Java Engineer

Time zone

(GMT-5 ) New York.

Why we are recommending

• The PulsePoint platform is powered by terabytes of impression-level data.
• Ability to work with modern technologies.

Responsibilities

Some major projects the Exchange team is currently working on: continuing to scale core exchange platform, honing the intelligence of optimization, cutting feedback time for business intelligence, and aggressive automation. Currently, the PulsePoint Exchange:

• Handles hundreds of thousands of transactions per second, billions of times each month.
• Evaluates, selects, and optimizes ad-serving based on advanced statistics and machine-learning.
• Returns responses collected from dozens of parties in milliseconds
• Constantly evolves to meet market demands that change in days and weeks, not months/years.
• Factors thousands of data-points in every serving decision.

Requirements

• Independence and strong ownership of business problems and their technical solutions.
• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking.
• Strong Communication and inter-personal skills.
• Mastery of algorithms, data structures and performance.
• Experience in performance optimization (CPU, Memory, IO) and high-scale (>500 req/sec).
• Experience with open-source projects and tools (e.g. apache projects, maven, Spring, tomcat/glassfish).
• Experience with Agile, tight interaction with business and operations (DevOps).
• Experience with automated testing (TDD, Mocking, Unit/Functional/Integration).
• Expert Knowledge of Internet technologies/and protocols.
• Expert knowledge of the Java language, platform, ecosystem and underlying concepts and constructs.
• Knowledge of common design patterns (IoC, GoF – not J2EE Pattern Library).
• B.S. in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering (or professional experience).

Company offers

• Remote work, full time.
• US holiday schedule.
• 21 days of vacation.
• Flexible schedule: One meeting at 8-9 am Moscow time per week, other days are up to you. An hour for lunch. (If you can or want to work later — great. If you want earlier — an hour shift can be discussed.)

Hiring process

• (rus / eng) 20-30 min call with a recruiter, talk about experience and check english.
• (eng) 60 min screening.
• (eng) 180 min interview with sections.
• (eng) Sometimes the CEO or CTO talks before the offer.

Useful links

• About the company: link.