Software Engineer - DSP

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

Yahoo

Demand Java Software Engineer

Job Description

Position: Java Software Engineer

Department: Demand Engineering Platforms

Location: Dublin, Ireland

A Little About The Role

The Demand Engineering group is responsible for providing advertising platform solutions for clients around the world. Our team designs and supports many of the systems, tools, and processes that allow for the execution of online advertising campaigns to meet the needs of our clients.

This role will be focused on the development and maintenance of a range of these platforms. The role will also require working on processes, simplifying systems, and reducing complexity of user interfaces across our platform in order to deliver best in class customer experiences. 

A Lot About You

You are a talented back end engineer who wants to work in a high visibility role and directly impact the productivity of all of our demand engineering platforms. You like to use your engineering skills to produce practical solutions to solve pressing business problems which give our customers a competitive advantage and deliver value to both our customers and the company.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a software engineer you will be working with product managers and other software engineers in agile teams to create our next-generation API and AdServing solutions by implementing business-critical features and setting standards that will help define the future products.

You will help us solving interesting challenges such as

• Performance optimisation

• Ensure system responsiveness, robustness and high availability

• Ensure independent deployment of services and better CI/CD

• Directly impact our generated revenue by implementing critical features

• Improve our CI/CD pipeline to ensure constant production delivery of high-quality features

• Improve our automated tests suite in terms of speed and accuracy

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Bachelor’s degree

• 4+ years Experience with Java 

• Experience with Java frameworks, eg. Spring

• Experience with Cloud Technologies (AWS or Kubernetes desirable)

• Deep understanding of Java and other supporting back-end technologies

• Experience with unit and integration testing and writing clean code

• Understanding of REST APIs, OOP, and related best practices

• Knowledge of architecture and design patterns and anti-patterns

• Good knowledge of SQL or NOSQL databases techniques

• The ability to deliver results in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment that requires ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously without compromising quality

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work independently as well as in a team environment

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements. 

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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