Kevel is a growing cloud-based technology company leading a bold mission to help make the Internet a better place through ethical advertising practices and building customizable, ad serving solutions quickly and easily. At Kevel, we put people first. Our team members are passionate and self-motivated individuals that help each other do remarkable things every day. 

JOB OVERVIEW: We are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our reporting team. We expect the new member to help the team implement the vision for the new architecture by cooperating in the respective R&D process. At the same time, this person will also be active in helping develop new features for the reporting product, as we continue to expand the reporting capabilities provided to our customers. 

Through analytics capabilities, Kevel Reporting gives customers visibility over how their ad business behaves. The Reporting team is responsible for transforming raw log data from the AdServer to enable reports to run on time. That involves aggregating large volumes of data through data transformation pipelines and enabling the querying capabilities to address business needs. The team is redesigning the system's architecture and expects to reduce the time it takes to generate reports by over 100x during 2025.

LOCATION: Remote - Portugal. The position is 100% fully remote although we do have an office located in Porto with a team who enjoys meeting there regularly. Applicants located, and legally eligible to work anywhere within Portugal, ideally Porto, are encourage to apply. 

PAY TRANSPARENCY: Kevel uses external, third-party market data to determine compensation for all open positions. Our compensation philosophy is based on the candidate’s specific working location and experience level. This means that we will take a no negotiation approach in our recruitment and offer processes. We believe this is an important step in living our value of embracing diversity while underlining our commitment to fair, equitable and inclusive pay practices.

The pay range for this position for applicants located in Portugal is €49,844 - €66,791.

An exact offer for this position will be determined based on the candidate's working location and experience level, in relation to our existing team.

WHAT YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH:

• Build core infrastructure used by the data pipelines and reporting services
• Contribute to data engineering efforts to evolve our pipelines and data lakes from batch processing to streaming architecture, to provide near real-time reporting capabilities
• Build full-stack (front-end and back-end) applications that power Kevel’s reporting functions, including writing tests and setting up CI/CD pipelines
• Drive discovery and extract insights from internal data sources.  Help drive the direction of system innovation.
• Contribute to the creation of reporting back end and front end applications used by internal, as well as external stakeholders. 
• Collaborate with the core engineering team to transition discoveries and capabilities into production systems.  These systems need to provide the scalability, reliability, security, and performance that our global customers require.
• Work closely with the product management team to help design and build new features powered by data-driven insights.
• Work closely with our customer success teams to deliver value and drive growth.

SKILLS YOU'LL BRING WITH YOU:

• Experience building data transformation pipelines and data analytics platforms. 
• Data transformation pipelines and analytics, particularly with AWS Redshift, Spark, or PostgreSQL. 
• Amazon Web Services experience, including Redshift, Kinesis, EMR, lambdas, S3, AWS CI/CD services (CodeBuild, CodePipeline, etc.), EC2, RDS.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform).
• Programming experience using Clojure, TypeScript, Python, Scala.

WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING WITH US:

• Fully Remote Team: We are a 100% remote work environment with employees located around the world. You are welcome to work from home, one of our offices, a WeWork office, or an equivalent co-working space.
• Flexible Working Hours: We understand our employees have their own lives, responsibilities and working preferences. We trust our employees to communicate with their managers, and work when they work best.
• Paid Health Benefits: 100% employer paid health benefits for you and your entire family. 
• Savings opportunity for the Future: Kevel offers retirement savings plans with employer contributions so employees can save toward future financial objectives. 
• Rest and Relaxation: Unlimited personal time off - and we mean it! We trust our employees to take the time they need, whenever they need it. We also offer Paid Holidays + a Kevel Holiday Break (from 12/24 - 1/1 every year!)
• Monthly wellness days: Kevel offers one wellness day per month that the whole company takes off together. This helps us rest and recharge as a team, and prioritize the mental health and well-being of our employees.
• Kevelfest: Our annual corporate retreat! The entire Kevel team gets together once a year for a four - day in - person event filled with collaboration, team building, celebration and fun! 
• Home Office Stipend: You’ll receive a new mac machine + a 500 euro home office allowance to purchase what you need to set up your work space properly!
• Parental Leave Support: We support all parents with salary continuation and benefits when our employees are growing their families.
• Free press benefits: Kevel believes all employees should have access to legitimate news sources. You’ll receive a 300 euro annual allowance to subscribe to the news source of your choice.
• You’ll work with an award winning team! We’ve won numerous Best Places to Work Awards for several years and counting! We’ve also won many awards for our Innovation, Business Intelligence, and our best-in-class products (Software of the Year, Cloud Company of the Year, Best Ad Tech and API Innovator). 
• Full transparency. We embrace transparency and encourage you to read more about what we value through our Company Constitution and Employee Bill of Rights, our About Kevel page, and Careers Page.

Hiring Guidelines by Country: Kevel hires new team members in countries around the world. Some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Recruitment Team will share the specific benefits that are available in your location, and can help answer any questions about location specific eligibility requirements and benefits after the recruitment process begins. 

ABOUT KEVEL 

Kevel (previously Adzerk) offers the infrastructure APIs needed to quickly build custom ad platforms for sponsored listings, internal promotions, native ads, and more. We are committed to helping publishers drive new revenue and take back the Internet from ad tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook. 

Kevel was founded in 2010 in Durham, North Carolina. We embrace remote working culture with our entire team being spread across the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal and Singapore! Kevel is proud to be an inclusive workplace with one goal in common — we want to make the internet a better place. 

ALL APPLICANTS ARE WELCOME, EXACTLY AS YOU ARE

We’re building a global community - one that’s safe for people of all backgrounds and walks of life. Our policies and way of working are guided by our core values of inclusivity, trust, empathy, and respect. We know we have more work to do, but firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic selves. 

Kevel is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts and commitment to creating a diverse, inclusive, and transparent workplace where everyone feels respected, heard, safe and accepted. At Kevel, we embrace our differences and consider diversity a superpower that drives the success of our organization. 

Individuals seeking employment at Kevel are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.