Senior Backend Engineer

Live Ramp is the data collaboration platform of choice for the world’s most innovative companies. A groundbreaking leader in consumer privacy, data ethics, and foundational identity, Live Ramp is setting the new standard for building a connected customer view with unmatched clarity and context while protecting precious brand and consumer trust. Live Ramp offers complete flexibility to collaborate wherever data lives to support the widest range of data collaboration use cases—within organizations, between brands, and across its premier global network of top-quality partners.

Hundreds of global innovators, from iconic consumer brands and tech giants to banks, retailers, and healthcare leaders turn to Live Ramp to build enduring brand and business value by deepening customer engagement and loyalty, activating new partnerships, and maximizing the value of their first-party data while staying on the forefront of rapidly evolving compliance and privacy requirements.

• Work collaboratively in a small team of engineers developing, maintaining and improving our products.
• Help shape the future of our technology platform.
• Infuse industry best practices into our team processes and development practices.
• Implement integration-specific business logic, including audience/taxonomy synchronization, delivery workflows (batch, streaming, record sync) tuned to partner rate limits, and platform-specific error handling.
• Drive architectural design and implementation of our systems and interfaces.
• Foster a positive environment of integrity, empowerment, initiative, and teamwork.
• Provide operational support for our team’s production systems.
• Work with your team and managers to shape your role into a convergence of the company’s needs and your own capabilities, interests, and desires.
• Help rearchitect our existing systems to provide a more powerful and flexible data delivery pipeline at scale.
• Demonstrate operational excellence supporting our production systems.

• Design, build and scale Live Ramp’s partner data pipelines that helps deliver customers data to partner platforms faster.
• Own Live Ramp’s outbound platform integrations, ensuring seamless connectivity to the world's largest adtech and martech ecosystems.
• Build global solutions that comply with all local regulations.
• Work closely with various internal teams (engineering, product, QE, Dev Ops, SRE) on product delivery.
• Build products that integrate to the rest of Live Ramp’s Data Collaboration Platform.
• Continuously improve the quality, stability, simplicity and performance of our applications and libraries.

• 5+ years of experience writing and deploying high-quality production code.
• Solid Java or Scala (or Golang where appropriate) programming skills.
• 3+ years of hands on experience in managing and optimizing Big Data ecosystems such as Spark, Hadoop/MR, Kafka.
• Distributed Systems Expert:
  Proven track record of delivering end-to-end large-scale projects and contributing to the design of complex architectures.
• API Specialist:
  Deep experience building or consuming RESTful APIs, managing OAuth flows, and handling rate limiting/backoff strategies.
• Experience working with multiple teams to understand the requirements and develop solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to build sustainable technical solutions that verifiably meet specific, well-defined business requirements.
• Experience selecting and using industry-standard open source and/or commercial tools and libraries to solve specific problems.
• Made significant and meaningful development contributions to team projects involving distributed systems operating at scale.
• Experience with GCP or another cloud provider (AWS, Azure, etc.).
• Solid communicator in relevant technical and product concepts.
• Proficiency with Spring Boot.
• Good to have experience in Distributed Databases (e.g. Singlestore).

The approximate annual base compensation range is $127,000 to $191,500. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by a number of factors including the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, geography, as well as internal equity among our team.

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