Senior Backend Engineer

At MNTN, we put our people first, full stop. This allows our company culture to be defined by our team members, and their shared values, like trust, ambition, quality, radical honesty, and compassionate leadership. It’s why we all really love working for the Hardest Working Software in Television™ (and also why we were named one of Ad Age’s Best Places To Work in 2024.)

We pride ourselves on bringing unrivaled performance and simplicity to Connected TV advertising. Our self-serve technology makes running TV ads as easy as search and social and helps brands drive measurable conversions, revenue, site visits, and more. It’s what led MNTN to being named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2023. You can learn more about us and everything we do by visiting https://mountain.com/.

We’re committed to innovation that empowers, not replaces. At MNTN, AI is a tool for growth, enhancing efficiency while keeping a people-first approach. Our goal is to streamline workflows and drive new solutions—without compromising the human element that makes our company great.

So if wanting to do more, own more, and make a bigger impact comes naturally to you, then you may be the person we're looking for to join us in our next stage of growth.

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Integrations team. Our Integrations team powers the systems that move massive amounts of data across our platform. You’ll help build and scale backend systems and data pipelines that move massive amounts of real-time and batch data across internal and external platforms. 

• Work with your engineering squad to design and build a robust platform that will handle terabytes of real-time and batch data flowing through internal and external systems.
• Build high volume and low latency services that are reliable at scale.
• Create and manage ETL/ELT workflows that transform our billions of raw data points daily into quickly accessible information across our databases and data warehouses
• Develop big data solutions using commercial and open-source frameworks.
• Collaborate with and explain complex technical issues to your technical peers and non-technical stakeholders.

• 7+ years of experience related to Java development (Kotlin preferred) in addition to data engineering and modeling complex data
• Strong experience in SQL, data modeling, and manipulating and extracting large data sets.
• Hands-on experience working with data warehouse technologies. Familiarity with building data pipelines and architectures and designing ETL flows.
• Experience building high-quality APIs and working with microservices (Spring Boot, REST).
• Familiarity with data processing frameworks such as Spark
• Familiarity with OLAP systems and big data scaling challenges.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and build tools (Gradle preferred).
• Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, modern design patterns, and OOP principles.
• Experience with AI productivity tools (Cursor, ChatGPT, Copilot) and event streaming (Kafka).
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Written and verbal communication skills to convey complex technical topics to non-technical audiences across the organization

MNTN Perks:

• 100% remote within the US
• Flexible vacation policy
• Annual vacation allowance for travel related expenses
• Three-day weekend every month of the year
• Competitive compensation
• 100% healthcare coverage
• 401k plan
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for dependent, medical, and dental care
• Access to coaching, therapy, and professional development

About MNTN:

Our recruiters will always reach out using an email address ending with @mountain.com OR @mntn.com. If you’re contacted by someone without that address and they mention a Reference Code (which we never use), then that ain’t us folks. Tell those trolls to take a hike–you’re waiting to climb a MNTN.

MNTN provides advertising software for brands to reach their audience across Connected TV, web, and mobile. MNTN Performance TV has redefined what it means to advertise on television, transforming Connected TV into a direct-response, performance marketing channel. Our web retargeting has been leveraged by thousands of top brands for over a decade, driving billions of dollars in revenue.

Our solutions give advertisers total transparency and complete control over their campaigns all with the fastest go-live in the industry. As a result, thousands of top brands have partnered with MNTN, including Build with Ferguson Master, OneWheel, Tarte, Decked, and National University.

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