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About the Role

Ibotta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to contribute to its mission of making every purchase rewarding. This role involves building innovative technology solutions for products used by millions of consumers, with a focus on large-scale, fault-tolerant applications and leveraging AI for development. Engineers have a significant impact on the company's culture, products, and development processes within a nimble team.

Responsibilities

Build products and tools that drive impact to Ibotta, customers, or engineers, using appropriate technologies.
Collaborate with a cross-functional team to design, develop, and deliver new products and features.
Utilize AWS infrastructure and serverless architectures daily.
Stay updated on technology trends to select the best tools for designing flexible, scalable, reliable, and high-performing applications.
Maintain an agile, experimental, and iterative approach, with a willingness to learn quickly in a dynamic environment.
Decompose complex business problems and requirements into manageable sub-tasks.
Skillfully and judiciously leverage AI to assist with software development.
Determine when to incorporate AI into the tech stack and how to use it for product building and production operations.
Provide guidance to team members, cultivate their technical aptitude, and champion best practices.
Leverage and contribute to the CI/CD pipeline for frequent code deployments.
Write tests and participate in code reviews to ensure high-quality, maintainable code, and develop evaluators for non-deterministic outputs.
Own technical solutions end-to-end, from ideation to production operation.
Uphold Ibotta’s Core Values: Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency, & A good idea can come from anywhere.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in software development.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics, or a related field.
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, with the ability to critically review and improve AI-generated code.
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).
Love to teach and learn from co-workers.
Seek opportunities for continuous self-challenge and engineering development.
Be product-minded with a deep capacity to understand customers and determine appropriate product and design requirements.
Understand that communication is a significant part of software engineering responsibility and practice it daily.
Understand that testing code is a critical aspect of software engineering.
Respect diverse perspectives and enjoy collaborating with other engineers to solve complex problems.
Understand that delivering products incrementally provides more value to the business.
Trust teammates and embrace healthy conflict and debate, prioritizing correctness over being right.

Skills

Typescript
Ruby on Rails
Java
Kotin
Nodejs
Vue
Swift
MySQL
DynamoDB
Redis
Data Structures
Algorithms
Object-Oriented Design
Software Architecture
Scalable Systems
Observable Systems
Fault Tolerant Systems
AI Tools
Context Engineering
LLM API Calls
Prompting Techniques
Agentic Frameworks
RAG
Vector Databases
Model Fine-tuning
Debugging
Testing
Unit Testing
Automated Testing
Evaluation Driven Development
Automated Workflows
Agents
n8n
Databricks
Observability
Alerting
SLOs
Security
Compliance
Performance Optimization
Reliability
Cost Efficiency
AWS
GCloud
DevOps
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform

Location

Denver, Colorado

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Staff
7+ years

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics or a related field

Salary/Compensations

$160,000 - $183,000

Benefits

Competitive pay
Flexible time off
Medical, dental, vision insurance
Employee Stock Purchase Program
401k match
Paid parking
Snacks
Occasional meals

About the Company

Ibotta is a leading performance marketing platform that enables brands to deliver digital promotions to over 200 million consumers through the Ibotta Performance Network (IPN).
The IPN allows marketers to influence purchasing decisions and pay only for sales generated by their campaigns.
American shoppers have earned over $2.6 billion through the IPN since 2012.
Ibotta was the largest tech IPO in history to come out of Colorado.
The company is headquartered in Denver and is consistently recognized as a top workplace by The Denver Post and Inc. Magazine.
Tech teams' daily activities can be explored on Building Ibotta on Medium.com.

Equal Opportunity

Ibotta is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Ibotta’s 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.