Job Description

As a Staff Engineer on Sovrn’s Data Team, you will help to build and maintain our Data Decisioning product line. This product gives publishers an actionable way of connecting their audiences with advertisers through Sovrn’s Meridian platform. As a Staff Engineer you will be responsible for mentoring more junior engineers and aid in facilitating daily stand-ups.

Responsibilities

• Member of an agile team participating across all aspects of software development
• Provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers
• Translate requirement and use cases into functional applications
• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable and reliable code

Qualifications

• Strong experience within Java applications, with a solid foundation in data structures, algorithms and system design
• High level of proficiency in modern object oriented software design and development
• Knowledge of web and internet fundamentals
• Knowledge of object oriented programming with Javascript
• Understanding of both relational databases and NoSQL databases
• Development experience on Linux platforms
• Source control (GitHub, svn, etc)
• Build and deployment tools (Maven, etc)
• Experience with full SDLC
• Excel in a fast paced agile development environment
• Articulate; excellent written and verbal communication skills
• B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience

 Bonus Points!

• Experience with Java Spring, Hive and Cassandra
• Experience with CICD
• Advertising industry experience

 Reports to: Director of Engineering