LiveRail is seeking a talented, self-motivated Lead Software Engineer to join our Product & Engineering team. As a Lead Software Engineer, you should possess excellent technical, communication and organizational skills. You will work with Product and Engineering teams to build new products, enhance and scale the existing product suite, build tools for internal operations and provide solutions to challenging technical issues.
This position will expose you to a wide range of exciting technologies (from straightforward Javascript and PHP, to Node.js, d3 and SVG, Hadoop and data warehousing, mobile and connected TV SDKs, real-time analytics etc.) and intriguing technical challenges resulting from our infrastructure’s scale (tens of thousands of transactions per second, hundreds of thousands of auction bid requests per second, terabytes of data collected and processed every day, powering ~25% of the online video advertising market).
Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering team members on projects of various scale and size, ranging from tools for internal operations to large scale customer-facing products.
• Develop innovative technical solutions to address the on-going product requirements.
• Manage project-specific taskforces – coordinate the day-to-day activities of other engineers in the team, project deadlines and expectations, the efficiency/performance of the finished product.
• Compose and communicate information about technical issues, solutions and other broad technical communication.
• Actively track and manage individual and team tasks within the issue tracking system of record.
• Observe coding standards, code reliability and stability and implement these throughout the managed teams.