What you'll do:

• Own a mission critical codebase that's at the heart of TripleLift's value proposition
• Write maintainable and well tested code that will be executed billions of times a day and needs to respond in less than 100ms
• Manage and actively monitor the health of our exchange which runs globally across multiple AWS regions and data centers
• Research and implement cutting edge technologies that improve the performance of our exchange
• Design systems for scale that can handle an order of magnitude growth in traffic
• Mentor and coach others on the engineer team around Java and distributed systems best practices.

What makes you a great fit:

• Experience in building out high performance APIs and services leveraging Java, experience with Netty and event-driven, non blocking applications is a bonus;
• Experience working on large scale systems and network heavy systems capable of handling billions of HTTP requests a day;
• Familiarity with in-memory key value stores such as Memcache, Redis or Aerospike
• Comfortable working with queues or other messaging systems such as RabbitMQ or Apache Kafka
• Comfortable taking ownership of projects and showcasing key accomplishments;
• Strives for continued learning opportunities to build upon craft;
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail;
• Ability to work quickly and independently with minimal oversight;
• Ability to accept feedback and constructive critique positively;
• Solid understanding of different design patterns and their associated tradeoffs;
• Extremely strong and demonstrable work ethic.
• Java 8 & Netty to power our real time bidding ad exchange & large scale API
• Apache ZooKeeper & Apache Kafka to power our message bus
• Memcached & Aerospike as our high speed datastores
• Amazon Web Services, Terraform, & Ansible to manage our deployment and infrastructure