It’s an exciting time to join Tactile. We're one of the largest Danish gaming companies and we have been scaling fast in the last few years. Currently, we are looking for an experienced backend programmer with a strong knowledge of web service technologies and project management experience to join our Marketing Team.
As the Backend Marketing Lead, you will take on the role of the ‘hands-on mentor’, combining your passion for technology with project management skills. One of your first tasks will be helping us build the architecture around our new Superbidding feature. You will also shape and direct a structured way of working with multiple business processes and to drive your team to make a greater impact.
As a part of our Marketing Platform Team, you will work on our business critical live operations dashboard used by all of our marketing and games teams. Our live operations platform consists of a single-page front-end, which is backed by a web service component. Additionally, you will be supporting the marketing creative team and UA managers by extending the platform scope by developing new features and API integrations to further support operations, social interactions and providing players with personalized experiences within our games.
Our platform is written in NodeJS with MongoDB as the storage component. We use Angular to build our client side frontend, but are in the process of migrating to React.
Your general responsibilities will be:
- Building and automating marketing related systems
- Implementing API integrations for various marketing services
- Improving, extending and monitoring back and front-end marketing tools
- Gaining a thorough understanding/overview of the different shared marketing and backend technologies and how they interact.
- Collaborating with CTO and backend leads group on strategy/direction for shared technologies
- Planning work for the Backend Marketing Team in collaboration with CMO
- Running daily stand-ups for the Backend Marketing Team, mentoring team members and sharing best practices
- Making sure any operational problems/incidents are taken care of by relevant team member
- Assisting the CMO in half-yearly development talks with Backend Marketing Team members
About you:
- Multiple years of deep industry experience building, owning and managing backend related systems and services
- Deep understanding of business processes and supporting solutions is crucial
- Strong background in software development using JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js
- Experience with web services (RESTful) and web technologies in general
- Experience with MongoDB / document-oriented databases and SQL
- Experience with Linux and Docker
- You have experience being a technical leader or mentor
- You can quickly scope the size and feasibility of projects of all sizes
Major pluses:
- Experience with SDK networks, Ad Exchanges or DSPs
- Marketing related experience
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with Heroku
- Experience with Google Cloud Services and/or AWS
- Experience with BigQuery or another column-based database
- Experience with Python
- Familiarity with the concept of TDD
- Good understanding of front-end technologies (Maybe you have built frontend web applications with React or Angular before?)
The position is full-time, available now and based on-site in our Copenhagen office. Come grow with us!
