Advertising - Merchandising Platform Development Group is looking for a Sr. Software Engineer


Primary Job Responsibilities
We are seeking a highly motivated engineer for a Senior Software Engineering position responsible for architecture, product design, and development in the Advertising - Merchandising Platform development team. This position requires the candidate to work closely with product and senior management, other development teams, operations and the quality assurance team. The candidate is expected to be a self-starter and team player, a strong driver for results and continuous improvement. Responsibilities include development and support for worldwide projects throughout all phases of the development cycle.

Responsibilites include:
- Work with product owners to define, design and implement complex, multi-tiered distributed software applications.
- Expected to deliver resilient, robust and durable designs.
- Candidate should have solid hands-on skills and experience in designing / developing 24x7 operation monitoring and diagnosis software for highly distributed and high traffic ad servers.
- Work with other engineers, managers, product management, QA, and Operations teams to develop innovative solutions that meet market needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules, and adherence to development goals and principles.
- Development experience in software fault tolerance, fault detection and recovery techniques is a must. Candidate should be able to work on data collection, log analysis, systems monitoring and dashboard implementation.
- Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and rollout system changes.
- Lead product and technology initiatives, recommend improvements, mentor and guide junior team members.
- Identify project risks and make recommendations to reduce.
- Share release management duties on feature rollouts, share on-call responsibilities
- Develop industry and product technical expertise.
- Automate manual engineering processes.
- Find and help fix stability/scalability issues in a very time critical environment


Job Requirements
- 5+ years experience in requirements analysis, design, coding and unit testing of scalable, distributed, multi-tiered, fault-tolerant applications in Windows and UNIX environments
- 5+ years object-oriented design methodology and application development in Java and/or C++ and J2EE, including servlets, JSP, JDBC.
- Experience with SQL Server/Oracle, including logical database design, SQL, stored procedures.
- Experience with XML Schema design (DOM and Sax), XSLT.
- Experience in developing and supporting a product or web-site over multiple release lifecycles is a plus
- Good understanding of computer science fundamentals like data structures and algorithms.
- Good problem solving skills.
- Strong communication, problem analysis/resolution skills
- Strong customer/business orientation
- Proven results oriented person with a delivery focus.
- Good time management and ability to work on concurrent assignments with different priorities

Education
Bachelors Degree Required

Job ID: 55666BR
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