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About the Role

Movable Ink is seeking a Lead Engineer to set the technical direction for its new Orchestration team, which is building the next-generation AI decisioning layer. This role involves shaping the platform's architecture, leading hands-on design and implementation, and working at the intersection of distributed systems and machine learning with high executive visibility.

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture, design, and critical implementation decisions for the orchestration platform.
Design and build a scalable, event-driven, fault-tolerant distributed system for real-time messaging decisions.
Own key system components end-to-end, including architecture, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
Conduct design reviews, resolve architectural tradeoffs, and uphold high standards for system design, code quality, testing, and operational rigor.
Collaborate with Product, Machine Learning, Data Platform, and adjacent engineering teams to translate requirements into technical designs.
Ensure platform reliability at scale through observability, metrics, incident response, and shared on-call responsibilities.
Serve as the senior technical voice, mentoring engineers and modeling strong engineering practices.

Requirements

7+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on distributed systems.
Deep experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems that are fault tolerant, highly available, and highly concurrent.
Strong systems thinking with sound architectural judgment around event-driven, stateful, real-time decisioning systems.
Skill at building complex systems, identifying core primitives, making sound architectural choices under uncertainty, and adapting designs as requirements evolve.
Experience building and operating backend services in a modern cloud environment (Google Cloud Platform).
Proficiency with container orchestration (Kubernetes).
Hands-on experience with microservice and service-oriented architectures, including inter-service communication patterns (gRPC and Kafka).
Strong foundation in Python.
Practical experience evaluating and designing for distributed systems fundamentals: consensus, partitioning, replication, back-pressure, idempotency, and failure handling.
Exemplary software engineering practices (system design, code review, testing, CI/CD).
Strong focus on operational excellence, including observability, incident response, and healthy on-call practices.
Strong technical leadership skills, with the ability to drive architectural decisions, lead design reviews, and mentor other engineers.
Exceptional problem-solving skills, including the ability to efficiently identify, analyze, and resolve complex issues in production systems.
Clear communicator who can translate technical tradeoffs into practical decisions with product and engineering stakeholders.

Skills

Python
Distributed Systems
Event-Driven Architecture
Fault Tolerance
High Availability
Concurrency
Real-time Decisioning
Cloud Environments (GCP)
Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)
Microservices
Service-Oriented Architectures
gRPC
Kafka
Observability
Incident Response
System Design
Code Review
Testing
CI/CD
Technical Leadership
Problem-Solving
Communication

Location

New York City

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

7+ years of software engineering experience

Salary/Compensations

$147,300 - $192,000 CAD/year

Benefits

Additional bonus depending on the position ultimately offered
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits

About the Company

Movable Ink scales content personalization for marketers through data-activated content generation and AI decisioning.
The world’s most innovative brands rely on Movable Ink to maximize revenue, simplify workflow and boost marketing agility.
Headquartered in New York City with close to 600 employees, Movable Ink serves its global client base with operations throughout North America, Central America, Europe, Australia, and Japan.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture where all Inkers can thrive.
If you’re excited about the role but don’t meet all of the abovementioned qualifications, we encourage you to apply.
Our differences bring a breadth of knowledge and perspectives that makes us collectively stronger.
We welcome and employ people regardless of race, color, gender identity or expression, religion, genetic information, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ethnicity, family or marital status, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, disability, Veteran status, or other protected characteristics.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.