Staff Software Engineer, Java

Who We Are

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 mantra at adMarketplace is to let our winners run. From your very first day at AMP, you’ll have the opportunity to start making a valuable contribution to our company.

We’ve built our award-winning culture around five core values (known as our 5C’s) : Curiosity, Collaboration, Creative Conflict, Commitment, and Competitiveness.

With these guiding values, adMarketplace seeks to empower each and every employee to succeed, continue learning, and do their best work.

The Role

We seek self-driven and talented engineers to architect, 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 architecting, 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.
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental factors that drive our business and recognize the critical role our ad serving technologies play within it.
• 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 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.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Must have 7+ 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 software architecture, 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.
• Has led a software engineering team on a large-scale software engineering project.
• Familiarity with profiling and tuning JVM based applications, and with performance test frameworks.
• Contributions to open-source projects or active involvement in technical communities
• Compensation Range : $190,000 - $240,000

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Join Us

adMarketplace has been named as one of the best places to work in New York City by Built In and Crain’s- the latter of which have recognized us the past three years straight! AMP is currently experiencing triple digit growth, and it’s never been a better time to join our team!

We offer a robust continuing education program, management training, regular company-wide lunch and learns, and well-defined career paths to ensure all our employees have an opportunity to grow.

At adMarketplace, we play to win, but we learn from our setbacks. Our commitment to a collaborative environment means no one succeeds alone, and no one fails alone either.

We know you’ve come to expect comprehensive healthcare, wellness programs, paid time off, commuter benefits, and 401k matching from any company, so it’s a good thing we offer all of that and so much more.

adMarketplace offers a dog friendly office, Summer Fridays, catered lunches, a fully stocked kitchen, ZogSports teams, happy hours and corporate retreats to encourage a strong work / life balance.