Optimove is a global marketing tech company, recognized as a Leader by Forrester and a Challenger by Gartner. We work with some of the world's most exciting brands, such as Sephora, Staples, and Entain, who love our thought-provoking combination of art and science. With a strong product, a proven business, and the DNA of a vibrant, fast-growing startup, we're on the cusp of our next growth spurt. It's the perfect time to join our team of ~450 thinkers and doers across NYC, LDN, TLV, and other locations, where 2 of every 3 managers were promoted from within. Growing your career with Optimove is basically guaranteed.
Responsibilities
We are a group of technophiles who love big things that scale. As the leader in our group, you will need to:
- Lead - Take over a team of 6 that develops and maintains systems that process TBs of data.
- Execute - Make things happen and hone your leadership and mentorship skills.
- Think outside of the box - Own legacy systems and gradually re-write them.
- Innovate - Tackle advanced software engineering challenges, mainly in big data batch processing.
- Own - Take products from ideation and planning to production and monitoring together with your peers and stakeholders.
Requirements
- Experience:
- At least five years in backend development/data engineering.
- At least two years in team leadership.
- Managed at least 3 engineers.
- Processed at least 1 TB of data over a short period of time.
- End-to-end ideation, execution and deployment of at least one meaningful project.
- Leadership:
- Strong communication skills and ability to tear down projects to small deployable units.
- Patience to mentor with a focus on actionable milestones.
- Take ownership and know how to filter essence from noise.
- Hands-on Experience working with:
- Java/.NET.
- NodeJS/Python.
- SQL and NoSQL DBs.
- Data Engineer frameworks (Apache AirFlow, Apache Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Snowflake, DataBricks).
- Knowledge:
- Deep Understanding of a complex open-source project.
- How to build solutions for the Cloud.
- Fluent in English and ability to work in a multi-language environment.
Advantages
- Experience:
- At least 1 year of TDD.
- Building CI/CD from scratch.
- Deploying and managing software on GCP.
- Handled a major production incident.
- Leadership:
- Overcame difficult management challenges.
- Promoted an employee.
- Have product/business orientation.
- Hands-on Experience working with:
- CI/CD.
- Terraform/Cloudformation/Ansible.
- Knowledge:
- Kubernetes under the hood.
- Apache Spark under the hood.
- Designing and communicating contracts.
- Project Management.
