Senior Ruby Engineer

At Digital Turbine, we make mobile advertising experiences more meaningful and rewarding for users, app publishers, and advertisers — intelligently connecting people in more ways, across more devices. We provide app publishers and advertisers with powerful ads and experiences that captivate consumers, fuel performance, and help telecoms and OEMs supercharge awareness, acquisition, and monetization. In a rapidly evolving industry, we are constantly innovating and creating better paths of discovery to connect consumers, publishers, and advertisers across the mobile ecosystem.

Job Description

Software engineers at Digital Turbine ship features that affect millions of users' mobile experiences. You will be creating cutting edge internal and external-facing tools to help analyze billions of events on millions of mobile devices. Each engineering team works with a clear mission in mind, taking accountability for every part of the system from deployment to production. As a Senior Ruby Developer at Digital Turbine, you will be at the forefront of mobile advertising technology, leveraging your expertise to help lead our team through exciting challenges and innovations.

About the role:

• Research the technical feasibility of new ideas and actively suggest technology improvements
• Lead the modernization of our ad tech platform, employing cutting-edge technologies and methodologies to boost system efficiency and performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of developers, data scientists, and product managers to identify complex problems and spearhead the development of innovative solutions.
• Set the standard for code quality and maintainability by conducting thorough code reviews, advocating for best practices in Ruby development, and ensuring comprehensive test coverage.
• Act as a mentor Ruby expert, sharing knowledge and expertise to foster team growth and development.
• Keep abreast of the latest trends and technologies in adtech and Ruby development, leading the charge in applying them to enhance our platform.
• Take charge of maintaining and enhancing our big data adtech system, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and scalability while handling billions of transactions per day

About you:

• Track record in Ruby programming, with a strong portfolio of projects demonstrating proficiency with frameworks such as Ruby on Rails.

• Skilled in developing unit tests and automated tests for your code

• Working experience with MySQL, understands day to day challenges related to query execution and optimization

• Working experience with key/value caches/stores like Redis or Aerospike

• Not scared to go beyond usual Ruby tasks by maintaining and adding additional features to our data pipelines

• Demonstrated experience in software engineering principles, including advanced design patterns, sophisticated code structure, and strategic testing methodologies.

• A deep understanding of big data technologies and architectures, with proven experience managing and scaling large-scale systems is a strong bonus

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with a leadership mindset geared towards tackling complex challenges

• Experience with AWS and or GCP

• A Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent extensive practical experience

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

Preferred Qualifications:

• Significant experience in the ad tech industry, particularly with mobile advertising platforms
• Knowledge of Scala programming language and Apache Spark
• Experience with Python ML libraries
• Experience with JS and frontend development