lead Software Engineer

Job TitleThe 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.