Senior Software Engineer (Scala/Java)

Introduction to Demandbase: 

Demandbase is the Smarter GTM™ company for B2B brands. We help marketing and sales teams overcome the disruptive data and technology fragmentation that inhibits insight and forces them to spam their prospects. We do this by injecting Account Intelligence into every step of the buyer journey, wherever our clients interact with customers, and by helping them orchestrate every action across systems and channels - through advertising, account-based experience, and sales motions. The result? You spot opportunities earlier, engage with them more intelligently, and close deals faster. 

As a company, we’re as committed to growing careers as we are to building world-class technology. We invest heavily in people, our culture, and the community around us. We have offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Seattle, and teams in the UK and India, and allow employees to work remotely. We have also been continuously recognized as one of the best places to work in the San Francisco Bay Area.

We're committed to attracting, developing, retaining, and promoting a diverse workforce. By ensuring that every Demandbase employee is able to bring a diversity of talents to work, we're increasingly capable of living out our mission to transform how B2B goes to market. We encourage people from historically underrepresented backgrounds and all walks of life to apply. Come grow with us at Demandbase!

About the Role:

We are a group of talented individuals with deep expertise in the domain area of business applications and building large complex systems with simple user interfaces. We also have deep expertise in big data technology such as IR, NLP, and large graphs and utilize the best technology to provide innovative and novel products to frustrated end-users in the enterprise.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our core unified framework to bring our customers' highly valuable data into our platform to augment our own data and yield actionable insights for our customers. These integrations may require new end-to-end feature development. 

You'll help us tackle some of the most challenging engineering problems around, like how can we enable closing the loop between data, insights, and action for B2B marketers by building an extensible framework using REST APIs that any martech, adtech, or salestech solution can integrate into with ease.

What you'll be doing:

• Define: Work with internal stakeholders to design and develop components in the next generation of Demandbase's unified framework.
• Document: Write clear documentation to convey plans and technical design.
• Test: Write unit, integration, and load tests as necessary. 
• Code: Build and expand our platform by integrating it with key third-party services. Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Monitor & Deploy: Ensure high reliability of all maintained product offerings by building reporting and monitoring mechanisms into our infrastructure.
• Operate: Own and operate the integrations, Be a front-line responder for issues filed by customers.

What we're looking for:

• BS or MS in Computer Science plus at least 5 years of relevant work experience
• 5+ years of experience in functional or object oriented programming
• 2+ years of experience building robust and scalable services 
• Solid knowledge of backend server components.performance optimization and scaling complex systems
• Strong experience with cloud computing (we use AWS and GCP)

What we're looking for:

• 5+ years of experience in functional or object oriented programming and, scalable services in Java or Scala
• 2+ years of experience building robust and scalable services in Scala
• Solid knowledge of backend server components.performance optimization and scaling complex systems
• Able to write idiomatic Scala as well as easily understand existing code written in Scala
• Good knowledge of Scala tools, libraries and frameworks like sbt, ZIO and Akka.
• Able to build, deploy and monitor a microservice from scratch.
• Able to write complex database queries in SQL.
• Experience with Postgres and any columnar database.

Nice to have:

• Solid knowledge of backend server components, performance optimization and scaling complex systems
• Experience working with messaging systems such as Kafka or Pulsar

Benefits:

Our benefits include options for up to 100% paid Medical, Dental, and Vision premiums, flexible PTO policy, no internal meeting Fridays, Modern Health mental wellness platform, and 11 paid holidays and 2 additional weeks where all Demandbase employees take off (the week of July 4th and the week of Thanksgiving). Plus 401(k), short-term/long-term disability, life insurance, and all those good things.