Senior Software Engineer

Company: Aceolution
Location: Boulder
Posted on: July 31, 2022

Job Description:

The TeamWe are a passionate group building the Yield Analytics product, our industry[1]leading Forecasting and Inventory Management platform built for media owners. Our team and platform have a long history of developing forecasting insights and accuracy that inform planning, pacing, and decisioning for direct and programmatic selling. Our platform allows our customers to understand and manage sales performance, earn more for their audience data, and optimally deliver guaranteed commitments. Our customers include marquee names in the digital media and streaming TV industry. We develop systems, applications, and products that transform our customers' data into actionable insights to monetize their content. Data analysis and forecasting are our prime focus areas. We process, inspect, and analyze billions of ad events nightly to provide unparalleled forecasting to our clients. -The Yield Analytics product has proven its value to our clients and is currently undergoing a major redesign to allow it to run in a cloud-native platform. You will have an opportunity to be at the forefront of this redesign. We have a strong team of developers and are looking for additional talent that can help us build new forecasting and inventory management features while redesigning the legacy system. -About You --- You are a driven senior developer that writes code to extract every ounce of performance. --- You pride yourself on making sure you are using the correct data types and patterns that allow for the most efficient processing possible. --- You pay attention to the cost of data movement and only move what's necessary, relevant, and provides value to downstream systems. --- You have a keen eye for modularizing and reusing components when opportunities arise. --- You love taking systems that work but have outgrown their capacity and update them through reusing, rebuilding, and re-architecting for the future. --- You love sharing your knowledge across teams, mentoring, and watching others grow in their abilities. -If this sounds like you, we would love to talk with you and share what our teams are doing and the exciting work ahead. -Your Responsibilities--- Write well factored, well tested, high performance, memory conscious code, where microseconds matter and garbage collection is taboo. --- Work in areas such as ETL, Map Reduce, Spark, Yarn, and a high-performance allocation engine. --- Redesign legacy systems by understanding what they do and proposing new solutions, maintaining focus on designing to run on a cloud-native platform. --- Work with Product Managers and Engineering teams to deliver business strategic and platform modernization projects. --- Possess ownership of mission critical systems, along with participating in support rotation and driving issues to closure. --- Review code and provide guidance to coworkers to ensure best practices as they relate to the code's accuracy, completeness, and design. --- Foster an agile environment focused on delivering client value. -Required Skills --- 8+ years of software development experience. --- Strong experience with Java. --- Experience writing high-performance and maintainable code. --- Ability to demonstrate ownership of past projects and systems. --- Experience contributing to the architecture and design of new and current systems. --- Experience collaborating cross-functionally to understand and translate business needs into actionable projects. --- Ability to provide and receive feedback from colleagues at any level.
Nice to Have Skills --- Experience working with legacy code and modernizing portions of a legacy system effectively. --- Experience with Big-Data technologies like Map Reduce and Spark. --- Familiarity with ETL technologies. --- Familiarity with Graph and Relational databases. --- Familiarity with running code on Cloud platforms. --- Familiarity with containerization like Docker and Kubernetes -More about you --- You are passionate about a culture of learning and teaching. You love challenging yourself to constantly improve and sharing your knowledge to empower others around you. --- You like to take risks when looking for novel solutions to complex problems. If faced with roadblocks, you continue to reach higher to make greatness happen. --- You care about solving big, systemic problems. You look beyond the surface to understand root causes so that you can build long-term sustainable solutions for the whole ecosystem. --- You believe in not only serving customers, but also empowering them by providing the right knowledge and tools.

Keywords: Aceolution, Boulder , Senior Software Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , Boulder, Colorado