The Position
What You’ll Do
You’ll be responsible for architecting solutions and managing development efforts from inception to shipping. You’ll bring your experience and unique perspective as a user experience-focused technologist to the brainstorm to help shape ideas.
You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams within Twitter Next, including designers, strategists, producers, and other technologists.
You’ll become an expert in Twitter’s platform and technologies to bring human-centric ideas from sparks of inspiration to measurable, launched experiences that solve the business objectives of Twitter’s top advertising partners and delight our users.
Who You Are
You’re a highly driven creative thinker who has a history of uniting creativity with technical expertise and full stack development experience to consistently deliver innovative digital programs.
You have a track record of delivering scalable technology strategy and architecture recommendations for brand client engagements.
You’ve managed the implementation of technical projects, including setting client expectations and assessing project risks.
You’re comfortable tracking project issues and developing mitigation and contingency plans.
You have a passion for emerging technologies, current with industry trends and their application.
You are exceptionally clear and precise in communication to a wide range of internal and external audiences, both technical and non-technical– from DBAs to CMOs.
You possess a strong quantitative background to support data-informed decision making
Company Description
Who We Are
Twitter Next is a global team of marketers, creatives, technologists, program managers, developers, data scientists, and analysts – all dedicated to dreaming up and building ideas worth talking about for brands.
“The Lab” is an embedded team within Twitter Next that specifically combines design, data science, and technology to push the limits of what’s possible with Twitter for our most ambitious brand and agency partnerships. The Twitter Next team is looking to add an outstanding technologist to the team.
Additional Information
We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Twitter. Twitter is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.
San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records
Qualifications
Requirements
5+ years engineering or development experience at a creative agency delivering innovative technology for major brands, agencies, or media partners
2+ years experience managing complex projects, leading teams and managing client interactions for large multinational brands
Excellent understanding of best practices across technologies (client/server-side, big data, mobile, QA, deployment, project management, etc.)
Strong grasp of architectural principles necessary for designing scalable, extensible and maintainable systems
Experience in working with APIs and webhooks and a strong understanding of their implementation
Experience assessing and developing relationships with external vendors and solutions providers
Hands-on experience working with Twitter’s public APIs
Desired
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
Experience with agile software development methodologies and productivity tools
Language skills in Spanish, French, and/or Arabic.
Hands-on development experience with highly-available, scalable software and services
Knowledge about Twitter platform, functionality and ad products
Experience working with Twitter’s premium and enterprise APIs
