Solutions Engineer
New York, NY

Job Description

The Role

Solutions Engineers at TripleLift are entrepreneurially minded engineers who leverage their strong technical experience along with business acumen to help internal and external stakeholders achieve their goals. Whether it's writing APIs to allow partners to connect with TripleLift, analyzing the trove of TL data to identify liquidity enhancement opportunities, or meeting directly with partners to improve the platform, the Solutions Engineer is the jack-of-all-trades that owns and executes on the most important initiatives at TripleLift.

The Solutions Engineer has a passion for understanding technology, increasing client happiness, resolving complex technical problems, and empowering other teams. This role is perfect for someone who desires to learn and navigate the full platform to enhance client experience and identify ripe opportunities for improvement. The ideal candidate is a team player who has a positive attitude who can easily switch between pairing with core engineering on technical architecture and collaborating with commercial teams to develop go-to-market strategies.

About TripleLift

TripleLift is building ads that people enjoy.

Advertising is an essential part of the internet. Yet most ads are either never noticed, or are interruptive. We aim to make advertising that's helpful and effective.

We believe that by recreating the advertising experience to be seamless and focused on content, we can usher in a new era of content monetization. All day we are bombarded by ads online, many of which were created over 20 years ago. TripleLift is building the ad experience of the future.

TripleLift is focused on delivering consumer-focused, digital advertising technology that seamlessly integrate native advertising into every channel of content consumption, including web, app, branded content, and connected TV. By utilizing our proprietary computer vision technology, TripleLift is able to dynamically assemble native ads that match publisher content that are accessible through the industry's first real-time, native programmatic exchange.

TripleLift is one of the fastest growing companies in America, and has achieved a diversity of product lines, a leadership position in its industry and is regularly recognized as an innovator in its space - all while being consistently profitable.

Responsibilities

* Working directly with advertiser or publisher clients to deploy commercial and technical solutions that enables them to achieve their goals;
* Creating tools to empower internal and external stakeholders to execute more effectively;
* Maintain a set of TL applications including the internal applications stack, the audit stack, and other client oriented microservices;
* Parse through troves of platform data to identify liquidity unlocking opportunities;
* Pair with product & core engineering teams to ensure platform initiatives are executed;
* Educate various internal groups on the TL platform & serve as liaison between the technical and commercial orgs.

Desired Skills and Attributes

* Technical experience, especially with web technologies. This includes datastores & querying frameworks (MySQL), web foundations (HTML, CSS, Javascript), and production technical stacks;
* Outstanding communication skills, particularly in conveying technical concepts in a manner that is easy for clients and non-technical partners to understand;
* Excellent quantitative skills and comfort with data exploration tools such as Excel, numpy, R, Spark/Scala, etc;
* Demonstrated experience in owning projects end to end that involves coordinating many resources and teams;
* Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail;
* Excellent troubleshooting, analytical and problem-solving abilities with a tenacious commitment to finding the root cause of issues;
* Ability to work under intense pressure and multitask in a fast-paced start-up environment

Education Requirement

* Studies in computer science, engineering, mathematics, economics or technical field.
* Studies in advertising, communications, marketing, or other discipline with demonstrated technical exposure

Experience Requirement

Minimum of 1-4 years of work experience in customer support, technical solutions, engineering, or other technical position.

Benefits and Company Perks