Staff Software Engineer

Integral Ad Science•Chicago, IL

3d•Remote

About The Position

Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a leading global media measurement and optimization platform that delivers the industry’s most actionable data to drive superior results for the world’s largest advertisers, publishers, and media platforms. IAS’s software provides comprehensive and enriched data that ensures ads are seen by real people in safe and suitable environments, while improving return on ad spend for advertisers and yield for publishers. Our mission is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality. For more information, visit integralads.com. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership and expertise to help build ad verification, analytics, and anti-ad fraud solutions that deliver on the team’s mission of helping advertisers understand the quality of the ad opportunities they’re acquiring. Our team provides the tools that advertisers need to maximize their ROI by displaying the recommended targets for their investments. The ideal candidate has a track record of architecting and building end-to-end software solutions, enjoys working in a collaborative and agile environment, and brings innovative solutions to complex problems with a desire to improve the status quo. Will have the opportunity to help build the team from the ground up and shape the office culture.

Requirements

BS in Computer Science, or related STEM degree
7+ years of hands-on full-stack programming experience using Java, Scala / python, and good experience with testing frameworks like Jbehave, spock, and Junit.
3+ years of experience working with big-data stack, including (but not limited to) spark / flink/ hadoop, kafka, redis / dynamodb
Expert knowledge of Java and (collections, multi-threading, JVM memory model, etc.)
Experience with AWS tech stack, including but not limited to EMR, Athena, EKS, MSK
Strong grasp of designing for performance, scalability, reliability, and observability
Experience building API backend services and integrating with distributed systems
Experience partnering with Product and other high level stakeholders across the company to meet business deliverables
Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Nice To Haves

Working with UI systems like React and GRPC
Experience with managing, leading and/or mentoring a development team
Experience with big data and data pipelines
Familiarity with Databricks
Experience in AdTech

Responsibilities

Architect, design, build and integrate our core ad analytics and anti ad fraud products end to end
Design, build, and maintain the following: Spring Java-based GRPC applications that power IAS’s Signal platform Work with kubernetes and jenkins deployment systems AWS Work with data in Databricks and SQL
Scale applications and architectures to handle billions of transactions and records efficiently and reliably
Lead the entire software lifecycle — from design and hands-on coding to testing, deployment, and observability
Collaborate closely with product and data teams to embed new capabilities and signal intelligence into our applications
Understand how we work with data and find ways to support product needs and expand our product value
Manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, exciting, collaborative environment