Staff Software Engineer (Tech Lead)

About Moloco:

Moloco is a machine learning company empowering organizations of all sizes to grow and unlock the full value of their unique first-party data, elevating the traditional path to performance advertising. While the largest technology companies have proven the speed and scale of ad-targeting utilizing data— the same robust performance powered by machine learning has previously been unavailable beyond their platforms. 

That's where Moloco steps in. With Moloco's powerful combination of cutting-edge machine learning technologies, we play a unique and visible role in shaping the digital economy, all while allowing companies to stay independent and scale.

An industry leader at the nexus of machine learning, performance marketing, and visionary product infrastructure, Moloco is advancing the advertising technology industry. We ranked in the top 10% of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies for 2023. Recognized as one of 46 leading Cloud Computing companies, receiving the Stratus Award for 2023. In 2023, we received Google’s Cloud DevOps Dreamers Award, a recognition given to companies that are implementing DevOps practices to drive organizational success and high performance. Lastly, Moloco is a 2024-certified Great Place to Work! Check us out on Glassdoor and be sure to get an inside look at working at Moloco on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, London, Berlin, Seoul, Singapore, Beijing, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Tel Aviv and Tokyo.

Creating a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion and belonging is core to our existence. To reach our goals, diversity of talent and thought is a critical component of how we operate as an organization. Our workforce is our superpower, and we know that fostering a culture of inclusion, authenticity, and belonging will allow us the greatest opportunity to carry out our mission -- to empower businesses of all sizes to grow through operational machine learning.

Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now!

The Impact You'll Be Contributing to Moloco:

Moloco is at the forefront of revolutionizing the digital advertising industry through the power of machine learning. As a Staff Software Engineer (Tech Lead) at Moloco, you will play a critical role in driving innovation and shaping the future of mobile advertising. We are looking for exceptional engineers who are passionate about building scalable, high-performance systems that solve complex problems in a fast-paced environment.

This role is part of Moloco’s Streaming Monetization (MSM) team building our Streaming & OTT platform, the first ML-driven monetization platform that allows leading streaming media and OTT companies to leverage the same state-of-the-art technology stack that Moloco uses to drive our own ML-powered performance ads business.

If you are excited about building groundbreaking technology that impacts millions of users worldwide, then Moloco is the place for you.

Here’s what you’ll be working on:

• Drive engineering projects for architecting, designing, developing, and operating an end-to-end service platform for customers looking to leverage Moloco’s ML-driven advertising technology stack, services and infrastructure.
• Build, grow and lead a full stack engineering team responsible for developing enterprise platform products, features and APIs across the entire MSM technology stack.
• Be responsible for all development and operational aspects of MSM engineering in collaborating with peers in the Product Management, Business Development, and Enterprise Sales teams. Joint activities will include requirement specification, ensuring the quality of products and service operations, and communicating the technical roadmap to enterprise customers.
• Own the communication, coordination, and facilitation of cross-functional MSM engineering projects across Moloco’s engineering organization.
• Help engineering leadership build roadmaps and action plans for the MSM service.
• Identify risks in executing projects and develop mitigation plans and strategies.
• This role reports to the Regional Manager for India.

Here is what you need to succeed:

• 12+ years of hands-on industry experience in software development on data infrastructure or platform.
• Experience building large scale distributed systems that can handle large data (Terabytes) and millions of users.
• Excellent software development skills and fluency in at least one programming language (preferably Java, Go or Python).
• Experienced team lead. Should be comfortable mentoring senior, mid and junior engineers.
• Outstanding problem-solving skills and strategic planning.
• Experience in Cloud/Big Data platforms (e.g., AWS, GCE, GCP, Beam, Spark, BigTable, BigQuery etc.).

Preferred Skills:

• Interest in monetization or digital advertising technology business.

Moloco Thrive: Benefits and Well-Being:

We take care of you and create the conditions for you to do the best work of your career. Through a lens of inclusion, we offer innovative benefits that empower our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can do the best work of their lives. For an overview of our global benefits, click here. 

Moloco Values

• Lead with Humility: Everyone’s voice is respected, valued, and heard. With humility, we become more open and accessible to each other. We win, lose, and learn together. Accountability and feedback are essential to our success. 
• Uncapped Growth Mindset: We see all situations as opportunities to learn, grow, and improve as individuals and as an organization. We seek diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and promote experimentation to push the boundaries of what’s possible. 
• Create Real Value: We pursue the most impactful opportunities with rigor and integrity. We take intelligent risks and make disciplined trade-offs to maintain deep focus. We help our customers win by delivering durable value. 
• Go Further Together: We’re one team working towards one mission and vision. We collaborate proactively and inclusively, involving the right people at the right time and in the right way. We strive to create a more equitable workplace. We won’t let each other fail. 

Additional Resources: 

• Moloco Company Blog 
• Moloco Leadership
• Moloco Newsroom 

Equal Opportunity: 

Moloco is an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex and gender, gender expression, and gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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