Vericast is a premier marketing solutions company that accelerates profitable revenue growth for the thousands of businesses it serves directly by influencing consumer purchasing and transaction behavior at scale while engaging with over 120 million households daily.  We are recognized as leading providers of incentives, advertising, marketing services, transaction solutions, customer data and cross-channel campaign management, and intelligent media delivery that create millions of customer touch points annually for their clients.  For more information, visit http://www.vericast.com or follow Vericast on LinkedIn.

Vericast 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

• Managing and leading a team of engineers responsible for the maintenance, performance optimization, and scaling of Hadoop/Kafka clusters.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting Hadoop/Kafka clusters to ensure high availability, performance, and security of data and applications.
• Develop and maintain custom Platform tool kits using Java, Springboot, Python and other programming languages and frameworks.
• Ensuring compliance with security and regulatory standards and implementing best practices for data governance and management.
• Own the quality metrics and operations of our PaaS
• Mentor our engineers and develop their talent
• Contribute to the roadmap for our PaaS
• Be an interface for platform users throughout the company

EDUCATION

• BA/BS in Computer Science or other technical discipline (e.g., Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics) and/or equivalent relevant and high-performing work experience

• 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 with Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Java, and python or other big data platforms

Salary: $150,000 - $160,000 

The ultimate compensation offered for the position will depend upon several factors such as skill level, cost of living, experience, and responsibilities.

Vericast offers a generous total rewards benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401K 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]. EEO is the law. To review your rights under Equal Employment Opportunity please visit: www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf.

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