Senior Software Engineer, Product Infrastructure

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We are Quantcast. Global leaders in AI-powered programmatic advertising and media performance. With measurement and consumer analytics in our DNA, we empower marketers to reach audiences and deliver measurable outcomes. Our mission is to make every marketer more successful, every campaign outperforms expectations, empowering brands to build meaningful relationships with consumers and achieve business results.

Since our founding in 2006, Quantcast has led the industry with some market-changing firsts including the first measurement platform for digital publishers and the first AI-powered DSP. If you're ready to join a passionate team building cutting-edge solutions - Quantcast is for you.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, implement and maintain micro-services oriented backend architectures, you are passionate about API standards, Test Driven Development and have strong opinions on the right way to build and operate services. You will be part of a team that plays a key role in making architectural decisions and you will collaborate with other engineering teams and product owners to solve problems for both external customers and Quantcast engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Define, code, test, and deploy new features to our cloud-hosted ad management services with an emphasis on API standards, extensibility, robustness and performance.
• Work cross-functionally with Product and other Engineering teams to contribute to the product definition and system design.
• Continually evaluate and instill best practices into the development process, including automated testing, code organization and style, and application architecture.
• Work with Product Managers to develop product intuition and actively contribute to the roadmap.

Requirements:

• Computer Science degree or equivalent experience.
• Strong core Java skills (or similar language - knowledge of GO is highly desirable).
• Strong experience in designing and implementing APIs and Microservices.
• Strong experience with database technologies both SQL and NoSQL and entity frameworks.
• Experience designing, implementing and operating business-critical applications.
• Experience with container technologies (Docker or similar) and container orchestration tools (Kubernetes or similar).
• Understanding of Messaging Technologies (Kafka, SQS).
• Experience of Cloud technology (AWS or similar)Understanding of the full software development life cycle (scoping, prioritization, planning, execution, operation, end-of-life) and the tools that assist it (source control, continuous integration, deployment tools) in an Agile environment.

Personal skills:

• You communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
• You are customer and quality orientated.
• You take ownership and you support your team.
• You resolve problems both independently and collaboratively by having open discussions with the team about best approaches to technical or product challenges.

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