Software Engineering Lead
Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- Extensive Backend Engineering Experience – This role is nearly entirely backend focused. You should be comfortable exercising best practices in Python/FastAPI, working with high-throughput real-time systems, and deploying and operating services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Communication Skills – You will work extensively with external affiliate partners, making clear and professional written and verbal communication essential. You'll need good judgment for navigating technical conversations with partners of varying sophistication and organizational complexity
- Process Orientation & Multitasking – You will be responsible for many simultaneous workstreams: active integrations, in-flight debugging, API evolution projects, and ongoing partner relationships. You'll need to design and maintain right-sized processes to keep everything on track without dropping balls
- Detail Orientation – Real-time bidding is an unforgiving environment where a single malformed field or misconfigured parameter can silently degrade performance or revenue. An extraordinary eye for detail is essential
- QA Mindset – You will be expected to build and maintain robust testing and validation practices to ensure integrations behave correctly end-to-end, especially as we scale to more affiliates and more inventory types
- Domain Knowledge (a Plus) – Familiarity with the insurance industry and/or real-time bidding ecosystems (leads, clicks, calls) will meaningfully accelerate your ability to make good decisions and earn credibility with partners
What the job involves
- Reporting to Thomas Boquet, Head of Real-Time Bidding, the Software Engineering Lead, Affiliate Engineering will own all of our technical relationships and integrations with affiliate partners - the platforms that send us millions of leads, clicks, and calls daily - and serve as the primary technical point of contact for ensuring those partnerships are deeply integrated, high-performing, and continuously improving
- Your mission will be to ensure that our real-time bidding infrastructure:
- Seamlessly connects with dozens of affiliate platforms, giving us access to the broadest and highest-quality inventory possible
- Accurately and reliably receives, validates, and routes inbound data from affiliate requests through to our machine learning models
- Maintains a high degree of integration reliability, visibility, and performance across all affiliate channels
- Make every affiliate successful at integrating with our API
- By serving as a responsive, knowledgeable technical partner throughout the onboarding and integration process
- By systematically identifying and resolving bugs and gaps in existing integrations
- Proactively deepen our integrations with every affiliate
- By evolving our API to expose richer capabilities and unlock more inventory
- By collaborating directly with affiliate partners to identify and act on opportunities to expand the volume and quality of traffic we receive
- Build visibility and confidence in our data pipeline
- By documenting, understanding, and monitoring the full data flow from inbound API requests through to our machine learning models
- By proactively tracking integration performance and surfacing issues before they become business problems
Benefits
- Bonuses and equity opportunities
- Unlimited vacation time
- 100% employer-paid insurance for employee, 60% for dependents
- 401K plan
- Annual in-person retreats
About Trellis
Trellis Company is a mission-driven, nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation that connects people to education-to-employment pathways that transform their lives. Our purpose is to develop and advance initiatives that grow individual economic mobility and expand community prosperity.
At Trellis, we actively promote diversity, equality, and belonging both at Trellis and throughout our family of companies. That extends to the relationships and interactions we have with our partners, our customers, and our community.
More About Trellis For more than 42 years, we have delivered positive outcomes for college students and higher ed institutions. We are now extending our commitment to the social good to reach a greater number of people and the communities where they live. Through our nationally recognized research services, specialized employee financial wellness programs, and workforce development collaboratives, we aim to increase individual economic mobility and expand community prosperity.
We build each other up to bring out the best in all of us.
Our Core Values • We do well by doing good • Our culture celebrates diversity, equity, and inclusion • We encourage exploration, experimentation, and innovation • Our work gives us fulfillment and purpose • We foster a sense of trust, servant leadership, and integrity • We succeed because we work together
Software Engineering Lead
Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- Extensive Backend Engineering Experience – This role is nearly entirely backend focused. You should be comfortable exercising best practices in Python/FastAPI, working with high-throughput real-time systems, and deploying and operating services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Communication Skills – You will work extensively with external affiliate partners, making clear and professional written and verbal communication essential. You'll need good judgment for navigating technical conversations with partners of varying sophistication and organizational complexity
- Process Orientation & Multitasking – You will be responsible for many simultaneous workstreams: active integrations, in-flight debugging, API evolution projects, and ongoing partner relationships. You'll need to design and maintain right-sized processes to keep everything on track without dropping balls
- Detail Orientation – Real-time bidding is an unforgiving environment where a single malformed field or misconfigured parameter can silently degrade performance or revenue. An extraordinary eye for detail is essential
- QA Mindset – You will be expected to build and maintain robust testing and validation practices to ensure integrations behave correctly end-to-end, especially as we scale to more affiliates and more inventory types
- Domain Knowledge (a Plus) – Familiarity with the insurance industry and/or real-time bidding ecosystems (leads, clicks, calls) will meaningfully accelerate your ability to make good decisions and earn credibility with partners
What the job involves
- Reporting to Thomas Boquet, Head of Real-Time Bidding, the Software Engineering Lead, Affiliate Engineering will own all of our technical relationships and integrations with affiliate partners - the platforms that send us millions of leads, clicks, and calls daily - and serve as the primary technical point of contact for ensuring those partnerships are deeply integrated, high-performing, and continuously improving
- Your mission will be to ensure that our real-time bidding infrastructure:
- Seamlessly connects with dozens of affiliate platforms, giving us access to the broadest and highest-quality inventory possible
- Accurately and reliably receives, validates, and routes inbound data from affiliate requests through to our machine learning models
- Maintains a high degree of integration reliability, visibility, and performance across all affiliate channels
- Make every affiliate successful at integrating with our API
- By serving as a responsive, knowledgeable technical partner throughout the onboarding and integration process
- By systematically identifying and resolving bugs and gaps in existing integrations
- Proactively deepen our integrations with every affiliate
- By evolving our API to expose richer capabilities and unlock more inventory
- By collaborating directly with affiliate partners to identify and act on opportunities to expand the volume and quality of traffic we receive
- Build visibility and confidence in our data pipeline
- By documenting, understanding, and monitoring the full data flow from inbound API requests through to our machine learning models
- By proactively tracking integration performance and surfacing issues before they become business problems
Benefits
- Bonuses and equity opportunities
- Unlimited vacation time
- 100% employer-paid insurance for employee, 60% for dependents
- 401K plan
- Annual in-person retreats
About Trellis
Trellis Company is a mission-driven, nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation that connects people to education-to-employment pathways that transform their lives. Our purpose is to develop and advance initiatives that grow individual economic mobility and expand community prosperity.
At Trellis, we actively promote diversity, equality, and belonging both at Trellis and throughout our family of companies. That extends to the relationships and interactions we have with our partners, our customers, and our community.
More About Trellis For more than 42 years, we have delivered positive outcomes for college students and higher ed institutions. We are now extending our commitment to the social good to reach a greater number of people and the communities where they live. Through our nationally recognized research services, specialized employee financial wellness programs, and workforce development collaboratives, we aim to increase individual economic mobility and expand community prosperity.
We build each other up to bring out the best in all of us.
Our Core Values • We do well by doing good • Our culture celebrates diversity, equity, and inclusion • We encourage exploration, experimentation, and innovation • Our work gives us fulfillment and purpose • We foster a sense of trust, servant leadership, and integrity • We succeed because we work together