Job Description

• Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

About Moloco: 

Moloco is a machine learning company empowering organizations of all sizes to grow and unlock the full value of their unique first-party data, elevating the traditional path to performance advertising. While the largest technology companies have proven the speed and scale of ad-targeting utilizing data— the same robust performance powered by machine learning has previously been unavailable beyond their platforms. 

That's where Moloco steps in. With Moloco's powerful combination of cutting-edge machine learning technologies, we play a unique and visible role in shaping the digital economy, all while allowing companies to stay independent and scale.

An industry leader at the nexus of machine learning, performance marketing, and visionary product infrastructure, Moloco is advancing the advertising technology industry. We ranked #95 in the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies for 2022. We ranked #91 among Deloitte’s 2021 Fast 500 and have been certified by 91% of the company via Great Places to Work. Check us out on Glassdoor and be sure to get an inside look at working at Moloco on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube. 

Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, London, Berlin, Seoul, Singapore, Beijing, Gurgaon, and Tokyo. 

Creating a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion and belonging is core to our existence. To reach our goals, diversity of talent and thought is a critical component to how we operate as an organization. Our workforce is our superpower, and we know that fostering a culture of inclusion, authenticity, and belonging will allow us the greatest opportunity to carry out our mission -- to empower businesses of all sizes to grow through operational machine learning.

Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now!

The Impact You'll Be Contributing to Moloco:

Moloco is at the forefront of revolutionizing the digital advertising industry through the power of machine learning. As a Staff Software Engineer at Moloco, you will play a critical role in driving innovation and shaping the future of mobile advertising. We are looking for exceptional engineers who are passionate about building scalable, high-performance systems that solve complex problems in a fast-paced environment.

At Moloco, you will work on building a state-of-the-art mobile advertising platform that leverages the latest advancements in machine learning and big data. You will collaborate with a team of world-class engineers to design and develop infrastructure that is highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable. Our platform uses battle-tested prediction models to help businesses of all sizes achieve their growth goals quickly and efficiently. Be sure to check out our case study published by Google to learn more about our work: https://cloud.google.com/customers/moloco/.

If you are excited about building groundbreaking technology that impacts millions of users worldwide, then Moloco is the place for you.

Here’s what you’ll be working on:

As the founding technical leader for the Performance Ad Server, you will be working with a team of seasoned technology veterans & entrepreneurs to bring this revolutionary new platform to market.

• Drive engineering projects for architecting, designing, developing, and operating an end-to-end service platform for customers looking to leverage Moloco’s ML-driven advertising technology stack, services and infrastructure.
• Build, grow and lead a full stack engineering team responsible for developing enterprise platform products, features & APIs across the entire Moloco PAS technology stack.
• Be responsible for all development & operational aspects of PAS engineering in collaborating with peers in the Product Management, Business Development, and Enterprise Sales teams. Joint activities will include requirement specification, ensuring the quality of products and service operations, and communicating the technical roadmap to enterprise customers.
• Own the communication, coordination, and facilitation of cross-functional PAS engineering projects across Moloco’s engineering organization.
• Help engineering leadership build roadmaps and action plans for the PAS service.
• Identify risks in executing projects and develop mitigation plans & strategies.
• This role reports to the Head of Engineering for India.

Here is what you need to succeed:

• 12+ years of hands-on industry experience in software development on data infrastructure or platform.
• Experience building large scale distributed systems that can handle large data (Terabytes) and millions of users.
• Excellent software development skills and fluency in at least one programming language (preferably Java, Go or Python).
• Experienced team lead. Should be comfortable mentoring senior, mid and junior engineers.
• Outstanding problem-solving skills and strategic planning.
• Experience in Cloud/Big Data platforms (e.g., AWS, GCE, GCP, Beam, Spark, BigTable, BigQuery etc.).

Preferred Skills:

• Interest in monetization or digital advertising technology business.