Exciting opportunity to join a profitable and fast growing ad platform, adMarketplace, as the Chief Software Architect. Key responsibility will be to take ownership of company’s platform and manage development and scaling. This is the 2nd most senior technical position in the company, reporting directly to the CTO. Liaison between CTO and department heads. Approximate distribution of duties: 20% Architecting, 20% Code Review, 20% development, 20% project management, 20% other.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure software delivered is production ready
- Manages, evaluates, hires technical staff.
- Propose frameworks, technologies and standards for development
- Responsible for architecture, product development roadmap, scaling, full SDLC
- Ability to effectively manage multiple initiatives across multiple platforms (web, mobile)
- Efficient management of priorities in a constantly shifting environment
- Mentor developers, set standards & code review
- Manages Integration of System Components (Data, Backend, Front End, Systems)
Experience:
- 6+ years J2EE platform development (Spring Framework)
- Python/Open source experience a plus
- Exposure to MYSQL and NoSQL including MongoDB & Modern data warehousing
- Experience leading teams of 10+ people (hands-on)
- Experience with Large Scale High Concurrency Systems
- Strong architecture skills and experience building complex systems, preferably within Ad Serving/Ad Network/Digital Advertising environments
- Experience building and managing high volume/high transaction, low latency platforms with 24/7 uptime
- Passionate about efficiency and automation
- Strong and innate ability to collaborate and communicate with others across the adMarketplace ecosystem
- Degree in Computer Science
- Mastery of Fundamental CS & Software Engineering Concepts
- Understanding of pay per click advertising business model a plus