Permutive is a real-time data platform that empowers publishers and advertisers to address all of their audiences, whilst protecting consumer privacy and respecting user consent.
Our unique technology sits behind some of the world's largest publishers such as News Corp, Hearst, BuzzFeed, The Guardian, Conde Nast International to name a few — we enable them to understand and personalise user experiences for hundreds of millions of people every month.
You'll love working with us if you're excited about collaborating with brilliant colleagues, embracing autonomy and responsibility, and tackling challenges that will drive us forward. It’s a great time to join and become a key contributor in shaping Permutive for the future.
Thanks to our category-defining edge technology, we've attracted the attention of global investment partners like EQT Ventures, Octopus Ventures, ACE & Company, and SoftBank Investment Advisers. Additionally, we are listed among YCombinator’s Top 150 companies of all time.
About the Role...
Permutive is looking for a Scala Engineer to join us on the journey of revolutionising the way businesses leverage their data. You'll be part of a team that creates cutting-edge solutions that empower our customers to unleash the full potential of their first-party and partner data within the Permutive platform.
You'll have the opportunity to work with a wide range of technologies, tackling complex challenges and building functionality that solves previously impossible problems for our customers to deliver measurable value through our platform.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact on the future of data-driven marketing.
Our Teams and Technologies
We’re 30+ engineers working to build an outstanding engineering culture so that everyone who joins has the opportunity and the support to do the best work of their life. Small, autonomous teams are important to us, and we want to empower everyone to make—and be accountable for—decisions through ownership.
Everything we build has to scale: our platform handles more requests each day than there are new tweets and Google searches, and each month we serve more than 2 billion user device.. We think applying functional programming techniques like compositionality and type-safety is the best way to build the type of massively distributed system our platform comprises, allowing us to move fast without sacrificing quality.
What we do?
We focus on enabling our customers to leverage all their owned first-party and partner data in the Permutive platform. We are responsible for the APIs and data infrastructure which our customers and partners use to onboard data into the Permutive platform. To give an idea of the scale we operate at, our Events API ingests over 100Bi events monthly, and processes over 70k events/sec at peak times.
From a product perspective, we help our customers onboard various types of data into our platform including behavioural, contextual, modelled and declared data. We also help customers connect related data within our platform, using our Identity infrastructure. The team also collaborates closely with other product engineering teams and provides interfaces to enable them to consume onboarded data and leverage it to build new product features.
What you’ll be doing?
As part of a collaborative engineering team, you will have the unique opportunity to oversee the entire development process, from conception to completion. Your responsibilities will include crafting innovative product features while demonstrating a proactive approach to coding, testing, deploying, and monitoring cutting-edge solutions. Through your contributions, you will play a vital role in driving our platform forward and shaping its future.
We would love to hear from Software Engineers that have knowledge or an interest in working with some of the technologies we use:
- Scala: cats, cats-effect, http4s, fs2, circe, doobie
- Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Kafka, Bigtable, BigQuery, Beam, Postgres, Grafana, Terraform
What you’ll need?
- Understanding of functional programming and general software engineering concepts.
- Experience with Scala programming.
- Interest in batch and stream data processing.
- Excellent communication skills, in particular, when discussing technical concepts.
We'd be particularly excited if you have one or more of the below
- Experience with designing systems that have to operate at scale
- Experience with messaging systems (e.g. Kafka or Kinesis)
- Experience with distributed data stores (e.g. Bigtable, DynamoDB)
- Experience building and deploying microservices, e.g. using Kubernetes
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
- Familiarity with functional Scala libraries, e.g. Fs2, Http4s, Cats or Doobie
- Familiar with stream processing frameworks, e.g. Spark, Beam, or Flink.
What we’re offering…
We take a structured, objective approach to salary-setting, which is based on market information, our compensation strategy, and your experience and capability as assessed through our interview process.
For a typical candidate who meets our requirements, we would pay between £63,750 - £75,000 + options.
Permutive Benefits
- In this together: As a full-time employee, you'll become a shareholder with stock options, sharing in our collective success.
- Family Comes First: New parents receive up to 26 weeks of fully paid leave to bond with their little ones.
- Your Time, Your Way: Flexible hours let you fit work around your life, whether it's hitting the gym, meditating, or handling family needs.
- Upgraded Workspace: A £500 budget helps you create the perfect home office setup.
- Recharge & Refocus: Unlimited paid time off (with a minimum of 25 days + public holidays) ensures you get the rest you need.
- Grow with Us: Ongoing training and development opportunities fuel your career aspirations.
- Mental Health Matters: We prioritise your well-being with free access to Spill, our mental health partner.
- Comprehensive Care: Enjoy virtual GP visits, healthcare services, work-life consultations.
Work Your Way
Permutive trusts you to manage your time and deliver results. Our hybrid model allows you to choose where you work best, whether in your own productive space or our London (Farringdon) or New York (Union Square) offices. That said, none of us work alone; we are part of a team.
To foster collaboration and connection, teams in these locations come together in person at least once a week and are encouraged to benefit from being in our offices to meet with teams more often. Commercial and customer-facing teams are encouraged to embrace in-person interactions to build lasting relationships with clients and colleagues.
Every Permutive employee gets together in person at the company’s Annual Kick Off for a week in February. Each year’s event promises to be an exciting opportunity for us to come together, reconnect with colleagues, and align on our shared vision for the year ahead.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
At Permutive, we’re taking a thoughtful, intersectional, long-term approach to diversity, equity & inclusion. We care deeply about creating an inclusive work environment that allows everyone to flourish, and we are taking continual action to progress in that direction. We’re committed to hiring people regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodiversity status, disability status, or otherwise.
