Java Software Engineer

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million. Whether you're looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business-and the world. Want in?
Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain features in our complex, low latency, performance oriented and highly scalable backend ad serving systems
• Design solutions to software problems, desirable
• Write and test high quality code using Java and related technologies, eg. Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Junit, etc
• Collaborate with product and other technical teams to clarify requirements.
• Work with a cross-functional and geographically distributed team of engineers
• Analyze and optimize code to ensure the SSP performs within our customer's SLA requirements.
• Troubleshoot production issues related to the team's applications.
• Effectively manages day-to-day tasks in an Agile process to meet scheduled commitments.
• Write unit tests and specification documents
• Review and provide feedback on other's code submissions.
• Mentor junior engineers.

Requirements:

• BS/MS in computer science or related field or equivalent experience.
• Excellent communication skills
• Familiar with concepts and popular tools for dev ops
• Experience using Git
• 3+ years of experience designing and programming Java based applications.
• Familiar with software design methods and techniques.
• Experience with developing complex, low latency, performance oriented and highly scalable backend applications.
• Ability to design the classes to store hierarchical relation data and traverse through it.( for eg. data structure & algorithm)
• Ability to think about all test cases and validate the solution on those.
• Experience with databases, MySQL - advantage
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Must have a solid understanding of object oriented programming.
• Experience with continuous integration and large scale automated deployment (CI/CD)
• Familiarity with Internet protocols such as HTTP and SSL

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