPT and other LLM based copilots in your workflow
• Experience with Microservice style architecture
• Familiarity with Git and Linux/UNIX environments
• Experience on AWS, GCP, or other cloud infrastructure

Benefits

• 100% remote within the US
• Flexible vacation policy
• Annual vacation allowance for travel related expenses
• Three-day weekend every month of the year
• Competitive compensation
• 100% healthcare coverage
• 401k plan
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for dependent, medical, and dental care
• Access to coaching, therapy, and professional development