We are Vericast.  We create meaningful connections between business and the people that they serve-how, when and where it matters. By pushing the boundaries of data and insights, we spark discovery and inspire action to create profitable results.

Valassis is seeking a Manager of Software Engineering for our Big Data Platform Team. Our amazing big data platform was designed in-house, and built from the ground up around Hadoop, Spark, Jupyter, PySpark, and Kafka. It spans multiple computer clusters with many thousands of cores and multiple petabytes of data. Our platform software team:

• develops features on top of the open-source hadoop/spark stack
• produces java services to implement security, data access, scheduling, optimization, and many other features
• owns the reliability, productivity, roadmap, and capital planning for our platform infrastructure
• delivers foundational infrastructure and tools to our data engineering and science teams
• has contributed code back to Apache open-source projects (not log4j)
• participates in the department's greenfield, strategic, and transformational software and platform projects

If you want work with a great team, have high-level input to your own roadmap, and low-level control of delivering a top-notch PaaS product, we want to talk to you. If you want leverage great ideas across many teams of developers to improve digital marketing product delivery, value, and profit, we want to talk to you. If you ever worked on data science, data engineering, or other product teams and thought "we could make this easier", we want to talk to you

Responsibilities

• Lead our software development team
• Mentor our engineers and develop their talent
• Lead our operational team
• Own the quality metrics and operations of our PaaS
• Contribute to the roadmap for our PaaS
• Be an interface for platform users throughout the company

• 5+ years of experience managing software or SaaS teams
• Experience of coaching/mentoring software engineers
• Track record of metrics based organization and product leadership
• Significant enterprise scale, SaaS development experience
• Strong experience supporting or leading data engineering and/or data science
• Strong experience with Hadoop, Spark, Java, and python or other big data platforms

Vericast offers a generous total rewards benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401K matching and flexible PTO. A wide variety of additional benefits like life insurance, employee assistance and pet insurance are also available, not to mention smart and friendly coworkers! 

At Vericast, we don’t just accept differences - we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our clients, and our community. As an Equal Opportunity employer, Vericast considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classifications protected by law. Applicants who have disabilities may request that accommodations be made in order to complete the selection process by contacting our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected] or 616-541-3145.  

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