Key Skills: Spring Boot, AWS, Java, React, Node, Typescript, Express JS, Next.js
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Establish best practices for ad serving engineering, focusing on system reliability, performance metrics, quality assurance, and operational readiness.
- Provide principal-level technical leadership across complex initiatives, including request pathways, decision engines, forecasting, and delivery mechanics.
- Partner with Product and Architecture to define feature feasibility, risk mitigation, and long-term service maintainability.
- Drive cost-efficiency, observability improvements, and architectural simplicity while preventing technical debt in a strict-SLO environment.
- Lead org-wide alignment by defining transparent ownership models, SLAs, and integration patterns across adjacent domains.
Skills Required:
- 12+ years of relevant experience (or 10+ years with a Master's, or 8+ years with a PhD)
- Node.js and modern JavaScript backend development (Node, microservices, API/service development)
- AWS cloud engineering experience for scalable, reliable distributed systems
- Java and Spring Boot for building and operating backend services
- React-based frontend experience for end-to-end product delivery and integration
Good to Have:
- Express.js, TypeScript, and Next.js experience
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, or equivalent experience