About the Role
The Payments & Incentives team acts as the financial engine of Quantcast, managing the intersection of complex ad-tech data and precise fintech requirements. The team is responsible for building frictionless payment solutions, operating incentive programs, and managing internal systems that power billing pipelines. This role will integrate efficient payment, billing, and reward programs into Quantcast's advertising platform, focusing on simplifying digital advertising campaigns for customers.
Responsibilities
- Drive engineering initiatives for unified financial reporting and process consolidation, ensuring systems are reliable, monitored, and successfully adopted.
- Lead the design and implementation of robust microservices and APIs to handle payments, incentives, and billing processes.
- Continually engage with internal customers, product owners and business stakeholders to understand and resolve cross-team dependencies and end-user requirements.
- Support the professional development of peers and junior members through constructive feedback on code, system design and engineering processes.
- Manage the resolution of complex on-call incidents, implementing measures to improve long-term system health and financial integrity.
Requirements
- Focus on outcomes: measure success by positive business results and customer adoption.
- Operate with autonomy: take high-level priorities and turn them into actionable, well-defined technical roadmaps without constant supervision.
- Bridge the gap: deeply understand the end-customer use case and translate those requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Advocate for excellence: mentor others and maintain high standards for code quality and operational reliability.
- At least 2 years of experience building and maintaining complex distributed systems, with a focus on microservices and adjacent technologies.
- Experience working vertically across the stack is a significant plus.
- Proficient in Go & Python or a similar modern language, or demonstrate the ability to pick it up relatively speedily.
- Experience designing and implementing APIs and microservices in a high-velocity production environment.
- Possess a deep understanding of observability and the full software development life cycle (SDLC) in an Agile environment.
- Effectively distill complex technical updates into clear, actionable information for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Excel at working across team boundaries and with third parties to untangle dependencies and move projects forward.
- Familiarity with cloud technologies (AWS), messaging systems (Kafka, SQS), or data warehouse tools (Snowflake) is a significant plus.
Skills
- Microservices
- APIs
- Go
- Python
- Observability
- Agile
- AWS
- Kafka
- SQS
- Snowflake
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 2 years of experience building and maintaining complex distributed systems
Education Level
- Degree in Computer Science or an adjacent field (or equivalent nontraditional training)
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
- Performance bonus
- Equity
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
About the Company
- Quantcast revolutionizes advertising technology with its AI-powered Demand Side Platform (DSP), connecting marketers with ideal audiences across the open internet.
- Since 2006, Quantcast has been an industry trailblazer, launching the first AI-powered measurement platform for publishers and the first AI-driven DSP.
- Quantcast's infrastructure handles diverse use cases, from real-time fee breakdowns for campaign forecasting and bidding to unified billing workflows.
- Quantcast is headquartered in San Francisco with offices around the world.
Equal Opportunity
- Quantcast is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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