about 4 hours ago
Base Salary
$180k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior engineer on a team building high-performance services for Nexxen DSP.
- Transform vague business requirements into clear technical designs and drive them to production.
- Collaborate with product teams and stakeholders to shape project requirements and roadmaps.
- Take ownership of complex initiatives from design to post-launch operation.
- Manage data access for billions of records and millions of operations per second.
- Write testable and performant code for high-throughput services.
- Conduct code reviews and mentor junior engineers to improve code quality.
- Apply an SRE mindset to ensure reliability and operational excellence.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in distributed systems.
- Drive test, monitoring, and automation coverage across services.
- Collaborate on technical design and contribute to architectural decisions.
- Explore and prototype emerging technologies, especially AI.
- Participate in Agile/DevOps practices and planning sessions.
Requirements
- Expert Java engineer with 7+ years of experience in building backend systems at scale.
- In-depth knowledge of the JVM ecosystem for achieving low latency and high throughput.
- Strong grounding in distributed computing principles.
- Proficient in SQL/RDBMS and NoSQL databases like Aerospike or Cassandra.
- Ability to independently translate business problems into technical designs.
- SRE mindset focused on reliability and operational excellence.
- Experience in code review and technical mentorship.
- Detail-oriented in requirements gathering and scope clarification.
- Hands-on experience with real-time streaming technologies like Kafka.
- Strong understanding of Linux environments and networking techniques.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong communication skills for articulating technical concepts.
- Interest in AdTech and applying AI to solve problems.
- Prior AdTech industry experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Disability insurance and 401(k) plan.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Parental leave and discretionary time off.
- Company-paid holidays.