Job Description

Job Overview

Serving billions of impressions per month on a variety of websites with different audiences, we collect data from our publisher embed technology and use this data to serve better advertisements for our publishers.  Our publishers expect a stable high quality product that they can build their businesses around.  Technical architect/Lead engineers make sure that we are able to scale our systems to store large volumes of data and service billions of requests each month, while providing in-depth analytics to our publishers.  

You will get the opportunity to work on a variety of our back-end systems and have ownership of features from conception through delivery.  Our current tech stack includes Kafka, Micro-services, React/Redux, NodeJS, ElasticSearch, AWS Athena, Analytics Datawarehouses, and Java Spring Boot based microservices.

Challenges and Opportunities for the position

Have a personal impact:: You’ll be involved in planning, architecting, and ultimately releasing to production new products and features that will help drive this business forward. The work here is incredibly rewarding if you take pride in what you produce.
Work on an organized team:: You’ll slot in to an incredibly efficient engineering team. An agile work environment with well defined workload, scope, and tasks that will have you focusing on what you need to do and producing great work within a two week sprint cycle.
Opportunity to have fun:: The engineering team here means business but has fun while doing it. We keep things light while accomplishing a ton of work in short periods of time. Everyone here is invested in what they produce but can still find the time to smile and joke around.
Better yourself and others:: We are constantly looking to evolve. Investigating new technologies and techniques, we never stay stagnant. It’s a great group of engineers who are looking to keep learning. Management is very open to change, so introducing new ways of doing things is appreciated and encouraged.

Responsibilities and Duties.

Analyze and decompose complex software systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to influence design for testability across Insticator.
Design and build advanced and highly scalable automated, test, and release infrastructure.
Drive adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability.
Help build teams and cultivate innovation by driving cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams.
Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards.
Collaborate effectively with the design, product, and engineering team in a global variety of applications.
Audit existing codebase for performance enhancements.Develop new products from the ground up aiding in architectural decisions.
Responsible and thorough testing of output in all supported browsers and devices.

Qualifications

Professional Competencies

Experience as technical leader within a SaaS software development organization( 50% hands-on, 25%- Team management, 25% - Requirements/Backlog management) .

10+ years of professional (non-internship) experience developing distributed systems
Proficient experience in one or more of the following: Java, Spring boot, Go, Python
Advanced understanding of design patterns and coding practices especially as applied to microservices architectures and API design, implementation and management
Experience developing and operating high-volume low-latency distributed services
Experience refining technical strategy and mentoring engineers
Can thrive in a fast-moving and fast-changing environment
Experience or familiarity with the AWS ecosystem of services (EC2, ECS, RDS, Dynamo, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc.)
Experience or familiarity with experience building GraphQL APIs
Experience or familiarity with ETL pipelines (Kinesis, Airflow, Redshift, Spark)
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and the container ecosystem Experience or familiarity with ML and probabilistic problem solving
Strong experience of modern CICD methodology and Git based workflow
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Highly motivated, curious, capable and a lifetime learner
Experience with Agile methodologies preferred

Cultural Competencies

Out of box thinking, willingness to learn from failures and bring innovation to the center stage. 

Creative confidence
Collaborative mindset and great teamwork skills
Skilled at receiving feedback, as well as providing it
Entrepreneurial & adaptable; great learning skills
Transparent & communicative, patient
Curious, research-minded, data-informed