Job Description

About Us:

Unified is a leading provider of digital advertising services & solutions powered by data & technology. Our proprietary technology is designed to change the business of digital advertising by helping brands achieve unprecedented marketing results. Unified provides expert Managed & Professional Services super-charged by innovative operations & insights platforms, as well as cutting-edge Data Management & Audience Insights solutions. With a range of offerings, we are able to create custom solutions for our clients, tailored to their needs & goals. Headquartered in New York City & with offices in Los Angeles & Atlanta, Unified has managed over $5B in advertising data for the world's largest brands & agencies & run more than $1B in advertising campaigns.

For the last four years, Unified has been recognized by AdAge & Crain's as one of the Best Places To Work. For more information, visit www.Unified.com or follow @Unified on Twitter. Unified is an equal opportunity employer.

The Role:

We are looking for a full stack engineer with a demonstrated track record of developing & maintaining production services, innovative thinking, & technical excellence. This role will be a mixture of technical design, individual contribution, & thorough testing.

You will be part of our fast paced, innovative team of engineers who engage in full stack development of features involving building delightful front-end experience as per our design specifications to building microservices & designing data stores for the backend.

You are flexible with languages & tools & are willing to learn whatever is necessary to get the job done.

Collaborate with our product & design teams to understand pain points & build solutions.

Help maintain a high level of engineering quality.

You build collective ownership amongst the team by contributing to code reviews, designs & whiteboarding.

What you'll do:

• Gain valuable experience at a rapidly growing big data company

• Collaborate with independent technology teams using the agile methodology

• Build interactive & intuitive UIs that solve complex problems & are a delight to use

• Building new, efficient, & scalable front-end applications

• Contribute to robust APIs that pull from both graph & relational databases

• Collaborate closely with a product team to plan, execute, & ship business critical projects

• Write clean, maintainable, & testable code

• Participate regularly in code reviews with your peers

• Test your creativity at Unified hack-a-thons

• Ship work you're proud of

Need to have:

• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience

• 2.5+ years experience of designing & building successful customer facing web applications

• Proficient in at least one, preferably statically typed, programming language i.e. (Java, C++, Golang)

• Strong understanding of Javascript & at least one frontend framework i.e. React, Vue, AngularJS

• Experience building Javascript based web applications with HTML5, CSS, Node.js

• Experience contributing to & integrating with REST APIs

• Hands-on experience in writing complex, highly-optimized SQL queries in at least one of the common database platforms such as MySQL and/or PostgreSQL

• Experience running shell commands, e.g. OS X or Linux terminal

• Experience writing unit & integration tests

• Good architectural level understanding, the ability to see the big picture, & the ability to evaluate different approaches & tools & use instincts to make timely judgements

• Excellent communication & teamwork skills

• A cooperative, understanding, open, & friendly demeanor

• A mindset of continuous improvement

• Experience with Git & Github, including Github Pull Request workflows

Bonus experience:

• Experience working with GraphQL for querying APIs & serving relevant data

• Global UI state management with Apollo & React Apollo

• NPM & JavaScript build tools, e.g. Babel, Webpack, Browserify

• Python, TypeScript

• MVVM framework Vue.js

• Amazon Web Services

• Microservice architecture design principles

• Graph databases, e.g. Neo4j

• Columnar data stores, e.g. Amazon Redshift, BigQuery

• CI/CD systems, e.g. Jenkins

• Experience with Atlassian software development & collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.)

• Agile methodologies

• Social networks APIs, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

• Data pipeline & streaming tech, e.g. Hive, Spark, Kafka, Kafka Streams