Software Engineer

Napkyn is a fully accredited Google Marketing Platform (GMP) sales partner. We help brands build stronger digital connections with consumers through nimble and strategic engagement models, providing advertising and data strategy, training, technology design and hands-on campaign management.
As a Kepler Group company, Napkyn draws from Kepler's strategic, technology-and data-driven marketing expertise to provide world-class Google marketing support.

Napkyn Summary:
Data and technology have revolutionized the way businesses go to market, harvest insights, and drive ongoing innovation. Napkyn’s team of data scientists, marketing experts and systems engineers are at the forefront of that revolution, and we are seeking new colleagues that possess a desire to bring thoughtful, strategic, technology-driven solutions to the world’s leading marketers.

The Napkyn offering is based on 14+ years’ experience as a thought leader in digital analytics and data-driven marketing. And it is anchored by the Google Marketing and Cloud Platforms, based on our belief that Google has built the most effective, interconnected, data-rich toolkit for brands and their agencies. Our engagements include everything from installing and integrating Google Analytics into clients’ business structures – and implementing pervasive data-activation practices across every client function, to assisting brands and agencies take full advantage of the Google Marketing Platform’s powerful media capabilities.

Put simply, our desire is to fundamentally change the way our clients harness data to do business. We’d love to hear whether you’d like to help us do it.

Corporate Overview:
Napkyn is an entrepreneurial, autonomous business that can draw on the full support of parent company Kepler Group, a member of the kyu Collective alongside IDEO, SYPartners, BEworks, Sid Lee and others. kyu is a strategic unit within Hakuhodo DY, a top 10 marketing services group with over 25,000 employees worldwide. Kepler and Napkyn are committed to delivering world class perks & benefits, offering dynamic career opportunities across our network of offices, and maintaining constant focus on creating a diverse, supportive and inclusive workplace environment. 

Role Description:
The Software Engineer contributes to the ongoing development and continuous improvement of Napkyn’s internal software for automation of deployment, configuration,
QA and monitoring tasks.
This hands-on role focuses on automating core technical processes and ensuring that Napkyn’s systems are highly-performant and scaleable for the team and for our clients who benefit from its output and its ongoing testing and monitoring capabilities for their critical measurement infrastructure.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create new components for Napkyn’s platform, based on user stories and/or detailed requirement specifications, including frontend (Angular/TypeScript) and backend (Kotlin) components.
• Develop enhancements to the existing platform that further improve Napkyn’s automation capabilities for customer deployments, development, testing and ongoing monitoring.
• Review and respond to feedback and bug reports / issues from the Napkyn team and triage incoming requests to resolve issues with the platform based on priority (as directed by senior Napkyn team).
• Assist with periodic reviews and assessments (e.g., penetration tests) performed by external parties to ensure the security of Napkyn’s platform.

Skills & Experience:

Required:

• A solid background in software engineering, which may be any combination of formal education at a post-secondary institution and industry experience.
• At least 2 years of experience developing software in an industry context.
• A solid understanding of, and industry experience with, Kotlin (or Java) as programming language and the Java Virtual Machine as a runtime environment.
• Proficiency writing code in Kotlin (for JVM) and/or Python.
• Familiarity with Angular and TypeScript for writing front-end code.
• Familiarity with Google Firebase, especially Cloud Firestore.
• Strong understanding of frontend web technologies.
• Strong understanding of security best practices for web-based applications.
• Able to work independently and learn technical information quickly.
• Experience with product development and devops processes.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills with an attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and document technical issues.
• Experience writing unit tests to ensure high-quality code in a complex system.

Preferred:

Experience with any of the following are considered strong assets for anyone applying:

• Experience with Selenium WebDriver, Puppeteer, or other tools for automated UI testing in web or mobile applications.
• Experience with Google Analytics or other digital analytics platforms, and/or tag management systems (especially Google Tag Manager).
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, in general; Google Cloud Professional certifications for data engineering, ML engineering or application development and infrastructure are an asset.
• Digital analytics or related data-centric practice areas.
• Kotlin Multiplatform development.
• Python.
• TypeScript and NodeJS runtimes.
• Development for AI / Machine Learning applications and LLM interactions.
• Automated software testing and test-driven development.
• Building APIs for consumption by front-end clients.

Napkyn welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for applicants in all aspects of the selection process. We are committed to
diversity of background, thought and experience, and we work to create an environment in which all our employees thrive by bringing their authentic self to work.

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Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive health and dental benefits.
• Tuition reimbursement and training stipend.
• Hybrid Office/WFH Schedules: office supplies, internet, and phone stipend.
• “Work from Anywhere” 4 weeks per year.
• Stocked kitchen, and other team outings.
• Collaborative and friendly work space, easily commutable location.
• Volunteering & altruism opportunities.
• Team building lunches and events, and company celebrations: Summer, Halloween, Holidays, and many multicultural holidays recognized/celebrated.
• If something is important to you that’s not listed here, let us know!

Career & Development Focus

• Ongoing learning and development for education opportunities such as webinars, books, classes, relevant conferences and events.
• Opportunities to pursue business related side projects and Hackathons.
• Environment of learning from peers, including 30+ class training program, Kepler University, powered by Center of Excellence and Tiger Team subject matter expert groups.
• Opportunity to work with cutting edge technology and industry thought leaders.
• Kepler Rocket Mentorship Program: beneficial for the development of both mentors and mentees.

**All applications must include a Resume & Cover Letter in English to be considered. 

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