Upwave is looking to solve the problem of measuring and optimizing upper funnel campaigns for the world's leading advertisers, agencies, and media partners.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as an engineer
- Experience with RDBMS-backed backends using Spring Boot, Django, Rails, or Express
- Experience with single-page frontends built in React, Vue, or Angular
- Fluency in the modern landscape of UI frameworks, API and microservice architectures, databases, and cloud platforms
- Experience with modern AI-powered development tools to move faster and code smarter
- Knowledge of technologies like Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub CoPilot
- Experience with cloud-native applications on AWS, especially using Kubernetes and Terraform for automation and scalability
Responsibilities
- Build AI-powered customer experiences — integrate LLMs and advanced causal inference techniques into production workflows that automatically generate data visualizations, synthesize campaign performance into natural language insights, and help enterprise customers understand and optimize their advertising through our AI analyst 'Bayes.'
- Design and build scalable backend systems —develop microservices and RESTful APIs that power the analytics platform behind the world's top brand campaigns.
- Contribute across the stack — work from backend APIs to Python analytics services to React frontends, delivering complete features that combine sophisticated data analysis with intuitive user experiences.
- Engineer data pipelines at scale — design and operate systems that process massive volumes of ad and survey data with MySQL, DynamoDB, and AWS (S3, Lambda, EMR, Kinesis Firehose).
- Improve reliability and performance — deploy services on Kubernetes and AWS, automate deployments via CI/CD, monitor with DataDog and Sentry, and continuously raise the bar for operational excellence
- Collaborate deeply — work closely with Product and Data Science to productionize statistical models, integrate advanced analytics into customer-facing tools, and bring cutting-edge AI capabilities to enterprise customers.
- Deliver insights that move millions — enable brand lift analytics and real-time campaign insights by building reliable, high-throughput systems.
Other
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years of experience in software development
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work in a remote-first team
- Experience working in an engineering-first company
