Engineering Team Lead

Pixability is an award-winning ad buying and video marketing platform for YouTube.

* Pixability is looking for startup-minded Team Lead who is inspired to solve interesting problems and deliver great code. If you aren’t afraid of solving complex and challenging technical problems, Pixability is the place for you. * We are looking for someone who can make difficult decisions and take ownership of a problem from end to end. If you have this kind of fire in your gut, talk to us. You will work with a number of cutting-edge technologies and one of the World’s largest Big Data stores - YouTube. You will be asked to architect and develop solutions in areas of distributed performance computing, data processing and analytics.

This is also a fantastic opportunity to bring your technical experience and hands on approach to problem solving to lead a team of highly motivated engineers while promoting engineering best practice at all times. Here are some of the things we look for in candidates: * Successful track record working inside a startup or a small company (agile & dynamic, wearing many hats, excited to build something new and cool, etc) * At least 10 years of experience building backend software. Computer Science degree is required if less than 15 years of experience as a developer overall. * At least 2 years of team management, leadership or team mentorship experience. * You don’t have to be a Python stack services guru, but to really thrive in this role you will need across the board experience : database expertise, back end development techniques with continuous integration and deployment experience - you have to know what can go wrong, in order to fix it. **Required tech skills:** * Solid experience building backend software using a Dynamic programming language (ideally Python but Ruby and others are fine as well). * Comfortable working inside the Linux command line environment. * Expert-level understanding of the SQL language, query performance considerations, schema design and at least one ORM. **Tech skills as a PLUS:** * NoSQL technology such as ElasticSearch, DynamoDB, Hadoop. * Experience working with columnar storage technologies. * Relevant market exposure (Advertising, Marketing). * Experience building Big Data ETL and M/R services. * Knowledge of best practices in areas of scalable, distributed and redundant system architectures. * Exposure to SOA and microservices