Staff Software Engineer

Ibotta is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our innovative team and contribute to our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding by building something great with us. As part of the engineering team you will work on the technology solutions that power our products that are used by millions of consumers. Were looking for a self-motivated engineer who has a real passion for building and running large-scale fault-tolerant applications. Success in this role means not only understanding the right solutions and how to build them but also embracing innovative means of collaborating with and leveraging AI to do so. Every engineer has input into our engineering culture our products and development processes and will have a real impact as part of a small nimble team.

This position is located in Denver Colorado as a hybrid position requiring 3 days in office (Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday). Candidates must live in the United States.

What you will be doing:

• Build products and tools using the right language/tool for the job that drive valuable impact to Ibotta our customers or fellow engineers

• Work collaboratively with a highly talented cross-functional team to design develop and deliver new products and features that will be used by millions of users

• Use Amazons AWS infrastructure and advanced services daily including serverless architectures

• Stay abreast of the ever-changing technology landscape to identify the best tools and technologies to design and build flexible scalable reliable and high-performing applications

• Maintain an agile experimental and iterative approach with a willingness to learn fast in a constantly evolving and uncertain environment

• Decompose complex business problems and requirements into manageable sub-tasks

• Know how to skillfully and judiciously leverage AI to assist with software development

• Know when to choose AI as part of the tech stack and how to use it when building products and operating them in production

• Demonstrate leadership by offering guidance to team members cultivating their technical aptitude and championing best practices within the development process.

• Use Amazons AWS infrastructure and advanced services daily including serverless architectures

• Leverage and contribute to our CI/CD pipeline to deploy code many times daily

• Write tests and participate in code reviews to ensure that were shipping high-quality maintainable code and develop evaluators to verify the quality of non-deterministic outputs

• Own your technical solutions end-to-end from contributing your ideas to first code commit to operating in production

• Embrace and uphold Ibottas Core Values: Integrity Boldness Ownership Teamwork Transparency & A good idea can come from anywhere

What we are looking for:

• 7 years of experience in software development

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Analytics or a related field required

• Mastery of relevant technologies such as Typescript Ruby on Rails Java Kotin Nodejs Vue Swift etc and data stores such as MySQL DynamoDB Redis etc. is valuable but knowing when to use each is far more important

• Deep understanding of data structures algorithms object-oriented design and software architecture.

• Deep understanding of building highly scalable observable and fault tolerant systems

• Mastery of applying core computer science concepts to iterative system design

• Highly skilled in using AI tools for prototyping writing testing debugging and comprehending code and the ability to critically review and improve AI-generated code to meet production standards

• Proficient in context engineering and AI building blocks such as LLM API calls prompting techniques agentic frameworks RAG vector databases and model fine-tuning

• Proven experience with debugging and testing approaches and frameworks from unit testing to automated testing and evaluation driven development

• Proven experience building deploying and operating automated workflows and agents using platforms such as n8n Databricks or similar

• Deep understanding of development best practices including observability alerting and SLOs for services security compliance performance optimization reliability cost efficiency etc.

• Proven experience with cloud platforms such as AWS GCloud or similar and with DevOps best practices and Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform)

About Ibotta (I bought a...)

Ibotta (NYSE: IBTA) is a leading performance marketing platform allowing brands to deliver digital promotions to over 200 million consumers through a network of publishers called the Ibotta Performance Network (IPN). The IPN allows marketers to influence what people buy and where and how often they shop all while paying only when their campaigns directly result in a sale. American shoppers have earned over $2.6 billion through the IPN since 2012. The largest tech IPO in history to come out of Colorado Ibotta is headquartered in Denver and is continually listed as a top place to work by The Denver Post and Inc. Magazine.

To learn more about what our Tech teams are doing day to day visit Building Ibotta on .

Additional Details:

• This position is located in Denver CO and includes competitive pay flexible time off benefits package (including medical dental vision) Lifestyle Spending Account Employee Stock Purchase Program and 401k match. Denver office perks include paid parking snacks and occasional meals.

• Base compensation range: $160000 - $183000. Equity is included in overall compensation package. This compensation range is specific to the United States labor market and may be adjusted based on actual experience.

• Ibotta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Ibottas employment decisions are made without regard of race color religion national origin age sex marital status ancestry physical or mental disability veteran status gender identity sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

• Applicants are accepted until the position is filled.

• For the security of our employees and the business all employees are responsible for the secure handling of data in accordance with our security policies identifying and reporting phishing attempts as well as reporting security incidents to the proper channels.

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