Staff Engineer - Prescreen Solutions

$118,000 - $230,000/Yr

Doubleverify - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

New York, NY

About the position

As a Staff Software Engineer at DoubleVerify, you will take ownership of new initiatives and designs, developing critical application code for a suite of social tools. Your role will focus on ensuring the scalability, reliability, and security of distributed processes and services, while leveraging state-of-the-art technologies to solve complex challenges in data movement from big data systems to customers.

Responsibilities

• Provide both ownership and technical leadership on high-impact projects
• Facilitate team collaboration to ensure alignment on project goals and deliverables
• Demonstrate achievements, highlight milestones, and present innovative solutions to a collaborative engineering team
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions that power our products

Requirements

• Minimum 7-8 years of experience developing server-side software, with a strong focus on API design, data modeling, and complex service-based systems
• Strong desire to help create scalable and user-friendly consumer-facing products
• Proven track record of designing and implementing large-scale, distributed systems
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with REST API design principles and best practices
• Expertise in data modeling and database design
• Experience with event-driven architectures and message queuing systems
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
• Test-driven and metrics-based approach to development and design
• Understanding of security best practices in software design
• Hands-on familiarity with Python and Python-centric frameworks (Django, FastAPI, Flask)
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience mentoring and leading development teams

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with the Google Cloud Platform and BigQuery
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience with event streaming platforms such as Kafka
• Knowledge of ad serving technologies and standards

Benefits

• Bonus/commission eligibility
• Equity opportunities
• Comprehensive benefits package