lead Software Engineer

Software EngineerBasic Qualifications: •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 KubernetesEXTERNAL JOB DESCRIPTION: 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 experienceResponsibilities: • 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 environmentQualifications Ad Tech Industry Required Education Must have a 4 year STEM degree