Senior Engineer (Backend)

Senior Engineer (Backend)

Belfast, UK
Hybrid Schedule (M/F remote, T/W/TH in-office)

At Magnite, we cultivate an environment of continuous growth and collaboration. Our work impacts what millions of people read, watch, and buy, and we’re looking for people to help us tackle that responsibility with creativity and focus.  Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI) is the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising platform. Publishers use our technology to monetize their content across all screens and formats including CTV / streaming, online video, display, and audio. Our tech fuels billions of transactions per day! 

The Team:

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join a team focussing on cross-platform initiatives that supports a globally distributed ad serving system that handles hundreds of billions of requests a day. You have the opportunity to take on project initiatives to improve the delivery of our systems, tackle hard technical challenges, and contribute to a small team of passionate individuals.

In this role you will:

• Participate in the full-stack design, development, testing, release, and maintenance of infrastructure and APIs that support shared services across Magnite platforms

• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with your technical expertise

• Be a creative problem-solver able to design and implement reliable and maintainable solutions to challenging problems

• Write production-ready code and unit tests that meet both system and business requirements

• Respond to feature requests, bug reports, performance issues, and ad-hoc questions

• Work collaboratively with multiple teams to deliver quality software

• Support operation of services in production

• Perform design and code reviews

We’re looking for someone with:

• 4+ years of working as a software engineer
• Strong expertise in object-oriented programming languages in general
• Experience in any of Java / C# / JavaScript / Python
• Understanding of React applications
• Familiarity with authentication and authorization tools and technologies
• The ability to work in sprint or Kanban-based methodologies using project and issue tracking tools like JIRA
• Experience working with source control tools like Git, and development platforms like GitHub/GitLab
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• The ability to demonstrable experience in mentoring engineers
• A visible passion for developing software, creating solutions, and growing people

Our current tech stack:

• JavaScript / Node.js / NestJS / npm
• Terraform / Jenkins / Docker / Kubernetes
• Auth0
• Java / Python / Ruby (Rails)

Comprehensive Perks and Benefits:

●        Holiday Breaks and Quarterly Wellness Days      

●        Equity and Employee Stock Purchase Plan

●        Family-Focused Benefits and Parental Leave

●        Private Medical Insurance

●        Competitive Pension Plan

●        Mobile Phone Subsidy

●        Fitness and Wellness Reimbursement       

Company Culture:

We believe collaboration is essential to success. Magnite’s hybrid schedule includes two days worked remotely (Monday and Friday) and three days on-site (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). Our offices provide lunches, beverages, snacks, training and development, and office events to support your work week.  We also understand you have appointments, families, hobbies, and other commitments. Magnite strives to maintain a healthy work/life integration for all employees so you can bring your best every day - both at work and at home.

Magnite Invests in You:

 ●        Career Development Initiatives and a Career Growth Framework

●        Culture and Inclusion Programs

●        Bonusly Peer-to-Peer Recognition Program

●        Community Service and Volunteer Events

●        Company-Matched Charitable Contributions

●        Wellness Coach and Mental Health Support 

About Us

The world's leading agencies and brands trust our platform to access brand-safe, high-quality ad inventory and execute billions of advertising transactions each month. Anchored in bustling New York City, sunny Los Angeles, mile high Denver, historic London, and down under in Sydney, Magnite has offices across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.

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