Engineering
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While the question may come from our clients, our partners, or any of our people, the answer always starts with Engineering.
An Emphasis on Engineering Excellence
From the outset, we’ve had big dreams for what Fluency could achieve. Building a healthy and sustainable organization centered around a thriving working environment where imagination, intellect, and innovation have free rein is part of that vision.
We won’t get there by taking shortcuts; the success of the company is hard earned—not given— and we define that success on delivering real, relevant, tangible value to clients. We believe that making an advertising execution platform that allows our clients to configure automation is key to delivering that value. To do so effectively, there must be interconnects between existing systems and our platform, in terms of both inputs and outputs. In order to achieve this, we’ve made Engineering central to all our efforts.
Our Engineering teams operate with a set of guiding principles that cover everything from clear definitions of "business value" to core application ideals. Among these principles, we see the following as mission-critical:
- We will help improve our clients businesses’ profitability, while making digital advertising attractive and attainable for their customers, by keeping SMB Advertising management overhead minimized.
- We will bring unparalleled efficiencies to today’s inefficient business processes.
- We will work to improve operational excellence by ensuring proper checks and balances are taken.
- We will be the enabler for our clients to unlock new and compelling opportunities to generate revenue.
- Our application must provide fast access to common workflows.
- Although we will provide recommendations and guidance, our application must empower our clients, not being overly restrictive.
- We will make our software do what software does best, reduce or eliminate the repetitiveness.
- We will endeavor to make integrations as pain free as possible for our clients.
If you're an Engineer looking to make a big difference, check our positions below, or reach out and we'll grab some time to talk.
Open Engineering Positions
Team Overview:
At Fluency, we come together under two shared passions that drive our culture: the scaling of digital ad operations, and fostering a workplace environment rooted in open communication, inclusivity, and a growth-oriented mindset. These passions not only set us apart in the industry, but also fuel our collective drive to reshape the industry and reinvent ourselves along the way. We're not just revolutionizing the digital advertising horizon, we're shaping an organization where every member feels a sense of pride and is inspired to do their best work.
The Fluency platform is built using a native AWS architecture. We use JavaScript, Vue.js, HTML5, Bootstrap, CSS3, Java, Spring Boot, Aurora, S3, Elastic Beanstalk along with whatever else makes sense for the job at hand.
Job Summary:
A Senior Frontend Engineer at Fluency will build key product features continuously improving the experience for our customers. You will do this by working with the Product and UX teams on current projects, interpreting product ideas and mockups to create new web-based user interfaces. You’ll balance a consistent look and feel across the application with these fresh features. You will collaborate often with other Software Engineers to define and refine our REST API and you naturally jump in to solve client issues with one of the existing product modules.
Your Role:
- Project planning and execution based on the product development pipeline
- Collaboration across multiple business units and functional departments to develop and deploy solutions that address key business initiatives
- Gather and refine specifications and requirements based on technical needs
- Write well designed, testable, efficient code by using the best software development practices
- Implement and help evolve website interface by using standard HTML/CSS/JS practices
- Integrate data from various back-end services and databases
- Create and maintain software documentation
- Actively seeks and removes impediments to team success regardless of origination
- Present issues and risks to management in a timely manner with proposed mitigation
- Influencing technology and architectural decisions
- Continuously improves software development productivity, quality, predictability, and team morale
What We Look For:
- 5 plus years experience in web application and enterprise software development
- Deep understanding of web technologies (HTML5, CSS3) and experience with a component based JavaScript framework such as VueJS, React, Angular, etc.
- AWS, Vue.js, Bootstrap and Java Spring Boot knowledge a plus
- Bachelors and/or Masters Degree in a related field, a plus but NOT required, we look for proven talent and skill
- Knowledge of current development strategies and trends across web application platforms
- Eye for design/usability details and skills facilitating visual reviews
- Experience establishing, leading, and inspiring world class development
- Knowledge of data-driven development methodologies
- Loves feedback and understands iterative development cycles
- Experience with the advertising industry, a plus
Fluency is headquartered in Vermont. This position is remote US based. If local, you have the option to go into the office.
Fluency provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Team Overview:
Our team is detail-oriented and extraordinarily passionate. We thrive on designing simple and scalable solutions to complex technical problems and delivering a leading enterprise software platform for our customers. We are looking for exceptionally ambitious and communicative hands-on individuals who are comfortable working with a dynamic team, experience working in a fast-paced environment, and who have the passion and skills to take our company to the next level.
Our Engineering division collaborates, and feeds on each other’s ideas in order to build leading edge products for our customers.The Fluency platform is built using a native AWS architecture. We use JavaScript, Vue.js, HTML5, Bootstrap, CSS, Java, Spring Boot, Aurora, S3, Elastic Beanstalk along with whatever else makes sense for the job at hand.
Job Summary:
The Triage Engineer handles incoming issues by performing a forensic analysis on code to determine the cause, then coding basic fixes. You'll collaborate with Client Services as well as the Engineering team as a whole and distribute tasks to the optimal engineer for resolution. You will also work on the release side to help code automated tests that prevent bugs from being released live. You will write functional code tests that will proactively find code problems helping to mitigate risk.
Your Role:
- Triage incoming bugs that couldn’t be solved by support
- Plan and execute fixes against problems received
- Perform stress and load testing of applications
- Use modern infrastructure tools and platforms to automate our systems
- Solve challenging problems working with large dataset transformations
- Work with Client Services to troubleshoot in-bound issues from clients and internal teams
What We Look For:
- Great person
- Be alive and have passion to join our team
Required Experience:
- Knowledge of data-driven development methodologies
- Passion and expertise working with engineering, product, and marketing teams
- Knowledge of current development strategies and trends across web and mobile platforms
- Familiarity and experience with Java in a professional capacity ( 1 or more years )
- Experience building web applications and/or APIs
- Loves feedback and understands iterative development cycles
- Experience with the digital advertising industry, a plus
Fluency is headquartered in Vermont. This position is remote US based. If local, you have the option to go into the office.
Fluency provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Making an Impact—No Matter Where you are.
A core part of working with us is the opportunity to make a profound impact on virtually every aspect of our business. In addition to our company doubling in size over the past 18 months, our people—spread across 11 states and counting—have only grown stronger individually, departmentally, and culturally.
People-Driven Benefits
We have competitive compensation packages, a 401k match, and cover employee health, vision, and dental insurance (along with contributions for family members).
A Stake in Our Success
In addition to bonus plans, we also offer stock options to all employees; as Fluency grows, moves from strength to strength, and meets and exceeds goals, it’s critical that our team shares in the success they’ve enabled.