Location: Soho, New York, NY (Hybrid 3-days per week)

Who We Are:

DoubleVerify is a leading software platform for digital media measurement, data & analytics. DVs mission is to be the definitive source of transparency & data-driven insights into the quality & effectiveness of digital advertising for the worlds largest brands, publishers & digital ad platforms. DVs technology platform provides advertisers with consistent & unbiased data & analytics that can be used to optimize the quality & return on their digital ad investments. Since 2008, DV has helped hundreds of Fortune 500 companies gain the most from their media spend by delivering best in class solutions across the digital advertising ecosystem, helping to build a better industry. Learn more at www.doubleverify.com.

Position Overview: 

As a Staff Software Engineer, youll own new initiatives, designs, & the development of critical pieces of application code powering our new suite of social tools. Youll ensure industry-leading scalability, reliability, & security of distributed processes & services for these applications. Additionally, youll apply state of the art technologies, frameworks, & strategies to address complex challenges with moving information from big data systems to the hands of our customers. 

Responsibilities:

• Provide both ownership & technical leadership on high-impact projects
• Facilitate team collaboration to ensure alignment on project goals & deliverables.
• Demonstrate achievements, highlight milestones, & present innovative solutions to a collaborative engineering team.
• Facilitate alignment & clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, & timelines
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, & deliverables
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, & enhance large scale software solutions that power our products

Who you are:

• Minimum 7-8 years of experience developing server-side software, with a strong focus on API design, data modeling, & complex service-based systems
• A strong desire to help create scalable & user-friendly consumer-facing products
• A proven track record of designing & implementing large-scale, distributed systems
• Strong knowledge & hands-on experience with REST API design principles & best practices
• Expertise in data modeling & database design
• Experience with event-driven architectures & message queuing systems
• Familiarity with DevOps practices & CI/CD pipelines
• Displaying a test-driven & metrics-based approach to development & design with a desire to find & correct issues before user discovery 
• Understanding of security best practices in software design
• Hands-on familiarity with Python & Python-centric frameworks (Django, FastAPI, Flask)
• Strong communication skills & ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical & non-technical audiences
• Experience mentoring & leading development teams

Responsibilities:

• Provide both ownership & technical leadership on high-impact projects
• Influence & mentor a distributed team of engineers
• Facilitate alignment & clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, & timelines
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, & deliverables
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, & enhance large scale software solutions that power our products

Additional Preferred Attributes:

• Familiarity with the Google Cloud Platform & BigQuery in particular
• Experience with container technologies such Docker / Kubernetes
• Experience with event streaming platforms such as Kafka
• Knowledge of ad serving technologies & standards 

The successful candidates starting salary will be determined based on a number of non-discriminating factors, including qualifications for the role, level, skills, experience, location, & balancing internal equity relative to peers at DV. The estimated salary range for this role based on the qualifications set forth in the job description is between [$128,000.00 - $275,000.00]. This role will also be eligible for bonus/commission (as applicable), equity, & benefits. The range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description; however, we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, & recognize that the person we hire may be more or less experienced than this job description as posted.

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