Lead Software Engineer
About Us:
Want to join a company on the cutting edge of technology and travel? Want to be part of a fantastic and fun company that’s revolutionising the online travel advertising space?
Sojern works with 93% of the Fortune 500 travel companies and has spent more than a decade analyzing the complete traveler path to purchase. We drive travelers from dream to destination by activating multi-channel branding and performance solutions on the Sojern Traveler Platform for more than 8,500 customers around the world.
Sojern made Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 list for the last 6 years in a row, and was recognised on the Top Company Cultures list by Entrepreneur Magazine and named a Best Place to Work by AdAge. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, with teams based in Dubai, Dublin, Hong Kong, London, Mexico City, New York, Omaha, Paris, Singapore, Sydney and Istanbul.
Need more convincing that Sojern is a great place to work? Check out our Glassdoor reviews!
The Role:
It is an exciting time to join the engineering team at Sojern. Business is booming and the opportunities for engineering to make a huge impact to our business are ever growing. With a plethora of major initiatives and an aggressive plan to practically double the engineering team within a year, we’re in search of Lead Software Engineer to help us grow and make our company vision a reality.
Responsibilities:
Project Conception/Refinement -- Work alongside our product team to conceive, refine, and plan for new functionality/products that enhance Sojern’s products/value
Design and Build Distributed Systems -- work with product, data science and site reliability engineer to design large scale, fault-tolerant systems.
Ownership -- Own key systems and define key SLIs/SLOs/SLAs for those systems. defining SLIs/SLOs. Work alongside our product team to conceive and bring to life new functionality/products that impact Sojern’s performance and value. Represent the engineering team throughout Sojern
Join the platform engineering team and help make impact on Sojern’s bottom line. Each engineer in the team owns highly visible revenue producing features of our Sojern Travel Platform. You will be responsible for taking new features from inception to execution in partnership with Product, Data Science, SRE and Ops teams. We are looking for engineers who are quick learners and are not afraid of multiple deployments in a day (except for Friday!)
Requirements:
- BS/MS/PhD in CS/EE or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience
- Production experience in one of: Go, Python, Java.
- Excellent grasp of CS fundamentals - data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with Distributed Systems.
- Experience with highly parallel processes.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services infrastructure (EC2, S3).
- Big Data experience: BigQuery, BigTable, Hadoop, HBase
Nice to Haves:
- Machine Learning experience -- Successful implementation of ML solutions
- Infrastructure Tools - Docker, Kubernetes (GKE), Jenkins
- AdTech experience - OpenBidder/RTB
Perks:
Opportunities: Be part of a growing team with training and support to help you grow
Ownership: Lead creative and challenging projects
Give Back: We give 40 hours a year to volunteer and organize office volunteer programs with local organizations
Culture: Strong core business values, focus on teamwork, vibrant, social and fun environment
Snacks: Variety of snacks in the office
Meals: Monthly catered lunches & happy hours
Competitive Localized Benefits
IATA Travel Discount
Time Off: Flexible vacation days
At Sojern, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.