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Senior Software Engineer

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Role Overview
The Senior Software Engineer will architect, build, and optimize the high-performance advertising platform, leveraging machine learning and big data to drive significant profitability, efficiency, and scale for Audiohook's core business.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and optimize a performance-based advertising service capable of servicing 10B requests per day.

  • Optimize bidding algorithms using machine learning models to increase profitability by 20% within 3 months of hiring.

  • Architect data pipelines capable of handling big data workloads.

  • Maintain data integrity between the data lake and reporting caches.

  • Reduce data processing costs by 10% within 6 months of hiring.

  • Complete 10-12 story points per week.

  • Present progress and demos in company Standup meetings twice a week.

  • Participate in live team code reviews.

  • Lead monthly "Dev Tricks" and "Lunch and Learn" presentations.

  • Other duties as assigned by supervisor of management.

Qualifications

  • Expert-level mastery of Python, Go, or Node.js. Able to work in Python

  • Takes ownership over product level architecture, projects and personal tasks

  • Collaborative - (Pair programming, white boarding, code reviews, product and business discussions)

  • Present and involved in daily discussions

  • Comfortable with taking calculated risks

  • Understands trade offs between short term profitability and long term stability

Additional Requirements

  • If remote, willing to travel to Utah up to 1 week per month for in-office collaborative work.

  • Understands the strengths and pitfalls of AI Agents and frequently uses them to collaborate on, review and write code.

About working at Audiohook

We are a small, tight-knit team punching way above our weight. Each member is a major player. No room for coasting. We're fully remote, because we hire people who are intrinsically motivated and want to be part of something bigger than themselves. If that sounds like you, we'd love to talk.

Our tech stack:

  • Python (our primary backend language)

  • PostgreSQL

  • Iceberge Datalake

  • Vue.js (front-end framework)

  • AWS Lambda, Firehose, Glue

  • Docker/Dev Ops Container orchestration

What We Offer

  • Flexible remote/hybrid work environment

  • Competitive salary and equity opportunities

  • Performance bonuses

  • 401(k), Health, dental, and vision benefits

  • Other benefits such as daily lunch stipend, monthly wifi, cell phone and subscription reimbursement, and annual hardware stipend

  • Flexible PTO

  • Bi-annual Corporate Offsites

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What this application asks

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Name, Email, Resume

  • If offered a position, are you willing to travel to Utah up to 1 week per month for in-office collaborative work? yes / no
  • Please specify your desired salary: written answer
  • Tell us about a specific time you reduced cloud data processing costs. What levers did you pull, what didn't work, and what was the actual measured result? written answer
  • Tell us about a time you pushed back on a product or architecture decision and lost. What happened, and in hindsight, do you still think you were right? written answer
  • Describe a project where you owned the architecture end-to-end. What is the single decision you're least proud of in hindsight, and what would you do differently? written answer
  • Have you ever caught an AI-generated bug that made it into a code review or production? Describe what it looked like, how you caught it, and what it changed about how you use AI tools. written answer
  • Describe a specific latency or throughput problem you personally debugged in a production system. Walk us through your hypothesis process — and importantly, what you got wrong before you got it right. written answer
  • What is the highest-scale system you've worked on? Give us a rough sense of throughput or data volume, and describe the hardest constraint you personally had to solve for. written answer

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