Software Engineer, Bidder

Who we are:

Chartboost is the leading in-app monetization and programmatic advertising platform. We reach a global audience of over 700 million monthly active users and process over 2.7 trillion monthly advertising auctions. The Chartboost SDK is one the most widely integrated mobile ad SDKs and through the Chartboost Exchange, Ad Network, DSP and other services, we empower mobile app developers to build businesses, while connecting advertisers to highly engaged audiences.

We need a developer who can think in terms of microseconds and nanoseconds rather than milliseconds. We are looking for a high performance developer to join our team focused on the development of our real-time DSP Platform, one of the most exciting and important products within Chartboost. The system powering this product must deal with 100,000’s of requests per second at low latency while evaluating hundreds of machine learning models. Big O matters. This is an opportunity to write code and manage systems that control millions of dollars in real time. It touches on high scale, low latency and competitive data science.  

Impact you will make:

• Responsible for design, development and testing of our core pricing engine
• Ensure performance and correctness of our real time bidding system 
• Work effectively with other engineers, product managers, system architects, QA, and Operations teams to implement new features, feature enhancements and issue resolutions
• Participate in technical discussions; come up with innovative ways to improve the product and processes
• Troubleshoot issues with applications, technologies, and infrastructure
• Continuously improve your technical knowledge
• Think creatively and work independently - while also collaborating with our team to maximize efficiency and throughput
• Deliver quality work on time while driving developer productivity across the organization
• You’re the type of engineer that appreciates clean code and has experience in writing unit tests to keep the utmost code quality
• Mentor junior engineers and exemplify a working style of best development practices

Who you are:

• BS in Computer Science or related field
• Excel at problem solving and algorithm development.  
• 4+ years experience with several mainstream programming languages
• Experience with a high performance, low latency application
• You have experience working with Agile development
• You have experience working with US based engineering teams

The following experience would be a plus:

• Golang and Python
• Machine Learning
• NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Bigtable, etc)
• Managing Cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP)
• Mobile Ad Tech

Perks:

• Competitive salary with bonuses
• Flexible schedule based on core hours and the possibility of working remotely.
• Private health insurance
• Life insurance
• Optical complement for glasses or contact lenses.
• Company sponsored lunch
• English/Spanish lessons and/or other investments in your professional development
• Gym membership
• Transportation reimbursement
• Healthy snacks, and coffee in our cool office in the center of Barcelona
• 23 days of paid time off per year
• 15 paid holidays per year
• Team building events

More about us:

We are proud of the product we've built and appreciate the impact it has on other people's businesses and lives. We want to be surrounded by people who are always finding opportunities to try something new and grow. We love data and anything that helps drive intelligent decisions and always design with the user in mind.  Sounds like a fit? Join us, and be part of the team that will change the future of mobile gaming!

We are an equal opportunity employer — we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and make our hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.