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Kevel

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2010

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

💰 Series C on 2023-01

Advertising • eCommerce • SaaS

Kevel is a company that provides an API-based ad serving solution, designed to allow businesses to build their own custom ad servers. Kevel offers tools such as the Kevel Ad Server and Kevel Audience to enable targeting, campaign management, decisioning, reporting, and first-party data utilization. They focus on retail media networks, marketplaces, and eCommerce, empowering retailers and advertisers to create and manage personalized ad formats using their own data. With a suite of developer tools and APIs, Kevel enables fast implementation and in-house management of ad technology, ensuring data privacy and compliance.

📋 Description

• Evolve the ad decision pipeline, including balancing and pacing, indexing, filtering, selection, and budgeting. • Improve the platform's architectural qualities, helping ensure our foundation provides the scalability, reliability, security, and performance our global customers require. • Work closely with the product management team to help design and build new features. • Help provide operational oversight for the platform, making sure we are up and running 24/7. • Work closely with our customer success teams to deliver value and drive growth.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience building and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment. • Strong programming experience in at least one production backend language, ideally Clojure, Rust, Node.js, Java, Kotlin, Scala, or another JVM language. • Experience designing or maintaining latency-sensitive systems with tight response-time requirements. • Experience with HTTP-based APIs and production service integrations. • Experience working with databases, including transactional data models. • Comfortable participating in an on-call rotation with clear escalation paths. • Preferred: Strong AWS and/or GCP experience across compute, storage, messaging, networking, and IAM. • Experience with infrastructure as code, such as AWS CDK, CDKTF, Terraform, or similar tools. • Experience with event streaming or stream processing systems. • Experience with observability platforms, including metrics, logs, alerts, tracing, and infrastructure monitoring. • Experience improving testability and reducing feedback cycle times through unit, integration, simulation, or load testing. • Experience refactoring existing distributed systems without changing external behavior. • Experience working on high-throughput systems with sub-100ms response budgets. • Nice To Have: Experience with ad serving, auctions, pacing, budgeting, targeting, or real-time decisioning systems. • Experience with functional programming or Clojure specifically. • Experience modernizing legacy systems while keeping production systems highly available. • Experience supporting globally distributed, multi-region services. • Experience working closely with product and customer-facing teams on technical product features.

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully Remote Team: We are a 100% remote work environment with employees located around the world. • Flexible Working Hours: We understand our employees have their own lives, responsibilities and working preferences. • Comprehensive Health Benefits - Kevel provides 100% employer paid medical benefits for our employees and their children, plus comprehensive, affordable coverage for all other dependents. • 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 also offer Paid Holidays + a Kevel Holiday Break (from 12/24 - 1/1 every year!) • 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 windows or mac machine (your choice) + a $500 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 annual allowance to subscribe to the news source of your choice.