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About Ovative Group:

Ovative Group is an independent, full-funnel media, measurement, and creative firm. Leveraging our deep industry expertise, we help brands like Best Buy, Domino's, American Eagle, The Home Depot, Post, Disney, Tumi, Michael Kors, Boost Mobile, and UnitedHealth Group transform their media and measurement programs. The result? Profitable growth that speaks for itself.

At Ovative, we don't just track data, we redefine success. How do we do it? Our proprietary MarTech platform, EMRge helps businesses transform marketing into a driver of sustainable growth. Powered by Enterprise Marketing Return (EMR), our differentiated approach to holistic media buying, planning, and measurement, EMRge is the first MarTech platform to measure businesses holistically. We're all about raising the bar every day, and it shows. Our work has been recognized by organizations like Digiday, Google, Inc. 5000, USA Today, and Search Engine Land.

About the Role:

We are seeking a Data & Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing product and engineering development team.
Our company specializes in enterprise-level media measurement and optimization across various industries.
In this role, you will be an integral part of a cross-functional team responsible for creating,optimizing, andmaintainingscalable software and data solutions to enhance performance, stability, and scalability. You will work under the guidance of experienced team members and closely collaborate with stakeholders throughout the entire software development lifecycle, from concept to deployment.
The ideal candidate will havea strong foundationin iterative development practices, familiarity with version control systems like GitHub, and a passion for developing both conceptual and pragmatic problem-solving skills. You are curious about using modern AI tools as part of your daily workflow and can balance AI-assisted development with rigorous testing, documentation, and review. Your attention to detail and communication skills, both written and oral, will enable you to work directly with a variety of users, understand theirobjectives, and contribute to translating them into technical requirements and solutions. As a valuable team member, you will be encouraged to learn and grow in a supportive environment, activelyparticipatein team activities, andsetthe foundation for your professional development.

Responsibilities of a Data & Software Engineer:

Assistin designing, developing, testing, and deploying software solutions that align with business and technical requirements.

Contribute to the effort ofidentifyingopportunities for automation with a focus on the operational stability of software applications and systems

Collaborate with your team to support translating business goals and user requirements into detailed, actionable technical requirements

Contribute to documentation and technical requirements, including software designs, evaluation plans, test results, technical manuals and formal recommendations and reports

Contribute to the creation and maintenance of robust, performant solutions that provide high customer impact at scale

Provide technicalassistanceto teammates as needed through collaboration and by sharing yourexpertise

Follow established software and product engineering best practices, including code quality, documentation, deployment, and testing.

Explorenew technologiesand tools under guidance to enhance software development.

Troubleshoot software issues with support from senior team members as needed.

Participatein technical knowledge sharing with other team members.

Stay current with emerging technology and software engineering innovations and continuously enhance skills.

Adhere to SDLC and DevOps best practices,maintaininghigh standardsof quality and security across all phases of development.

Leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, internal LLM tooling) to explore solution options, generate scaffolding code, and improve development velocity whilemaintainingcode quality and security.

Requirements:

3+ years of relevant data & software engineering development experience

Proficiencyin SQL, Python, command-line tools, and ETL/ELT pipelines for large datasets, including AI and analytics use cases

Familiarity with cloud platforms and modern AI concepts/tools, such as GCP, AWS, AI/ML APIs, vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval

Strong attention to detail, communication skills, anda track recordof knowledge-sharing with team members

Preferred:

Experience with iterative development and Agile methodologies, including familiarity withSAFeor similar scaled frameworks.

Experience with AI/ML frameworks or APIs (e.g., OpenAI,HuggingFace,LangChain, or similar)

Experience working with data warehouses and big data tools (e.g.,BigQuery, Databricks)

Experience working with APIs for data retrieval

Experience building lightweight internal tools, agents, or workflows that orchestrate LLM calls (e.g., prompt templates, retrieval-augmented generation, or scripted helpers for teammates).

Experience working with marketing,analyticsand customer data

Experience contributing to data/table architecture

Experience integrating data models within software

Pay Transparency

AtOvative, we offer a transparent view into three core components of your total compensation package: Base Salary, Annual Bonus, and Benefits. The salary range for this position below is inclusive of an annual bonus.Actual offers are made with consideration for relevant experience andanticipatedimpact.Additionalbenefits information is provided below.

For our Data & Software Engineer positions, our compensation ranges from$75,000 to $93,000, which is inclusive of a15% bonus.