Senior Software Engineer at Alfred & Victoria Associates

Department: Technology
Reports to: Software Engineering Manager
Supervision: Software Engineering Manager

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Work through the full life-cycle management, including requirements analysis, technical design, implementation, testing and documentation.
• Create technical test specifications and schedule estimates for new products.
• Contribute to the development of both internal and partner software integration projects, as well as new web and mobile applications.
• Maintain and extend existing codebase and libraries.
• Communicate complex ideas with ease, both in person and in writing.
• Provide escalated ticket/incident management for supported applications as well as will participate in defect management, issue tracking/trending.
• Taking leadership in owning issue resolution and driving them to completion.
• Ensuring that incident and problem management processes and procedures are followed and adhered to standards.
• Communicating to end users, engineers, and operations.
• Provide performance /capacity metrics and ad hoc reporting of the same.
• Provide technical expertise and share knowledge with team as required.
• Monitor the application performance and provide technical support as required.

Qualification/Competencies Required

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or any Physical science.
• 4-5 years working experience in AdTech.
• Prior ad tech industry experience. The ideal candidate will know what Programmatic, DSP, DMP, CPM, OTT and ad serving means and demonstrate the ability to explain it to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Exposure to distributed systems and big data.
• Professional experience with Java, Cassandra, Kafka, Aerospike
• Knowledge of mobile app SDKs, APIs, RTB platforms/specs
• Strong knowledge of concurrent collections, multi-threading, JVM memory model, etc.
• Great understanding of designing for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• In-depth understanding of object-oriented programming concepts.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Understanding of full software development life cycle, agile development and continuous integration
• Good knowledge of Linux command line tools.
• Solid understanding of database fundamentals, good knowledge of SQL.

Salary
Very attractive.