Software Engineer

Overview

Under the direction of the VP of Engineering, the Software Engineer will engage in designing and creating Epsilon’s software solutions. As a vital squad member, you will participate from initial concept through to fully functional products, collaborating closely with product, design, and testing teams to adhere to technical standards, implement best practices, and produce customer-oriented, stable, and scalable systems. This role encourages versatility across frontend, backend, and infrastructure layers, with opportunities to develop specialization based on interests and business needs. The role also involves leveraging DevOps expertise. Your primary focus will be to contribute to multiple development projects that build both new and existing features.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate on technical solution design within your squad, partnering with senior engineers to decompose challenges and select pragmatic solutions
• Develop high-quality software products focused on customer needs, ensuring smooth rollout and ongoing production support
• Create, review, and maintain codebases, design specifications, and other technical documentation
• Implement sound engineering principles, standards, and design patterns consistently in your work area
• Enhance system reliability, scalability, and operations in coordination with your squad
• Utilize DevOps knowledge to maintain and improve infrastructure, build processes, and deployment pipelines
• Engage actively in code reviews, daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, and retrospectives
• Investigate and resolve issues spanning code and tooling efficiently to closure

Qualifications and Skills

• Between 2 and 5 years’ experience as a software engineer, preferably with backend development expertise in statically typed compiled languages (such as Java or Go), with openness to learn these if experienced in others
• Strong foundation in programming, database management, and system architecture concepts
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and microservice system architecture
• Experience with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and full software development life cycle
• Competence in writing unit and integration tests
• Additional DevOps skills including Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and container technologies (e.g., Docker)
• Effective communication abilities tailored to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Capability to work productively both independently and as part of a team
• Strong analytical problem-solving and technical writing skills

Desirable Expertise

• Knowledge of container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and Helm
• Experience using build tools such as Bazel
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions
• Background working with Google Cloud Platform or other cloud providers
• Experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases
• Industry experience in Ad Tech, Retail Media, e-commerce, or recommendation systems
• Exposure to real-time bidding, auction systems, or processing high-throughput data pipelines
• Some frontend development experience with modern frameworks such as React
• Interest in platform engineering and improving developer experience
• Contributions to open source projects or technical writing publications

About Epsilon

Epsilon is a global data and technology organization driving marketing and advertising ecosystems worldwide. Powering marketing for top brands, it leverages extensive data, advanced AI processing over 400+ billion consumer behaviors daily, and proprietary technologies including real-time modeling and consumer privacy innovations. Epsilon is recognized by leading industry bodies and employs over 9,000 people globally.

Culture and Values

• People Centricity: Fostering a caring and supportive workplace prioritizing well-being
• Collaboration: Encouraging teamwork and collective achievement
• Growth: Offering expansive opportunities for professional development and career growth
• Innovation: Embracing forward-thinking solutions and continuous progress
• Flexibility: Supporting work-life balance and creative problem solving through adaptable approaches

• Integrity in all actions
• Working together to achieve success
• Purposeful innovation
• Respecting diverse viewpoints
• Empowering accountability

Employee Benefits

• An extra 5 days of annual leave awarded each year after two years of service
• Generous family support including up to 18 weeks of paid primary carer parental leave plus secondary carer benefits and additional 5 paid carer days annually
• Work Your World program allowing remote work from anywhere globally up to 6 weeks annually
• Recognition and rewards program with a points-based store
• Additional benefits including hybrid work options, gym memberships, learning & development programs, and comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives
• Benefits are conditional based on eligibility and terms

Diversity & Inclusion

Epsilon is committed to fostering an inclusive environment that welcomes people regardless of race, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, culture, ability, or other attributes. Diverse perspectives are valued as essential to delivering outstanding client solutions and enriching the company culture. Reasonable accommodations are provided during recruitment to support applicants with disabilities.