The Position
Who we are:
We are responsible for helping to drive global initiatives for Twitter's Small and Mid-Sized Business (SMB) team. This Engineering team focuses on the technical challenges that can drive better usability, functionality, and delivery of marketing and customer success content to our self-serve advertisers. The team utilizes a data-driven, analytical and programmatic approach to projects - from design to launch. These projects help generate significant revenue growth and commit directly to advertisers’ satisfaction and are accomplished through collaborating extensively with cross-functional teams across Data Science, Customer Success, Marketing, Operations, and Engineering.
What you’ll do:
As an experienced engineer, you will have the opportunity to work with some of the world’s most highly-scaled distributed systems. You will review requirements, design systems, collaborate with partners, prioritize and lead projects not only in terms of technical ability but also with quality, efficiency, building / maintaining quality technical and non-technical documentation.
You are able to:
Support / promote high-quality work, software standard methodologies, and attention to detail
Analyze, prioritize, and strategize incoming projects using critical thinking
Work with data scientist partners, build data pipelines and systems that deploy machine learning algorithms at scale
Build and maintain software services and tools used by internal users or external advertisers
Engineer systems of varying architectures
Write code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise
Diagnose, and troubleshoot complex distributed problems and develop solutions
Work cross-functionally with various engineering and non-engineering teams
BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
Expertise is in at least one of the following languages: Scala, Java, Python, C++
Backend development experience with a strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, large-scale data processing
Experience with the entire SDLC
Critical thinker with an excellent analytical mindset
Well-versed in software engineering standard methodologies (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)
Ability to multi-task efficiently and work in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
Desired:
Previous experience with Hadoop, Scalding, Thrift/Protocol Buffers, SQL/Vertica or other relational databases
Full-stack/front-end development experiences
A few other things we value:
Challenge - We solve some of the industry’s hardest problems. Come to be challenged, learn, and thrive as an engineer.
Diversity - Diversity makes us a better organization and team. We value diverse backgrounds, ideas, and experiences.
Work, Life, Balance - We work hard, but we believe with hard work should come balance.
