Vantage

www.gotvantage.com

1 Job

129 Employees

About the Company

Vantage is the leading orchestration layer for retail and commerce media, with a focus on helping enterprise retailers unlock revenue opportunities and drive growth in the fast-evolving media landscape. Vantage is working with the world’s leading retailers to rapidly launch and scale their retail media networks, unify teams and integrate technologies across the business. Vantage offers turnkey, fully scalable, best-in-class retail media networks to drive advertising, promotion, and insight solutions for leading retailers and brands. Our powerful machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) technology provide highly-targeted, automated advertising capabilities at scale. The Vantage technology is designed to help you understand your customers and anticipate their needs by using retailer and shopper intent data to create a holistic view of the shopper at scale. By continually monitoring shopping behavior like previously viewed and purchased products, sites visited and carts abandoned, our technology uses this key data and insight to deliver personalized shopping experiences proven to generate revenue and loyalty.

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Company Name: Vantage
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
Job Description: **Job title** Senior Backend Engineer **Role Summary** Lead design, development, and performance optimization of Python/Django microservices and external API integrations. Serve as a backend subject‑matter expert, mentor teammates, and enforce architectural standards across multiple product lines. **Expectations** - Deliver robust, low‑latency APIs that interact with partner systems. - Ensure database and service performance meet SLAs. - Mentor junior engineers and maintain high code quality. - Proactively identify and eliminate performance risks. **Key Responsibilities** - Own application and database performance: review PRs for query cost, indexing, and data access patterns; drive improvements. - Build and maintain reliable partner connectors (auth, rate‑limit, retries). - Design and ship backend features in Python/Django with predictable latency and high reliability. - Diagnose production issues; lead debugging and improve observability via logs, metrics, and traces. - Create and maintain automated test coverage and clear documentation. - Mentor engineers through pairing, design reviews, and actionable feedback. - Contribute to architectural discussions and solutioning for scalability. **Required Skills** - 6+ years professional software development experience. - Advanced SQL (MySQL/PostgreSQL): query design, indexing, tuning, refactoring. - Strong Python/Django expertise building production services and APIs. - Experience with B2B API integrations, including authentication, rate limiting, and retries. - Cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS, or GCP). - Proven debugging skills using logs, metrics, traces; performance diagnostics. - Understanding of Celery, RabbitMQ, OTEL is a plus. - Excellent code review skills, especially for database performance. - Ability to mentor, pair, and raise team standards. **Required Education & Certifications** - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field (preferred).