Backend Engineer Data Products

We shaped the earliest forms of ad tech and were looking for the technical expertise to help shape its future. Our customers have unique problems that can only be solved at internet scale and thats where the technical skills of our team make a real difference.

Our exchange handles over 500 billion requests every day (for comparison Google serves an estimated 9 billion searches a day) all running in our own global data centers. Every member of our technology team has an enormous amount of autonomy in building and managing our systems to support and enable our growing level of scale. Through the transparency of our technology dedication to innovation and integrity and longstanding customer relationships we lead through change.

Whats it like to work at Index

We have more than 550 Indexers around the globe dedicated to building a safe and transparent marketplace that provides a trusted experience for consumers.

Index is an exciting and fastpaced place to work. Were built on our values of change support learning and teaching trust and intention. We pride ourselves on our independence and openness not only in our technology but in our teams too. Our diverse and inclusive culture celebrates how we can leverage our unique differences to help drive Index forward.

Our culture of success is truly supportive and collaborative. In working together across our teams were continually investing in the people and technology to solve the industrys most complex problems. As we extend the promise of ad tech to every channel were looking for talented engineers to help advance Index and the industry forward.

Are you ready to join the programmatic evolution

Index Exchange funds the open web. Content and journalism across the internet are funded through advertising and we are the engine that helps to make that happen transparently safely and efficiently. Handling hundreds of billions of auctions per day within milliseconds requires an intense understanding of the exchange and the ecosystem that we live in.

Our business is growing significantly every year and is poised to grow even faster. Our people and our platforms are the foundation and enabler of that growth. We are significantly expanding our technology teams and are looking for technologists with a passion for high performance software development and a drive to deliver software products and platforms that enable and empower industries at a global scale.

About The Role:

A software engineer grows and maintains a deep knowledge of how software components and broader system architecture come together to deliver expected features. Youll be expected to investigate independently and ask for help when youhit an obstacle. You easily apply technology principles and design techniques based on the experience youhave accumulated allowing youto contribute to complex designs as well as make suggestions for implementing improvements in any given piece of code.

Heres What Youll be Doing:

• Youll be working on cutting edge programmatic ad tech systems that handle hundreds of billions of transactions every day
• The systems and tools youll be working on allow our partners to easily interact with our exchange including work on OpenSource projects
• Designing writing and testing robust and reliable code
• Working closely with product to deeply understand the domain and identify opportunities for improvements
• Finding practical technological solutions
• Analyzing and estimating work in an agile environment
• Fostering a collaborative environment by bringing people together to come up with better designs and approaches to complex problems
• Suggest promote and implement improvements to coding standards and practices

Heres What You Need:

• Minimum of 5 years of handson experience as a backend software engineer
• Positive attitude and ability to learn (new technologies new ways to work)
• You are teamoriented and embrace change.
• Excellent problemsolving skills the ability to think differently and an understanding that compromise negotiation and practicality are important qualities
• Experience working with data products: data APIs and data reporting
• Understanding and hands on experience with all aspects of developing endtoend web applications and microservices. This includesarchitecting coding debugging optimizing/refactoring automated testing and deploying of APIs
• Our codebase runs onGoLang but we are happy to talk to engineers who are proficientin any backend technologyand willing to learn.
• Modular extensible reusable maintainable performant and testable code
• Automated testing platforms and unit tests
• General computer science / engineering knowledge:Algorithms design patterns software architecture etc.

Why Youll Love Working Here:

• Comprehensive health dental and vision plans for you and your dependents
• Paid time off health days and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules
• Competitive retirement matching plans
• Equity packages
• Company contribution to Provident Fund
• Monthly internet stipend
• Generous parental leave available to birthing nonbirthing and adoptive parents
• Annual wellbeing allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities
• Commuter benefits and discounts where available
• Employee assistance program
• Mental health first aid program that provides an inthemoment point of contact and reassurance
• One day of volunteer time off per year and a donationmatching program
• Biweekly town halls and regular communityled team events
• Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning
• A workplace that supports a diverse equitable and inclusive environment learn more here

Notification

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We remain dedicated to resolving this matter and we appreciate your support.

Equal employment opportunity

At Index Exchange we believe that successful products are built by teams just as diverse as the audience who uses them. As such we are committed to equal employment opportunities. We celebrate diversity of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity or expression or veteran status. Additionally we realize that diversity is deeper than any status or classificationdiversity is the human experience. For those who show grit passion and humilityIndex will welcome you.

Accessibility for applicants with disabilities

Index Exchange welcomes and encourages individuals with disabilities to apply to work with us.

If you require an accommodation pleasesharethe details of your request and any information how we can assist you with thehiring recruiter when they contact you. Index Exchange will make reasonable efforts toensure accommodation requests are metthroughoutthe recruitment process.

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Our corporate headquarters are in Toronto with major offices in New York Montreal Kitchener London San Francisco and many other global cities. As a major global advertising exchange we are committed to operating as a tightly knit global team and embracing and empowering talent wherever our colleagues may be.