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Audiense is an equal opportunity employer, and we know it's our differences that make us great! We want to welcome people from all backgrounds to our family. We encourage Black, Brown, LGBTQ+, Disabled, Mums and Dads to apply!
During the application process please feel free to share which pronouns you use (she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs). Let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments for the application or the interview.
At Audiense we process more than one thousand million social profiles. We enrich them by applying several classification and segmentation algorithms to help customers such as Twitter, Telefónica, DHL, and Puma to define their marketing campaigns, identify influencers and discover new market niches.
Our challenge is to optimize the intake, enrichment and storage of that growing data asset whilst keeping the insights computing to be as close as possible to real-time.
For that, we have a pipeline that ingests data from an enriching system mainly written in Node.js. This system consumes from many third-party APIs and applies algorithms to infer new characteristics. This pipeline is able to update a data lake of more than 100 TB that is used to generate reports for our customers using Spark and Scala.
But our users are not only our direct customers. We have a strong partnership program that we empower via a private API. This API is still in beta but already has more than 200 customers and a lot of potential for development.
All our stack is hosted in AWS, we mainly use Docker (ECS), EC2 and Lambda to execute our source code and a wide range of services like SQS and SNS for communication via events. We use a variety of software from the AWS ecosystem like S3, Athena, Redshift, RDS, ElastiCache, Codebuild, Cloudwatch WAF, ElasticMapReduce, Kinesis and mainly managed via Terraform.
We have a remote-first style work culture, and we have been working 100% remotely for more than 7 years. Although we have an office in Córdoba, our teams (management, sales, customer service, product, marketing and engineering) are distributed across different cities: London, Málaga, Madrid, Córdoba, Barcelona, Vigo, Seville, Granada, Murcia, Chieti (Italy)...
Our mindset, workflows and communication assumes that we are all remote. Almost everything is documented in Github: growth plans, learning path, architecture, protocols, onboarding, playbooks, design system, UX guidelines, etc. We invest everything in our power to automate our daily routines so that we can be as autonomous as possible to allow us to work remotely efficiently.
You will be joining a cohesive team (more than 4 years on average together) in a very collaborative environment in which you will feel cared for from the start of your onboarding.
Each team applies different agile methodologies but all follow some basic principles. Prioritize the features that bring the most value to our customers and, instead of setting deadlines, we deliver small increments so that we always have a functional and deliverable version of the feature. We try to keep the number of tasks in parallel to a minimum where possible. We have a few meetings scheduled, but we will not miss the daily meetings, biweekly sprint planning and reviews. We have regular 1:1s with the manager and the CTO, and we do not hesitate to jump on to a hangout if a Slack or mail thread is getting too long.
We believe in extreme programming as a development technique so most of the time we do pair programming (yes, remotely) and TDD is our main tool for writing robust and testable code. Pair programming always helps us trust our code allowing for constant iterations. Once per sprint we spend time on joint code review to detect possible glitches to prioritize. We do continuous integration and we are in the process of extinguishing the branches to do trunk base development, there is a challenge here too.
We have a culture of continuous learning and we encourage this to happen during working hours. As a team we have made a pact of following a learning path, so by joining Audiense, you are committing to it too. If you have followed a similar path, we are eager to get to know you and learn from your experiences, if you haven’t, we are looking forward to supporting you with resources, time and mentoring so that we are aligned.
We are moving from a culture of silos towards a more t-shaped mentality. We are not looking for full-stack developers but for someone that no matter what his/her vocation is, to be versatile enough to assume the tasks that provide most value to our customers instead of the ones that better fit their skills.
You can learn more about our culture on our engineering blog and our Instagram account.
We are looking for someone with experience in:
Our stack as we develop in SRE is wide: Python, RabbitMQ, Redis, PMM, Docker, AWS (EC2, ECS, SNS, SQS, API Gateway, Cognito, Lambda, Redshift, DynamoDB, Codebuild, Cloudwatch, ...), OpenVPN, Jenkins, Icinga, Grafana, Graphite, Terraform, Cloudformation, Puppet, Errbot (slack bot). However, mastering them all is not a requirement. We are more interested in the principles behind them.
Speaking of our data sizes, we have MySQL clusters, Aurora Mysql, MongoDB and Solr with diverse use cases, from a cluster with one table and billions of rows to clusters with hundreds of millions of tables with a varying number of rows (hundred to millions). As a result, we use multiple database architectures from simple primary/secondary to shards with multiple nodes.
We believe in programming in pairs and despite being remote. We spend part of the week pairing, so we hope you feel comfortable with this practice. We also collaborate with other teams to remain aligned with product evolution, developmental requirements and to learn from incidents through postmortems.
We invest our time and support in helping each other towards continuous learning, so it is very important that you want to learn and continue practising the skills necessary to run our profession. Practise, practise, practise!
Working remotely has many advantages but also requires an extra effort of communication and responsibility, so we understand that the following skills are essential: self-management, fluid communication, respect, and inclusiveness.
We are following infrastructure as code, TDD and managed database cluster products like RDS from AWS.
Audiense enables innovative organizations to understand and apply the power of audience segmentation and insights by reinventing the use of compliant social data to make it more strategic and connect it with the business/marketing strategy to be relevant and deliver results.
Audiense’ advanced data science platform has attracted many premium clients such as Twitter, Telefónica, Puma and DHL. We have also developed important partnerships with Twitter and IBM. We are one of only two Twitter Official Partners certified for both data analysis and advertising, which ensures our clients can gather deep insights and then get the most from their investment in Twitter with advanced micro-targeting. We are also partnered with IBM Watson, which helps enrich our database with cognitive analysis, including personality, image and sentiment intelligence. This gives our clients an edge over their competitors as they can gather rich, detailed insights on audiences that matter to their business in real-time.
Founded in 2011 by Javier Burón and Alfredo Artiles, Audiense has offices in London, UK and Córdoba, Spain, and currently has 25 employees of which more than half are within engineering and product.
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