lead Software Engineer

Job Title

The team is fully responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining the high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Digital Advertising Platform. We also work on integrations with critical services responsible for the correct pacing, targeting, and selection of ads.

As a member of our team, you will apply your knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, and testable software. On a daily basis you should bring:

• A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems.
• Demonstrated ownership for the projects delivered by your team and department.
• Knowledge of system design and implementation best practices to guide and mentor.
• A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast paced environment.
• A proven ability to work with product teams to translate requirements into well-defined technical implementations, as well as the ability to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health.
• An eye for potential optimizations and enhancements to our services.
• Kindness and pragmatic optimism.
• Your unique view and experience.

Responsibilities:

• Writing and reviewing a lot of code and tests.
• Available for a weekly-rotating On-Call support schedule.
• Reading requirements documentation from Product and translating into implementation tickets, and leading the team through execution.
• Defining, reviewing, and documenting software and system designs in a high throughput, low latency microservices environment.

Qualifications:

• Ad Tech Industry Required Education: Must have a 4 year STEM degree.
• 14+ years of software engineering experience.
• Advanced proficiency with Java, such as understanding heap, multi-threading, profiling.
• Experience with Digital Ad Platforms preferred.
• Comprehensive experience with: SpringBoot and related Spring projects, Non-relational database technologies (e.g. DynamoDB), Redis and/or MemCache, Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis, AWS or other cloud platform, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes.