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The challenge
At Audiense we process more than one thousand million social profiles. We enrich them by applying several classification and segmentation algorithms to help customers such as Twitter, Telefónica, DHL, and Puma to define their marketing campaigns, identify influencers and discover new market niches.
Our challenge is to optimise the intake, enriching and storage of that growing data asset and to bring the insights computing to be as close as possible to real-time.
For that, we have a pipeline that ingests data from an enriching system mainly written in Node.js. This system consumes from many third party APIs and applies algorithms to infer new characteristics. This pipeline is able to keep updating a data lake of more than 100TB that is used to generate reports for our customers using Spark and Scala.
Most of our code base is a monolith written in Node.js. We are decoupling it and this is one of the biggest challenges that we are facing currently. Some parts of the platform dedicated to data processing are being rewritten in Scala and the business logic is being migrated to Typescript.
We are following Domain Driven Design, SOLID and Hexagonal Architecture principles, so we are looking for people who know and have applied them.
One of our main challenges at front-end and UX levels is to represent, in more actionable and comprensible ways, a large amount of complex information about the target audiences. For that, we count on a React.js, Typescript, Redux, Webpack and Styles Components stack.
Besides the visual challenges, we have other interesting ones: improve our end2end tests base, decouple our front-end code from the monolith, develop a robust notifications system (CQRS) that enables the decoupling of the logic from the initial app boot and API calls, add a metrics system to improve performance applying better-caching strategies, migrate legacy code to Typescript applying SOLID and Hexagonal Architecture.
But our users are not only our direct customers. We have a strong partnership program that we empower via a private API. This API is still in beta but already has more than 200 customers and a lot of potential for development.
All our stack is hosted in AWS, we use mainly Docker (ECS), EC2 and Lambda to execute our source code and a wide range of services like SQS and SNS for communication via events.
How do we work?
We have remote-first style work culture, and we have been working 100% remotely for more than 8 years. Although we have offices in Córdoba, our teams (management, sales, customer service, product, marketing and engineering) are distributed across different cities: London, Italy, Málaga, Barcelona, Madrid, Córdoba, Vigo, Seville, Granada, Cuenca...
Our mindset, workflows and communication assume that we are all remote. Almost everything is documented in Github: growth plans, learning path, architecture, protocols, onboarding, playbooks, design system, UX guidelines, etc. We invest everything in our power to automate our daily routines so that we can be as autonomous as possible to allow us to work remotely efficiently.
You will join a cohesive team (more than 4 years on average together) in a very collaborative environment in which you will feel cared for from the start of your onboarding.
Each team applies different agile methodologies but all follow some basic principles. We prioritize the features that bring more value to our customers and, instead of setting deadlines, we deliver small increments so that we always have a functional and deliverable version of the feature. We try to keep the number of tasks in parallel to the minimum possible. We have a few meetings scheduled but we will not miss the daily meetings, biweekly sprint planning and reviews. We have regular 1:1s with the manager and the CTO, and we do not hesitate to jump on to a hangout if a Slack or mail thread is getting longer.
We believe in extreme programming as a development technique so most of the time we do pair programming (yes, remotely) and TDD is our main tool for writing robust and testable code. Pair programming always helps us trust our code allowing for constant iterations. Once per sprint we spend time on joint code review to detect possible glitches to prioritize. We do continuous integration and we are in the process of extinguishing the branches to do trunk base development, there is a challenge here too.
The code we write today tries to follow the principles of SOLID. It’s all about clean code, the application of hexagonal architecture and domain driven design when complexity requires it. Proof of our approach can be seen in our collaborations as teachers for several DDD courses for Typescript. For full transparency, (an Audiense value) during the last 6 years we have written our fair share of ‘bad’ code and created a number of antipatterns but consider it an opportunity to see real examples of what not to do and refactoring techniques not to practice.
We have a culture of continuous learning and we encourage this to happen during working hours. As a team we have made a pact of following a learning path, so by joining Audiense, you are committing to it too. If you have followed a similar path, we are eager to get to know you and learn from your experiences, if you haven’t, we are looking forward to supporting you with resources, time and mentoring so that we are aligned.
You can learn more about our culture on our engineering blog and our Instagram account.
What are we looking for?
