Senior Product Software Engineer II

As a Senior Product Software Engineer II, you will collaborate with cross-functional partners and engineering teams on the design and implementation of innovative products and features, contributing to the evolution of user-centric advertising at scale. You will exercise technical ownership, provide peer mentoring, and ensure systems are robust, observable, and future-ready.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and support scalable distributed systems.
• Collaborate with product and engineering peers to deliver features that enhance user-centric advertising.
• Translate user stories into actionable engineering tasks with ownership from development through deployment.
• Mentor and support teammates through code reviews, documentation, and informal guidance.
• Improve system observability by implementing metrics, monitoring, and alerting solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotations as part of operational excellence.
• Champion best practices in code quality, automated testing, and agile workflows.
• Use automated tools, including AI, while adhering to company policy.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Proficiency with Java and related frameworks such as Spring Boot and ORMs.
• Strong background in relational databases such as MySQL and Postgres, including schema and query design.
• Experience working with RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Strong foundation in computer science principles, including data structures and algorithms.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Understanding of microservice encapsulation and loose coupling, and why they are important.
• Understanding of how to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health and manage risk.
• Pragmatic approach to solving engineering challenges at scale.
• Passion for building and owning mission-critical systems.
• Growth mindset, with a willingness to mentor and learn in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Commitment to effective communication and collaboration across teams and systems.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Have:

• Experience in ad tech.
• Experience with programmatic advertising or real-time bidding platforms.
• Experience with Spring Boot and related Spring projects.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Experience with modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with data streaming mechanisms such as Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, and/or SNS/SQS.