Kargo creates breakthrough cross-screen ad experiences for the world’s leading brands and publishers. Everyday, our 600+ employees bring the power of their creativity and diversity to radically raising the bar on what mobile, CTV, AI, social, and eCommerce can do to wow consumers and build businesses. Now 20 years strong, Kargo has offices in NYC, Chicago, Austin, LA,  Dallas, Sydney, Auckland, London and Waterford, Ireland. Humble brag: In 2024, Kargo was recognized as a Best Place to Work by Ad Age and Built In. 

Who We Hire

Success takes all kinds. Diversity describes our workforce. Inclusion defines our culture. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or other legally protected status. Individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. 

Title: Senior Software Engineer

Job Type: Permanent

Job Location: Waterford

The Opportunity:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for taking on a leading role in Kargo’s Fabrik Player product line and will be integral in mentoring and guiding others. We are building sustainable, reusable, and scalable codebases in an agile environment and are true believers of doing it right the first time. We want our engineers to be self-starters, eager learners, who will grow with our company.

You should be comfortable working alongside Engineering, Product, and Design teams to develop clean maintainable code. Ultimately, you will help shape and define our creative and collaborative processes and will follow a best practice approach to producing high-performing products

The Daily To-Do:

• Leadership and Strategy:
• Lead strategic projects and fine tune our tooling and processes to help us become an industry leader in the video discovery and monetization space
• Technical Expertise:
• Increase our ability to develop and adjust to market demands for our video player and content management platform
• Help us build the capabilities to move from manual experiments to deploying multiple experiments at a time
• Improve our developer experience through tooling such as Grunt, Webpack, or other modern front-end build tools
• Project Management Expertise:
• Lead medium to large-sized projects that will involve coordination and delegation of work with external teams
• Improve our planning and predictability of our projects through processes and our project management tools (Monday.com and Jira)
• Prioritize our project roadmaps based on our goals and feedback from our customers and stakeholders

Qualifications : 

• At least 6+ years of experience working in the Software industry or a related field.
• 3+ years of TypeScript, JavaScript (JS), HTML, and CSS
• 2+ years in unit, integration, and e2e testing
• Experience with at least 2 front-end web frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, etc
• Experience with setting up javascript-based tooling such as Webpack
• Capable of refactoring CSS
• Able to manage data in SQL and no-SQL databases
• Experience in leading projects and mentoring team members
• Experienced in balanced technical debt and product features
• Reduces the complexity of event-driven and asynchronous nature of web-based applications

How You’ll Stand Out:

• Has taken a loosely defined idea from the brainstorming phase to production, including the architecture plan, development, and testing process
• Experience in refactoring complex technical debt or design patterns
• Worked on developer tooling such as CI/CD pipelines, observability, metrics monitoring, git hooks, etc.
• Deep knowledge in the video ad tech stack:
• Header bidder with Prebid.js and Google Ad Manager
• Ad tech standards like VAST, VMAP, VPAID, MOAT, GPP, GDPR, TCF, USP
• Familiarity with video streaming protocols and standards like HLS and DASH
• In-depth knowledge of AWS services, including AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, CloudFront, and DocumentDB.
• Experience with MongoDB and/or Snowflake
• Experience in big data and building a reporting pipeline capable of processing gigabytes of data an hour

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