Company Description

Goloot is a performance-driven platform that connects brands with top commerce content publishers, helping businesses reach and engage over 50 million shoppers. By centralizing commerce content across premium publishers, newsletters, and creator blogs, Goloot guarantees exposure in trusted editorial environments while ensuring that brands only pay for measurable actions. Using proprietary gamified ad units embedded in more than 70,000 commerce-related articles, Goloot offers an easy-to-use and transparent solution for scaling customer acquisition. The platform proudly supports leading retail and e-commerce brands like Google Workspace, Vistaprint, Crocs, and SiriusXM.

Role Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Goloot, you will be collaborating on a wide range of key product initiatives, including our adserver, data management, analytics, platform (GCP) and application layers. We are looking for a passionate, self-starter individual who doesn’t shy away from a challenge, who is constantly curious and who can have a measurable impact on the development practices. Goloot has a small but committed engineering team. Being a startup, everybody brings an important contribution to prioritization and direction: best ideas win, and impact matters.

Some initiatives you may be contributing to:

• Data Management Platform: Design and implement services that collect and store data for campaign activation and analytics. This also includes building and maintaining API integrations with third-party platforms.
• Data Governance Framework: Articulate, implement and drive adoption internally of technology surrounding security, access, retention and health of data. This includes processes as well as the underlying technology.
• Adserving: Collaborate on initiatives related to campaign delivery, tracking the proper events as required by our analytics team, integrating with third-party APIs throughout delivery (e.g.: postback events), ensuring that the systems are reliable and scalable.
• DevEx: In collaboration with the rest of the team, elaborate and implement development workflows that have an impact on speed of development, and reliability of our systems. Initiatives here include, for example, infrastructure as code, or proper CI/CD pipelines.
• Goloot for Advertisers, Goloot for Publishers customer-facing applications: Contribute to product initiatives with a direct impact on Goloot’s customers; drive features end-to-end with the rest of the team, ensuring that all the pieces ship with coordination (from front-end, back-end and everything around it – proper resource allocation in GCP, proper auth, security, etc.), and that the result is cohesive, and high-quality.
• Analytics and reporting: Implement new data source integrations (e.g.: API integrations, or other methods of collecting data in BigQuery) to enable the data team to build kickass reports.

The technology stack at a glance: it all runs on GCP; applications are built in React/NodeJS (Postgres DB, Firestore), the backend is largely in Golang. The datalake is in BigQuery.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain high quality Go and Typescript (NodeJS backend) code, directly contributing to product initiatives;
• Support and maintain the GCP ecosystem (inclusive of monitoring, scaling, costs, etc.); 
• Introduce and implement dev tools and practices for the team (devex), for example, CI/CD – deployments, testing, IaC, etc.;
• Contribute to the roadmap exercise, including identifying areas for investment, with the ability to assess the impact;
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of backend systems;
• May occasionally contribute to front-end development (e.g.: fixing minor bugs end-to-end).

Requirements:

• 8+ years of software development experience;
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field (or equivalent work experience);
• Strong hands-on experience with the GCP ecosystem and best practices, experience managing and implementing internal processes or tooling like CI/CD, IaC, Auth, etc.
• Strong knowledge of Go, Node (Typescript for application backend);
• Knowledge of databases, SQL a must, NoSQL a plus (Postgres, BigQuery, Firestore);
• Experience designing systems and interfaces;
• Strong communication skills, track record of influencing teams;
• Self-starter, ability to constantly identify opportunities, doesn’t wear blinders: thinks outside the box, result-oriented.

Bonus:

• Experience in martech/adtech;
• Experience with data pipelines (Dataform, BigQuery, etc.);
• Knowledge of privacy frameworks and laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.);
• Some knowledge of React/JS (front-end: MaterialUI), Python (data analytics).

Why Goloot

• Senior-level ownership and autonomy
• Strong product-market fit with agencies
• Competitive salary
• Equity participation to build long-term financial outcomes
• Fully Remote
• Flexible work schedule and generous time off policies