It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of 1 billion. Nearly half of Verizon Media employees are building the code and platforms that help us achieve that. Whether you're looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process 4 trillion data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business-and the world. Want in? As Verizon's media unit, our brands like Yahoo, TechCrunch and more help people stay informed and entertained, communicate and transact, while creating new ways for advertisers and partners to connect. With technologies like XR, AI, machine-learning, and 5G, we're transforming media for tomorrow, too. We're creators and coders, dreamers and doers creating what's next in content, advertising and technology.
A Little About Us:
Yahoo's SSP solution is the global partner of choice for leading advertisers, agencies, publishers and App Developers seeking to maximize the value of their brands. We have strategically combined the strengths of many premium brands including AOL, Yahoo Fantasy, Yahoo.com , Yahoo News, Yahoo Sports, Tech Crunch and many more. Simply put, we offer advertisers and publishers a one-stop shop for global programmatic solutions to help increase yield through a rich and broad set of platforms, formats, and technologies.
A Little About You:
We need a Software Engineer to accelerate building critical features into the Yahoo's SSP in order to retain critical clients; enable sales to bring new clients on quickly and efficiently.
Every time you see an ad on the internet, an auction is run across all of the advertisers that are potentially interested in paying for your attention at that moment in time. The Yahoo's SSP team in Baltimore makes the software that runs those auctions. We run millions of auctions in a second and we make billions of $ for our company. Our software is high scale and high availability.
We have interesting problems and we have fun solving them. Your day to day work would include building next generations big data solutions, reporting, brand safety and fraud detection platforms and supporting a multi-billion-dollar business while working with groundbreaking technologies in both our own Data Centers and the AWS Cloud. We are looking for a talented Java engineer to work on our backend ad serving systems and help us build the features needed to support our customers.
JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Use Java to create the SSP's auction processing systems and RESTful APIs that support our UI.
• Look for ways to optimize the code to ensure the SSP performs within our customer's SLA requirements.
• Analyze business and technical requirements and design solutions that meet those needs.
• Collaborate with programmers both on their team and on other teams
• Collaborate with product managers to develop and clarify requirements
• Troubleshoot production issues related to the team's applications.
• Effectively manages day-to-day tasks in an Agile process to meet scheduled commitments.Write unit tests and specification documents

SKILLS AND EDUCATION:

• Experience in developing in Java and Javascript.
• Experience using source code control systems like Git.
• Knowledge of Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, SQL is an advantage.
• Must have good programming and debugging skills
• Must have an understanding of object oriented programming.
• A working knowledge of application design and development processes and methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Familiar with software design methods and techniques.
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

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US Only: Please be aware that Yahoo requires all employees entering a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events) are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19. This position will require the successful candidate to obtain and show proof of a vaccination to enter a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events). Yahoo is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodation to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated consistent with federal, state, and local law.
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