We are looking for individuals with strong product mindsets and who value good technical practices.
We use technology to create a seamless product experience so you will be collaborating with design, product management and other engineers to develop that experience. As a company we are moving away from the culture of silos and towards a t-shaped mentality so we expect you to be versatile enough to participate in both frontend and backend tasks.
As a part of our day to day and despite being remote we carry out pair programming, and are looking for individuals who would feel comfortable with this practice and other extreme programming practices: TDD, DDD and clean code. Any previous experience in those areas are always valued.
We have a varied stack: Node.js, React, MongoDB, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, AWS… however, mastering all of them is not a requirement. We are more interested in the principles behind them. More importantly having the experience to apply domain driven design, hexagonal architecture and understanding the challenge of decoupling a monolith is essential. That said, for imminent projects, some experience with Node.js, Typescript, React, MongoDB, MySQL will help you kick off production sooner.
We invest our time and support in helping each other continuously learn, so it is very important that you are keen to learn and continue to practice the skills necessary to master our profession. Practise, practise, practise!
Working remotely has many advantages but also requires extra effort in communication and taking responsibility, which is why self-management, fluid communication, respect, and inclusiveness are all skills we deem to be essential.
What we offer?
- 40K€-60K€ salary.
- Monthly subvention for co-workings.
- Learning days. You can learn during working hours.
- Training budget that includes unlimited access to SafariBooks and Coursera catalogues.
- 100% remote and flexible schedule.
- Local and National Bank holidays.
- Free day on your birthday.
- Wellness day. One free day per month.
- One month paid sabbatical leave for all employees who make it to 5 years with Audiense.
- Rewards for hitting quarterly targets.
- Quarterly engineering meetups, 3 days of retrospective sessions, hacking, team building and leisure in Córdoba.
- Yearly global all hands, 3-4 days of team building and leisure sessions for all the company.
- English lessons.
- Furniture/Accessories Allowance via Hofy.
- 2 Duvet Days per year.
- Allowance towards therapy sessions.
- Laptop with the possibility of choosing between Mac or PC.
- Free 1Password Families Plan account.
Recruitment Process
- Send an email to jobdev@audiense.com introducing yourself and telling us why you fit the profile we are looking for. Your CV will also be useful but it is not the most important.
- If you pass the initial application filtering or we contact you directly, your first interview will be with a team leader.
- You’ll have a second interview with some members of our team. This is a good opportunity to ask questions directly to your future teammates.
- We will then look for a way to validate your skills and experiences. Our preference is to run a session with you in which we could either solve a problem together or to read some kind of code. We believe this is the best way to validate if we both like each other and especially for you to experience how we work, team dynamics, and of course we would pay you for your time. However, if this approach doesn’t work for you, we are open to considering alternatives.
- And at the end of the pipeline, you will have a quick talk with Alfredo Artiles, our CTO, in which you can ask any final questions you have.
- If we finally convince you to join our team, this will be the ideal onboarding:
- Over the first few days, you will be assigned a mentor who will help you set up your computer as needed and mentor you for the following months. He will explain all the workflows we have become familiar with and hope you will too.
- From day 1 you will become a part of the usual development flow: solving team issues and deploying code to production several times a day.
- As our development flow is adapted to pair programming your contribution will be very progressive, and you will always have someone to revert to with any questions you may have.
About Audiense
Audiense enables innovative organizations to understand and apply the power of audience segmentation and insights by reinventing the use of compliant social data to make it more strategic and connect it with the business/marketing strategy to be relevant and deliver results.
Audiense’ advanced data science platform has attracted many premium clients such as Twitter, Telefónica, Puma and DHL. We have also developed important partnerships with Twitter and IBM. We are one of only two Twitter Official Partners certified for both data analysis and advertising, which ensures our clients can gather deep insights and then get the most from their investment in Twitter with advanced micro-targeting. We are also partnered with IBM Watson, which helps enrich our database with cognitive analysis, including personality, image and sentiment intelligence. This gives our clients an edge over their competitors as they can gather rich, detailed insights on audiences that matter to their business in real-time.
Founded in 2011 by Javier Burón and Alfredo Artiles, Audiense has offices in London, UK and Córdoba, Spain, and currently has 25 employees of which more than half are within engineering and product.
