Tech Lead, Ad Exchange
Santa Monica, California, United States On-site
$186,000–$215,000 a yearJobFig found this opening at its original source and checks that it remains available.
About the role
The Ad Exchange engineering team is responsible for the technical development and operations of our Ad Exchange technology. The Ad Exchange software handles a high volume of requests (40 million requests per minute) and is a highly distributed Java web service. Our team currently uses technologies such as Java, Spring, MySQL, Kafka, Aerospike, ScyllaDb, Memcached, and more. This role will lead their team to success, planning and executing projects across the stack by defining technical requirements, estimating level of effort, scoping projects to meet deadlines, and managing agile processes. The Tech Lead will work closely with product owners, engineering teams, and other stakeholders to deliver projects on time and with high quality. This will require identifying and resolving risks and blockers, reviewing code, and providing architectural guidance to ensure scalable, maintainable solutions. You’ll be expected to take ownership of complex features, mentor engineers, and influence technical direction.
What you'll bring
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep technical proficiency in Java and the Spring Framework.
- Note: A Computer Science degree is a definite plus, but relevant production experience is what we value most.
- Proven track record of shipping production-grade systems utilizing AWS and distributed technologies like Kafka, Aerospike, ScyllaDB, or equivalent heavy-data solutions.
- Experience architecting or working within ultra-high-volume transactional systems handling greater than 100k transactions/second.
- Solid foundation in RDBMS, with strong hands-on experience designing and optimizing MySQL or similar relational databases.
- Strong analytical thinker with a proven ability to debug, optimize, and solve complex logic within highly multi-threaded applications.
- Demonstrated experience coaching, mentoring, and leveling up engineering peers to foster a high-performing team culture.
- Exceptional communication skills with a history of seamlessly partnering with Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders across remote teams and time zones.
- A sharp ability to take vague, complex stakeholder requests and systematically break them down into highly organized, actionable technical tasks.