Position Overview
As a Senior Engineer, you will collaborate with cross functional teams to help set the technology strategy for Ad Tech platforms, including DSP, SSP, and Ad Servers, for self-service advertising needs. You will help assessing build/buy decisions for new capabilities through POCs and prototypes, keeping in mind long-term vs. short-term tradeoffs. You lead engineering efforts to meet functional and non-functional requirements and assist teams in resolving business challenges via current technical solutions. Work with engineering manager to build a high performing engineering team and provide technical leadership, coaching, motivation and participate in the selection of technical talent. You are a thought leader and actively participate and contribute to the Target technical community.
About you:
- Have 4+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation
- Understands Ad Tech business fundamentals and how technologies can support business goals along with how to translate business vision into a technical strategy while understanding the financial implications
- Preferred experience in building and or integrating DSP, SSP, Ad Server technology platforms in support of self-service Advertising
- Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education
- Passionate about the backend, especially about API's
- Fluent in Java / Spring and microservices
- Experienced working with databases (RDBMS, NoSQL such as Cassandra, Mongo etc)
- Experienced with Kafka
- Enjoy mentoring junior engineers
- Effective at collaboration with Product experts
- Stay current with the technology best practices and trends
- Worked within CI/CD, DevOps environment
- Has proven leadership capabilities, the ability to influence others, interpersonal skills, and problem-solving skills