Lead Java Spring AWS Developer

Lead Software Engineer

Onsite in Seattle, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Glendale, Burbank

18+ months contract

Description

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will apply your knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, and testable software. In this role, you will need -

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.

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

7+ years of software engineering experience.

Advanced proficiency with Java, such as understanding heap, multi-threading, profiling, etc.

Demonstrable analytical / problem solving skills.

Great communication, collaboration skills and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

Spring Boot and related Spring projects

Non-relational database technologies e.g. DynamoDB

Redis and/or Memcached

Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis

AWS or other cloud platform

Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes

Ad Tech industry experience

Education

STEM BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant work experience

The estimated pay range for this position is USD $90.00/hr - USD $98.50/hr. Exact compensation and offers of employment are dependent on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, licenses or certifications, and location. We also offer comprehensive benefits. The Talent Acquisition Partner can share more details about compensation or benefits for the role during the interview process.