Who we are:

Topsort is a seed-stage company disrupting the advertising world with a privacy-centric product and auction-based technology. We're democratizing the exclusive and powerful monetization technology behind some of the most successful marketplaces in the world. The core offering is a set of auction-powered tools and APIs that help marketplaces and online retailers accelerate their growth while creating better relevance, profit, and user happiness.

We are a remote-first team of doers, fast at execution and fully embracing the growth mentality. Some of us have glowing resumes, big-name backgrounds and track records founding or operating high-growth startups, but everyone is hands-on, down-to-earth, and starts with a beginner mindset that is essential at an early-stage startup. Our culture is one of constantly pushing the limits, embracing radical transparency, and being excited by new challenges.

Topsort is well-funded, is growing fast, and is now looking to substantially grow the team. You will be one of the first 50 employees, so it is important that you are ambitious, have leadership skills, can act hands-on, and are not afraid of new challenges. If you are looking for a laid-back position where you get a long training period, lots of hand-holding, and full predictability over your day-to-day tasks, this might not be a fit. If you are looking for a fast-paced environment where you will learn a ton, will be surrounded by great peers, and will be a fundamental part of a proverbial rocket ship, look no further.

Our stack: Go, PostgreSQL, Typescript, React, Vue, Kubernetes, Terraform

Topsort engineers build back end services, APIs and front end experiences to support our mission: democratizing auction-based infrastructure for all marketplaces. Our first product is sponsored listings as a service. We automate and simplify auctions so that any advertiser, especially small ones, can compete successfully. It’s not easy. We use our game and auction theory expertise; implement real-time, scalable, always-available systems; and build an intuitive, easy-to-use UI for managing campaigns.

We’re looking for people who want to build successful products, are comfortable with data, like learning new technologies, can handle many moving parts, and enjoy wearing different hats - we’re a start-up! We’re developing:

• Scalable, fast services for running auctions
• Financial systems - ledgers, payments, invoicing, billing, etc.
• Simple machinery for small vendors to optimize their advertising spend
• Big data models for predicting customer behavior
• Tools for our product and customer teams that streamline marketplace integration

We’re particularly interested in your experience (or interest) in these areas:

• Production services
• Financial or payments technology - Stripe and other payment processors
• Cloud platforms - AWS, GCP, Azure
• UI Frameworks - React, Next
• Infrastructure automation - Terraform, Kubernetes
• Big Data - Spark, Redshift
• Economics, auction or game theory
• Functional programming
• Security: OWASP, SOX, PCI/DSS GDPR, ISO 2700x

We seek to add to our team an APAC based Software Engineer with good communication skills, who both knows how to share his or her knowledge and is willing to continue learning, and who is passionate about solving problems and logical challenges that can drive our current projects.

Your main tasks will be:

• Collaborate with the development team to build a software architecture that allows for orderly code that is easy to work with.
• Analyze and implement technological solutions in the development of Topsort products.
• Improve customer experience.
• Propose process or technology improvements to implement.

Requirements:

• You have a minimum of 2 years of experience doing software development.
• You do well solving problems and make others understand you clearly.
• You are able to write professional-grade code that is easy to understand and modify, choosing appropriate technologies to achieve your objectives.
• You are able to express yourself with precision, transparency, and honesty (ex: "I ignored you because I thought it was better to do it my way, sorry, I will correct this next time"). This applies both to verbal communication and text communication tools like Slack, Notion, and Medium.
• You are willing to learn and to do things outside of your direct scope - like everyone else on the team.
• Remote working: your working timezone is mostly with APAC companies but it’s important you keep 4 hours of overlap with the US team to stay in sync and work with the rest of the team as needed