Principal Engineer

About Us

VDX.tv is a global advertising technology company with a 25-year track record of innovation. With 400+ team members distributed globally, were pioneering a different way of working - one that emphasizes self-organizing teams, minimal hierarchy, and maximum impact. Our unique approach has resulted in exceptional team retention with an average tenure of 8.1 years - a testament to our distinctive culture and work environment.

The Role

Were looking for Principal Engineers for our platform apps. In this role, youll be part of a team developing the platform apps that engineering teams, business users, and customers utilize. The platforms apps allow business users to set up, manage, and report campaigns with integrations to ad-serving and real-time bidding platforms.

Engineers at VDX.tv develop next-generation products that power our scalable ad tech platform. Our solution enables advertisers across the globe to reach out to their consumers and deliver effective, engaging advertising. Were looking for engineers who are passionate about artificial intelligence, information retrieval, massive data pipelines, UI design, rich media frameworks, data insights, optimization, targeting strategies, and solving large-scale system design challenges.

You will work with a small team of engineers to solve software and infrastructure challenges across multiple platform apps. Youll be expected to play an individual contributor role with high accountability, make a positive impact, and work well both as an individual contributor and a team player. The technical and cross-functional problems in this role require you to develop partnerships with other teams and understand their use cases.

Key Responsibilities

• Work on complex technical projects with peers in an innovative, fast-paced environment.
• Lead, design, and implement new APIs, services, and event-streaming pipelines.
• Improve, manage, and mentor standards for code maintainability and performance in code reviews.
• Evolve CI/CD strategy for deploying and maintaining the APIs and services across applications and multiple data centers.
• Work as a full-stack engineer, with a bias toward learning and adopting new technologies over time.
  

What were looking for

• Hands-on experience in software development
• Bachelors or masters degree in engineering
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with a strong foundation in computer science, including core data structures, algorithms, and analysis of running time and memory requirements
• Ability to develop scalable and reliable software for internet scale
• Ability to create prototypes and examples to demonstrate concepts
• Experience with designing and developing REST APIs and microservices
• Experience with developing and delivering production systems using Java
• Experience with multithreading and concurrency concepts
• Experience with Kafka and data streaming paradigms
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases

What You Get

? Comprehensive Benefits

? Unique Perks:

• Twice-yearly week-long company summits at all-inclusive resorts worldwide
• Every 4-5 years: 4-5 weeks paid transformational leave
• Every 5 years: Additional paid week off for you and your family to celebrate your tenure

? Work-Life Integration:

• Flexible hours to accommodate global collaboration
• True work-from-anywhere policy (US or European time zones preferred)
• Focus on outcomes rather than hours worked
• Strong emphasis on work-life balance

Our Unique Environment

? Remote-first, globally distributed team

? Flat organizational structure with emphasis on self-organizing teams

? No traditional titles or hierarchical reporting relationships

? Focus on outcomes and impact rather than positions or status