Staff Engineer (AdTech)

Sovrn; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Sovrn in Boulder, Colorado is seeking a Staff Engineer to join our AdTech team. In this critical role, you will lead software development releases and help in the evolution of complex systems. The ideal candidate should have over 8 years of experience in a scalable environment with strong Java development skills.

You will collaborate within a fast-paced agile team environment and contribute to enhancing our products. Excellent communication and a foundation in system design are vital, alongside experience in the advertising industry.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in scalable systems including tech leadership.
• Strong Java development and design background.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead software development releases for Sovrn products.
• Understand complex systems and their evolution.
• Collaborate with the AdTech team to enhance product offerings.

Skills

Java Development

Agile Development

Database Management

System Design

Communication Skills

Advertising Industry Experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Equivalent

Tools

Maven

MySQL

Hadoop

Kafka

Job description

We spend a great deal of our time online. Whether it’s for information, commerce, or entertainment, each of us has come to depend on what we research, discover, and share. Publishers – those who create and curate content – are what makes the Internet great. Yet these publishers practice their craft largely alone, in siloes – without reference points or insightful understanding about where they sit in the grand scheme of things.To add to the challenge, once a Publisher’s content is in the wild, then the task of building engagement, growing a loyal following and enriching the engagement with that following can sometimes feel like shots in the dark or worse, a black box.Moreover, making money from their craft can be a complex task for any independent publisher who might prioritize generating content first and money second.

Sovrn believes that independent publishers are the Internet's vibrancy.As a partner and advocate to tens of thousands of independent publishers, Sovrn provides tools, technologies and services that help publishers (a) make money; (b) get distribution to grow their audience; and (c) access a massive data commons providing extraordinary insights.

The landscape of content networks, adtech vendors, and the myriad of buy-side / sell-side companies can be a complete maze for any reasonable person to decipher.Sovrn cuts through the noise and simplifies things with a basic, straightforward mission:

Help content creators do more of what they want to do – and less of what they don’t.

Job Description

As a Staff Engineer you will be part of our AdTech team as the ‘go-to’ with the capabilities of understanding complex systems and leading systems evolution. You will also help lead software development releases for Sovrn products.

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience designing, implementing projects in a highly scalable and performant environment using Java, includes experience as a tech lead on a team of 4+ engineers
• B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
• A solid foundation in data structures, algorithms and system design
• Knowledge of web and internet fundamentals
• Strong Java development and design experience
• Excel in a fast paced agile development environment
• Build and deployment tools (Maven, grunt, etc)
• Proficient with relational databases, MySQL, Oracle, etc.
• Experience with full SDLC
• Articulate; excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Advertising industry experience
• Experience with Hive, Hadoop
• PHP
• Ad Servers powered by Java, Jetty, Spring, MySQL, Ehcache and Aerospike
• Lambda based data pipeline leveraging Kafka, Apache Storm, Camus, MapR, Redis

Position Reports to : Director of Engineering