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Senior Software Development Engineer - BrightRoll
Yahoo!
San Francisco, CA, United States
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A Little About Us
The Brightroll Ad Exchange is one world’s largest marketplaces for online advertising - combining the might of Yahoo and BrightRoll. We are responsible for growing that real time marketplace by rapidly adding new features, winning millions of dollars of additional revenue for Yahoo. We are searching for excellent engineers with experience in both client and server-side technology and are flexible with the software languages and technologies used.
A Lot About You
You are a programming generalist who is comfortable using many tools to ensure we can handle billions of requests per day successfully. We are looking for someone who thrives working on systems where success or failure is measured in millions of dollars. You love to Get Stuff Done and get it done quickly without sacrificing production stability in the process. You are passionate about collaboration and believe that a great team working together is exponentially more effective than a collection of individuals. You bring simplicity, joy, and humility to the team and your code every hour of every day.
Your Day
• Make the APIs and middleware to enable many more attributes to be added to our inventory packaging and deals system
• Expand our creative scoring system to inspect new dimensions
• Validate with other engineers that your designs follow the KISS principle while ensuring flexibility for future enhancements
• Test your code like hundreds of millions of dollars is on the line (because it is!)
• Mentor other team members and perform code reviews
• Collaborate with product owners to help balance feature depth vs speed to
You Must Have
• Proficiency with a least one backend programming language (Java, Ruby, Scala)
• Experience with networking (TCP, HTTP, etc)
• Strong general CS knowledge
• Be adept working with linux systems