About Us

SmartMedia Technologies is a company founded to bring brand engagement solutions to scale conscious companies.  We are experts in launching and scaling everything from Linear, Connected TV to Web3.  The future is being built on our Enterprise Web3 engagement platform, making Web3 easy, safe and open for current and future consumers.  

The SmartMedia Stack, including its self-serve, no-code, drag and drop studio, enables creators to design and distribute tokens, 2-click web3 wallets, and spatial web experiences by leveraging the scale and reach of its Web3-enabled programmatic media platform. SmartMedia Technologies’ end-to-end Web2-to-Web3 platform drives gamified engagement, acquisition and loyalty across a digital and mobile-first audience - ultimately delivering better business outcomes. 

We work smarter and play harder; we live our company values by being strategic partners who bring innovation and passion to the service and execution that we do on the behalf of our clients.

• Passion

We have a persistent and relentless pursuit to achieve our best. This shows up in the love for the smart work that we do. We are passionate about that work delivering results for our partners, and about building lifelong relationships. 

• Innovation 

We are always looking for a smarter way to do great things. We look for inventive and creative ideas, strategies, tactics and technologies that deliver better business outcomes.

• Execution

We do great things, and we do things great! We value the ability to get things done and to follow through when we said we would. It also means understanding where we should be executing and how best to prioritize our time and tasks to ensure we have the greatest amount of impact.

• Service

We put others above ourselves by making intentional decisions and actions to benefit others. This means serving a variety of stakeholders such as our clients, team members, family, community and mother earth.

About the role

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to act as a high-level individual contributor. In this role, you will architect and build scalable full-stack solutions. You will drive the technical build-out of our data and analytics platforms, providing architectural direction across teams and systems, while extending your reach to deliver targeted solutions across our APIs, front-end, and back-end systems.

If you're someone who loves solving ambiguous problems, building scalable systems, and partnering across teams to drive business impact, this role is for you.

What you'll do

• Drive the build out of our data and analytics platforms to power analytics and enhanced decision making for SmartMedia Technologies personnel and clients.
• Own and lead the development of the data pipeline, including vendor and internally developed technology, with an integrated strategy to harmonize, standardize, and drive a thoughtful roadmap across teams and systems to maximize business value and minimize long term operational cost and risk to the business.
• Establish and enforce robust engineering standards (including code review, architectural guidance and active technical mentorship across engineering teams), data governance, and operational practices to ensure continuous improvement in product delivery, data quality, and compliance.
• Provide architectural guidance and informed recommendations, balancing delivery speed, scalability, cost, security, and long-term maintainability.
• Actively partner with internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment and delivery toward shared success for critical business processes and objectives.
• Ensure Data & Analytics platform technology and processes across the ecosystem adhere to the SmartMedia Technologies values and all security, data management, and compliance requirements.
• Other tasks, duties or special projects as assigned. 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 12+ years of data engineering experience, , including hands-on development and contribution to code for complex data pipelines, advanced business analytics, and complex problem solving.
• 5+ years of experience providing technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and analysts.
• Expert-level proficiency in Python and SQL for data manipulation, ETL/ELT development, and optimization.
• Proficiency in full-stack development technologies (e.g., Node.js, React, or similar) to support the architectural extension of APIs and front-end systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to craft compelling stories for diverse audiences to communicate strategy, product roadmap, and operational delivery.
• Ability to influence and deliver results in a global, matrixed environment comprised of multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Proficient in modern software architectural principles and patterns.
• Experience with public cloud infrastructure technologies (EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, AWS Athena, DynamoDB, or Google/Azure equivalents).

Education, Experience and Training

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Business, Mathematics, Analytics, Economics, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 12+ years of data engineering experience, including hands-on development and direct code contributions to complex data pipelines, advanced business analytics, and large-scale problem solving.
  5+ years of experience providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers and analysts, and setting engineering best practices.