Onward Search is unable to support 1099 / Corp-to-Corp or Independent Contractor arrangements at this time. All contractors will be paid as W2 employees.
As a P4 (Lead Software Engineer) 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
- A keen eye for potential optimizations and enhancements to our services
- Kindness and pragmatic optimism.
- Your unique view and experience
Responsibilities :
- 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 environment
- Enhancing systems’ observability with proper metrics, monitors and alerts
- Delegating tasks to team members, when needed
Basic Qualifications :
- BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience
- 7+ years of software engineering experience
- Advanced proficiency with Java, such as understanding heap, multi-threading, profiling
- Demonstrable analytical / problem solving skills
- Great communication, collaboration skills and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences
Preferred Qualifications :
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 Kubernetes
- Ad Tech industry
Additional Information :
Working hours would need to closely overlap with PST.
Required Education :
- STEM Bachelor's
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