Lead Engineer, Contextual Segmentation

Captify Technologies
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1 month ago
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ABOUT CAPTIFY

Captify is the leading Search Intelligence Platform for the open web and the largest independent holder of first-party search data outside of the walled gardens, connecting the real-time searches from over 2 billion devices globally. Its Search Intelligence technology powers omnichannel programmatic advertising and real-time insights for the world’s biggest brands, such as Disney, Unilever, eBay, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, Nestlé, GSK, Uber, Mars, P&G, Sony and Toyota—without reliance on third-party cookies. Captify brings brands more customers, publishers greater yield and consumers the most relevant digital experiences.

OUR CULTURE AND VALUES:

Here at Captify we are proud of our culture - It’s contagious. Pass it on.

Step inside any of our global offices and one thing that is blissfully obvious is that while we’re putting blood, sweat and tears into disrupting the Search game, we’re having a seriously good time doing it. We’ve travelled the world together, enjoyed Captify Festivals, parties and our famous events across every market. We always take time to stop to celebrate milestones and wins.

We live by our core values:

  • Building this together
  • Give a shit
  • Fail fast to succeed faster
  • Unlimited potential

Find out more about our culture here:https://careers.captify.co.uk/

OVERVIEW

We are looking for a Lead Engineer with experience in machine learning and a passion for leading people to lead our Contextual Segmentation Team. This team is responsible for bringing the power of search to enhance and create innovative solutions to segment internet pages and domains, as well as TV shows and episodes. To achieve this, you will lead a distributed team that has both software and ML engineers working together from various locations.

Working closely with the rest of the technical leadership team, the successful candidate will be comfortable collaborating with others to design the most effective systems.

Captify’s world-class engineers, semantic specialists and product teams are building the future of Search and as part of our Engineering Team, you will play a key part in developing our offering. We work in small cross-functional teams of developers who focus on a particular product area, and we encourage people to rotate across teams. Our product teams are underpinned and enabled by our platform team.

Our company values are important to us and influence how we work together. With exciting projects, technologies and services in the pipeline now is a great time to be part of our journey.
ABOUT YOU

You are a seasoned Lead Engineer with a strong background in machine learning and a passion for leadership. You have a proven track record of guiding distributed teams, with experience collaborating between software and ML engineers and delivering innovative segmentation solutions. With excellent problem-solving skills and a strategic mindset, you thrive in cross-functional environments, working closely with technical leadership to design and implement effective systems. Not only are you technically proficient but also an inspiring mentor, committed to driving excellence and innovation.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

What you’ll be doing:

  • You will help architect and build an innovative search-powered contextual segmentation Solution
  • You will be responsible for designing and building the performance optimisation pipeline for the segmentation solution
  • You will be responsible for maintaining and developing the Contextual TV solutions in the Company
  • You will experiment with new tools and technologies to produce cutting-edge solutions to business and engineering problems
  • You will lead a cross-functional, results-oriented team
  • You will enable a culture of improvement and innovation in practices, process and technology
  • Working with data science and the performance team to build hypotheses, design tests, monitoring and KPIs

REQUIREMENTS:

What you need to be successful:

  • Have the potential to build and lead a distributed team
  • Experience with Machine Learning / Data Science
  • Know our tech stack: Python, Scala, Spark, Flink, Kafka, Kubernetes, Databricks and AWS services
  • Previous experience with git, CI and CD tools
  • Passionate about internal quality, good code and effective technical practice
  • Passion for continuously improving the team’s performance


YOU WILL ENJOY

  • 25 days holiday + bank holidays + your birthday + volunteer day
  • Regular shutdown days, including the festive period
  • Hybrid working - 3 days in the office
  • Free hot lunch on Tuesday and Thursday
  • UK Private Healthcare Plan with AXA
  • Access to SPILL - instant therapy support
  • Access to Mental Health First Aiders
  • Sport and wellbeing activities; yoga and softball
  • Financial wellbeing support
  • Work from any Captify office in the world
  • Capti-Family Benefits: including Child Nursery Savings
  • UK Pension plan
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Eyecare vouchers
  • Free breakfast
  • Beer, bubbles and non-alcoholic alternatives every Thursday at the Captify Bar
  • Dog friendly office
  • Access to Capti-Academy - Captify's bespoke Learning platform

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

You are welcome at Captify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what your search history says about you. At Captify, equality is at the core of our culture and we are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. We don’t want you to fit in with our culture, we want you to add to our culture.

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