Senior Software Engineer

Applecart is the leading technology company creating a new category of “Decision Maker Marketing”. The most important decisions are made by the hardest people to reach and influence. Historically, C-suite leaders have lacked the tools to reach the stakeholders that matter most to their business. The C-suites of hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, major agencies, trade associations, nonprofits, and governments use Applecart to put their best content in front of business critical decision makers and those they trust —  from policymakers and investors to CEOs, key employees, members of the media and more. Decision makers are informed by what they read, learn from advisors, hear from colleagues, and discuss with family and friends. To break through to them, you must reach them through the only channel that really moves them: those they know and trust. Applecart’s platform uses publicly available or fully permissioned data to map billions of social relationships between nearly every American adult and enable clients to deliver content directly to decision makers and those that matter most to them. 

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer in our New York City office.

About the Role:

As a Sr Software Engineer on the Data Products team, you will grow Applecart’s data-mining capabilities to enable ever more powerful connections inside decision-maker networks. To achieve this goal, you will contribute ETL pipelines, APIs and algorithms within a service-oriented software architecture.  You will join a hybrid-remote team of skilled and collaborative software engineers dedicated to the continuous delivery of business value.

Who You Are

You are an experienced, versatile software developer who feels energized working in an ambitious startup environment. You enjoy collaboration and are eager to broaden your skills in all directions. You are an effective communicator with peers as well as non-technical stakeholders of all levels. You are a good listener first and highly adaptable but are also willing to challenge the status quo when needed.

What You Will Do

• Collaborate closely with engineers, often through pair programming, to develop and review well-tested, scalable code across various domains, including full-stack development, infrastructure, and data engineering
• Mentor junior team members to enhance code quality and foster professional growth within the team
• Engage with the Product and UX to analyze user issues and devise effective solutions. Assist in defining project requirements and organizing workstreams
• Participate actively in architectural discussions, contributing insights to guide technical design decisions
• Maintain expertise in industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure cutting-edge development practices

Experiences and Capabilities You Bring:

• You have 8+ years of professional software development experience
• You have mastered software development for the cloud, leveraging AWS 
• You excel at infrastructure-as-code
• You understand the value of strong DevOps and are always working towards improving tools and development environments
• You are a technical leader who leads by example with design, refactoring, testing, debugging and troubleshooting skills
• You are a natural collaborator, adept at pair programming and working with a product manager
• You have contributed to the design of complex systems such as SOAs
• You have mastered multiple backend programming languages
• You have strong computer science fundamentals and know development best practices (e.g. agile, “clean” code, test-driven development, CI/CD, etc…)
• You are an excellent technical communicator

Preferred Qualifications:

• Your language of choice is Python
• You have data engineering experience, e.g. Apache Spark
• You have had some exposure to front-end development and React
  
  

This is a hybrid role. Work from anywhere on Monday and Friday and in Applecart’s New York City office Tuesday through Thursday. 

Compensation:

Our compensation package consists of three components: (i) a base salary, (ii) annual cash bonus, and (iii) generous equity compensation.

The base salary range for this role is between $160,000-200,000, based on the candidate's experience and skills relative to the requirements listed above. The salary range provided is exclusive of discretionary annual cash bonus and equity compensation. The salary range provided for this role is specific to candidates located in the New York City area.

A few facts about us:

• Applecart’s platform has been used by hundreds of industry-leading clients spanning Fortune 500 companies like Blackstone and Intuit, leading nonprofit organizations like the Environmental Defense Fund, and top-tier communications and public affairs firms like Teneo, Sard Verbinnen, and Weber Shandwick.
• Applecart is growing quickly — 2023 was the fourth year in a row that we doubled the previous year’s bookings. 
• Our senior leadership team includes two members of the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Marketing and Advertising, the former Head of Product at Moat, Oracle’s online ad measurement platform, a former senior White House advisor, an early sales leader at Google and Twitter, two of the Democratic Party’s most successful pollsters and strategists, and alums of top-tier organizations like Bain, Amazon and Simpson Thacher.
• Our investors include global sports, entertainment and marketing giant Endeavor, KKR Co-Founder Henry Kravis, entrepreneur Chris Burch, a founder of Palantir, senior engineering leaders at Twitter and Yelp, former Fortune 50 and advertising agency CEOs, and a number of well-known venture capitalists. Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel and Owl Capital Managing Partner Jennifer Fonstad serve on our board.
• Our work has been featured on Morning Joe on MSNBC, BloombergTV and The Colbert Report, and in Axios, BusinessWeek, the Associated Press, Forbes, the Washington Post, and Politico, among many others.