About the position
At adMarketplace, our mission is to deliver the most engaging consumer search experiences while empowering advertisers to measure media performance accurately. Today, millions of people worldwide engage with our exclusive, transparent media placements across the internet's leading browsers, shopping apps, and review sites. Our award-winning culture is built around five core values (known as our 5C's): Curiosity, Collaboration, Creative Conflict, Commitment, and Competitiveness. With these guiding values, adMarketplace seeks to empower our team to reach their full potential through continued learning, and the opportunity to do their best work. We seek self-driven and talented engineers to design, develop, and operate high volume, low latency systems powering consumer tech products. The ideal candidate is a passionate technology leader who is motivated to design for massive scale. You will be involved in the entire software development lifecycle, from understanding business value to designing, coding, testing, and supporting the products in production. You love working in an environment where you can influence the technical direction of teams that seek to deliver consistently and iterate quickly. You will benefit from a transparent career advancement trajectory, whether you aspire to excel in management or thrive as an individual contributor. Our intellectually vibrant and dynamic workplace offers ample opportunities for both personal and professional development, ensuring your growth journey is both rewarding and fulfilling.
Responsibilities
- Act as a technical leader, driving innovation, and contributing to architectural decisions that shape the future direction of our ad technology platform.
- With creativity and innovation, tackle complex technical challenges while creating highly scalable, resilient distributed systems in a consumer-facing environment.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, data scientists, and other engineers, to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a collaborative team environment for knowledge sharing and skill development.
- Continuously improve the system by researching and implementing the latest technologies and best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of strong hands-on development experience using Java (Java 17+ preferred), including expertise with Spring Boot or another dependency injection framework.
- Proven experience in developing and maintaining low latency, high-volume, scalable Microservices.
- Deep understanding of design patterns, and best practices, with a track record of successfully implementing scalable and efficient solutions.
- Strong initiative, ability to drive projects independently, and excellent problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with full transparency and a strong desire and ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
Nice-to-haves
- Knowledge of key concepts in Ad Tech, such as ad serving, bidding, targeting, and real-time auctions.
- Comfortable with containerization, CI/CD pipelines, AWS, plus messaging technologies such as Kafka and RabbitMQ.
- Experienced with distributed caching technologies such as Redis and Aerospike.
- Familiarity with profiling and tuning JVM based applications, and with performance test frameworks.
- Contributions to open-source projects or active involvement in technical communities.
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare
- Wellness programs
- Paid time off
- Commuter benefits
- 401k matching
- Summer Fridays
- Catered lunches
- Fully stocked kitchen
- ZogSports teams
- Happy hours
- Corporate retreats
- Robust continuing education program
- Management training
- Regular company-wide lunch and learns
- Well-defined career paths
