Senior Software Engineer

WE HAVE CREATED A WORLD WHERE ART AND SCIENCE ARE BEST FRIENDS

Known is a modern marketing company engineered for the unprecedented opportunities and challenges facing marketers today. We are about 250+ people strong, pairing PhD data scientists with award-winning creatives, strategists, engineers and expert research teams to produce some of the most innovative and cutting-edge creative work in culture. We believe that when creative truly collaborates with science, strategy, and technology, amazing things can happen.

Ad Age touted that “Known may be the ultimate example of a full-service agency,” and honored us with top ten status on Ad Agency A-List for 2024 & 2025, and as Ad Age’s Data & Insights Agency of the year for a record third year in a row. Without our incredible partnerships with our clients, spanning across the leading brands in finance, technology, entertainment, media, CPG, real estate, and many other categories, honors like this could not be possible, and also have helped us earn additional awards and recognitions over the years like: Emmys, Clios, Effies, Cannes Lions Awards, ProMax Agency of the Year, Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas, Digiday’s 2025 Best AI Platform and Digiday’s Most Innovative Media Agency, to name a few.

Our offices around the U.S. are open and while most of our people work in a hybrid setting, we are a distributed workforce with a number of Knowners working remotely.

BUT ENOUGH ABOUT US, LET'S TALK ABOUT YOU

As a Senior Software Engineer at Known, you can expect to work across various projects. You’ll join small, highly focused teams where you’ll have the opportunity to significantly influence the direction of our products, team practices, and the company’s broader technical culture.

Because our work is often project-driven, we are constantly reevaluating and updating our tech stack, which means you’ll always learn new skills and develop expertise in industry-leading technologies.

You’ll be writing Python day-to-day on the backend to author FastAPI APIs, build pipelines, and craft distributed systems. You’ll be building web UIs in Typescript and Vue. You’ll use Docker and Helm to deploy your containerized applications to our Kubernetes clusters. You’ll be using Terraform to spin infrastructure up and down. Finally, if you’re interested, you may be contributing to open source.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design and build full-stack web applications in Python
• Create performant Web APIs with FastAPI
• Integrate with industry-standard datastores like PostgreSQL and Snowflake
• Design asynchronous and event-driven services
• Produce robust ETL pipelines with Argo Workflows
• Deploy these applications across multiple environments with Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes
• Work closely with data scientists and product managers on a wide variety of products and projects that span the marketing and advertising industries across both television and digital
• Play an active role in designing and building new, cutting-edge products

WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU HAVE

• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• 3+ years of professional experience building and maintaining production applications in Python
• Deep understanding of Python as a language
• Experience with SQL and relational databases