Scala Software Engineer

About Us

Permutive is the data collaboration platform that powers the advertising ecosystem.

We exist to build an advertising ecosystem that respects and adapts to consumers choices around their privacy and in doing so unlocks enormous uplifts in scale and outcomes for publishers and advertisers alike.

Trusted by 60% of Enterprise Media Companies across the US EMEA and LATAM we work with leaders such as News Corp Warner Bros Discovery Hearst Conde Nast dmg media BuzzFeed and The Guardian. Our technology enables them to drive >$1B in advertising spend across hundreds of millions of users without compromising user privacy.

Permutive works with many of the largest Advertisers enabling them to collaborate with Publishers to triple their audience reach and drive a doubling in incremental sales including with advertisers such as Sky Dentsu and Apple.

We leverage patented edge technology AI and cloud collaboration to safely process data where it is and our platform combines privacy-safe DMP data clean room and curation capabilities to unlock unmatched scale and precision for publishers advertisers agencies and retail media networks.

At Permutive Youll Help Our Customers:

• Achieve Better Outcomes: Leverage our unique position in the ad tech ecosystem to access broader audiences and improve outcomes.

• Boost Sales Significantly: Capitalize on 100% addressability to connect with the 70% of audiences beyond traditional cookies.

• Transform Collaboration Efficiency: Move from lengthy processes to seamless collaboration in minutes.

Join us as a key player in shaping the future of Permutive backed by leading investors like Softbank and EQT Ventures and recognised as a YCombinator Top 150 company.

About the Role...

Permutive is looking for two Software Engineers to join us on the journey of revolutionising the way businesses leverage their data. Youll be part of a team that creates cutting-edge solutions that empower our customers to unleash the full potential of their first-party and partner data within the Permutive platform.

Youll have the opportunity to work with a wide range of technologies tackling complex challenges and building functionality that solves previously impossible problems for our customers to deliver measurable value through our platform.

Youll be eager to take full ownership of the development process from start to finish building new product features whilst showcasing a proactive approach to coding testing deploying and monitoring innovative solutions that will drive our platform forward.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact on the future of data-driven marketing.

Our Teams and Technologies

Were 30 engineers working to build an outstanding engineering culture so that everyone who joins has the opportunity and the support to do the best work of their life. Small autonomous teams are important to us and we want to empower everyone to makeand be accountable fordecisions through ownership.

Everything we build has to scale: our platform handles more requests each day than there are new tweets and Google searches and each month we serve more than 2 billion user devices. We think applying functional programming techniques like compositionality and type-safety is the best way to build the type of massively distributed system our platform comprises allowing us to move fast without sacrificing quality.

What youll be doing

You will contribute to the full lifecycle of our platform working on everything from core infrastructure to customer-facing features. This involves building scalable data pipelines and backend services while also developing the product functionality that brings our data to life. Your work could range from creating APIs for our user interface to exploring AI-powered recommendations and automation all while collaborating with product and engineering teams on an infrastructure that processes over 7.5 million datapoints per second.

We would love to hear from Software Engineers that have knowledge or an interest in working with some of the technologies we use:

• Scala: cats cats-effect http4s fs2 circe doobie

• Infrastructure: Kubernetes Kafka Bigtable BigQuery Flink Postgres Grafana Terraform

What youll need

• Understanding of functional programming and general software engineering concepts.

• Experience with Scala programming.

• An interest for platform engineering: designing and building the reliable large-scale systems that other teams build upon.

• A strong sense of ownership driving features and projects from concept through to production and beyond.

• Good communication skills with an ability to discuss technical concepts clearly.

• A proactive curiosity-driven mindset for solving problems with a keen interest in leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity.

Wed be particularly excited if you have one or more of the below

• Some experience or familiarity with messaging systems (e.g. Kafka or Kinesis).

• Familiarity with distributed data stores (e.g. Bigtable DynamoDB).

• Familiarity with building and deploying microservices on Kubernetes perhaps using tools like Terraform.

• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.

• Familiarity with functional Scala libraries e.g. Fs2 Http4s Cats or Doobie

• An interest in stream processing frameworks (e.g. Spark Beam or Flink) or modern data warehouse architectures (e.g. Snowflake Databricks).

What were offering

We take a structured objective approach to salary-setting which is based on market information our compensation strategy and your experience and capability as assessed through our interview process. For a typical candidate who meets our requirements we would pay between 70000 - 80000 options.

Permutive Benefits

• In this together: As a full-time employee youll become a shareholder with stock options sharing in our collective success.

• Family Comes First: Primary caregivers receive up to 6 months of fully paid leave and secondary caregivers receive 3 months of fully paid leave to bond with their little ones.

• Your Time Your Way: Flexible hours let you fit work around your life whether its hitting the gym meditating or handling family needs.

• Upgraded Workspace: A 350 budget helps you create the perfect home office setup.

• Recharge & Refocus: Unlimited paid time off (with a minimum of 25 days public holidays) ensures you get the rest you need.

• Grow with Us: Ongoing training and development opportunities fuel your career aspirations.

• Mental Health Matters: We prioritise your well-being with free access to Spill our mental health partner.

• Comprehensive Care: Enjoy virtual GP visits healthcare services work-life consultations.

• Secure your future: Our pension plan with Penfold helps you secure your financial future (employer contributes 3% employee contributes 5%).

• A company-paid Cursor Pro subscription for all engineers.

Work Your Way

Permutive trusts you to manage your time and deliver results. Our hybrid model allows you to choose where you work best whether in your own productive space or our London (Farringdon) or New York (Union Square) offices. That said none of us work alone; we are part of a team.

To foster collaboration and connection teams in these locations come together in person at least once a week and are encouraged to benefit from being in our offices to meet with teams more often. Commercial and customer-facing teams are encouraged to embrace in-person interactions to build lasting relationships with clients and colleagues.

Every Permutive employee gets together in person at the companys Annual Kick Off for a week in February. Each years event promises to be an exciting opportunity for us to come together reconnect with colleagues and align on our shared vision for the year ahead.

Diversity Equity & Inclusion

At Permutive were taking a thoughtful intersectional long-term approach to diversity equity & inclusion. We care deeply about creating an inclusive work environment that allows everyone to flourish and we are taking continual action to progress in that direction.

Were committed to hiring people regardless of race religion colour national origin sex (including pregnancy childbirth and related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity age neurodiversity status disability status or otherwise.