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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer within Sovrn Labs - **Company:** Sovrn, Inc. - **Location:** United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Unix, Information Systems, DevOps, MapReduce, Apache Hive, Node.Js, NoSQL, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Web Applications, Web Services, AngularJS, Information Technology, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Cucumber (Software) - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/sr-software-engineer-sovrn-labs-sovrn-com-8254624 ## About the Role * 4+ years professional experience implementing web applications * Strong software design and architectural skills * Strong desire to expand and improve your software engineering skills * Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases * Experience building NodeJS applications, Angular JS, and highly scalable applications * Experience implementing API services infrastructure and associated tooling * Strong Unix skills * Experience working within "DevOps" * BS in Computer Science or Information Systems, or equivalent experience Bonus Points * Familiarity with ad products and internet marketing * Experience with Hive, Cassandra, Kafka, MapReduce * Experience with TDD / BDD, such as cucumber framework * Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) ## Description As a Software Engineer within Sovrn Labs you will be tasked with architecting, coding and researching a solution to a serious publisher problem. We have a pilot program launching in early 2017 and need you to help us move beyond that stage. Day to day you'll be working on building out our highly scalable platform using NodeJS and Express, with an AngularJS UI. You'll embrace our lean approach to develop products and build, test, and iterate in weekly development cycles. What we are looking for We are looking for an engineer with a strong entrepreneurial mindset who is able to understand opportunities in a market and work with product managers, and senior leadership to build products that meet a market need. They should self-motivated, able to work on small team with minimal supervision, and have a history of delivering high-quality code from ideation through QA. Ideal candidates include former founding members of start-ups and or developers that have have lead the development of new products. If you don't already have a strong ad-tech or publishing background you'll need to be comfortable learning a new industry and spending a significant amount of your time becoming an expert on its future. If you have a strong background in ad tech - that's great, but you'll need to start thinking about problems a little differently. 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