Software Developer/ Engineer/ Architect

SMB Software Engineer - Tools & Automation

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