You will work in tight coordination with product and business owners, in a collaborative Agile environment,
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Transform POC data-science processes, ETLs, and queries into scalable, performant high-demand services
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Integrate with a wide variety of third-party APIs and data sources to consume, process, and deliver targeting and tracking data across our network
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Develop and maintain robust and performant software while working in a team and taking ownership of your individual contributions
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Promote performance best practices and technical decisions that ensure our systems are capable of scaling as the business grows
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Participate in code reviews and help ensure that code quality stays high.
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Contribute to the identification and prioritization of technical debt.
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Participate in developer hiring process
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Keep up with new technologies and approaches to solve problems and improve existing systems while sharing and advocating for technologies that are relevant to tasks at hand
About Your Qualifications:
You have a love for technology and problem solving, and a strong desire to deliver quality software as quickly as possible; the ideal candidate also has experience in the online advertising space.
You have:
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4+ years in a backend web development position
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Knowledge of modern Java and concurrency mechanisms; the ideal candidate also has experience with Python.
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Familiarity with the online advertising ecosystem, ideally touching DSP, SSP or DMP platforms and technologies. The ideal candidate has been directly involved in building or implementing ad-tech solutions in the past.
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Strong knowledge of REST and/or GraphQL architectures, distributed caching, and application performance tuning
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Experience with BigQuery and other big-data technologies preferred
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Insight into system design and architecture fundamentals for both applications and data
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Experienced with Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban
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Understanding of SDLCs and CI/CD as well as a test driven mindset
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related technical field or foreign equivalent
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What We Do
Dotdash Meredith's vibrant brands help over 200 million users each month find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. Dotdash is among the largest and fastest growing publishers online, and has won over 50 awards in the last year alone, including Digiday's 2020 Publisher of the Year. Dotdash Meredith brands include Verywell, Investopedia, The Balance, The Spruce, Simply Recipes, Serious Eats, Byrdie, Brides, People, Food & Wine, Shape, Entertainment Weekly, Travel & Leisure, Better Homes and Gardens, Southern Living, Health, InStyle, Parents, EatingWell, Magnolia Journal, MyDomaine, Lifewire, TripSavvy, Liquor.com, and TreeHugger.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Our employees work 3 days in office across our NYC, Des Moines, Birmingham, Seattle, LA, and Chicago locations. A couple of our orgs have remote teams (please refer to job descriptions). We are accommodating towards various exemptions and situations.
