Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.
Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.
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At Liftoff, the Supply Platform team is essential to the success of our Publisher side business. Our team is dedicated to designing and building platform infrastructure that processes over a billion events daily, and we are rapidly expanding. We are a group of innovative engineers leveraging the latest technology to develop proficient and scalable systems. If you're enthusiastic about building and scaling low-latency, high-throughput systems, we would love to speak with you!
Location
This is a hybrid role, requiring:
- Ability to work APAC time zone hours
- Willingness to travel to Beijing (Guomao) office for in-person meetings 1-2 days per week
Responsibilities
- Take ownership and work with various product management, development and quality assurance groups in a dynamic environment
- Design, engineer & implement highly-available, fault-tolerant, distributed systems enhancing our real-time bidding system
- Make code easy to read. Make sure it works efficiently
- Write tests and create documentation. Implement continuous integration.
- Become informed with core development, product release and its business
- Implementing new features and streamlining existing services
- Minimizing complexity and increasing shared insight
- Mentor and share knowledge with team members.
- PagerDuty on-call rotation
Requirements:
- BS in Computer Science with 5+ years professional experience; or MS in Computer Science with 3+ years of professional experience; or equivalent work experience
- Proficient in at least one of the following backend languages: Golang (preferable), C/C++, Java, Python
- Experience building low-latency, high-throughput, distributed backend services
- Deep knowledge of computer architectures, data structures, and algorithms
- Knowledge of profiling and debugging distributed microservices
- Experience building data-intensive applications.
- Experience with distributed system observability metrics, using it for data driven design decisions
- Have good team communication and collaboration skills.
- Enthusiastic about helping others and invested in the team’s success
- Good at English (oral, writing, reading)
Preferred Experience
- Previous experience in ad-tech
- Proficient in Golang
- Redis, RocksDB, Mongo, Kafka
- gRPC, RestAPI, GraphQL
- Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Github, CI/CD
- ML, Tensorflow
Working at Liftoff is dynamic, fun, and challenging and we thrive on innovation. Come join our team and help shape the future of the mobile app ecosystem. If this role sounds interesting to you, we would love to hear from you!
Location for this position is Beijing.
Liftoff's compensation strategy includes competitive market rate along with equity and benefits and perks that will give our employees what they need to do their best work. In order to ensure teams are compensated fairly for the work performed, we map out specific levels and take into consideration the cost of labor within each location.
The annual pay range for this position in Beijing is: 435,000 - 540,000 RMB.
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Liftoff is committed to providing and maintaining a work environment where all employees and candidates are treated with dignity and respect and that is free of bias, prejudice, and harassment. Liftoff is further committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all employees and candidates for employment free from discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex, gender (including sexual harassment, gender harassment, and harassment due to pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender nonconformity, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, ancestry (including association, affiliation, or participation with persons or activities related to national origin, English-proficiency or accent, or immigration status), physical or mental disability, medical condition(s), genetic information of an individual or family member of the individual, marital or domestic partner status, age, veteran or military status, family care status, requesting or taking pregnancy, parental or disability leave, requesting an accommodation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance. All such discrimination and harassment is unlawful and will not be tolerated. Liftoff maintains a continued commitment to equal employment opportunity and expects the full cooperation of all personnel.
Liftoff's Compensation Strategy
Liftoff's compensation strategy includes competitive market rate along with equity and benefits and perks that will give our employees what they need to do their best work. In order to ensure teams are compensated fairly for the work performed, we map out specific levels and take into consideration the cost of labor within each location. Liftoff provides employees a total compensation package of competitive market salaries, equity, health and wellness stipends, medical benefits associated with your country of residence. The base compensation will vary based on location, experience as well as level.
Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:
Liftoff does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team. All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Liftoff vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Liftoff Recruiting Team and such a candidate was submitted to the Liftoff Recruiting Team via our Applicant Tracking System.