Who We AreAt adMarketplace, our mission is to deliver the most engaging consumer search experiences while empowering advertisers to measure media performance accurately. Today, millions of people worldwide engage with our exclusive, transparent media placements across the internet’s leading browsers, shopping apps, and review sites.Our mantra at adMarketplace is to let our winners run. From your very first day at AMP, you’ll have the opportunity to start making a valuable contribution to our company. We’ve built our award-winning culture around five core values (known as our 5C’s): Curiosity, Collaboration, Creative Conflict, Commitment, and Competitiveness. With these guiding values, adMarketplace seeks to empower each and every employee to succeed, continue learning, and do their best work.The RoleWe seek self-driven and talented engineers to design, develop, and operate high-volume, low-latency systems powering e-commerce adtech for adMarketplace. The ideal candidate will have experience working on large-scale consumer-facing products. You live and breathe APIs, distributed systems, and high availability architecture. You will be involved in the entire software development lifecycle, from defining requirements to designing, coding, testing, and supporting the product in production. You will have a clear career progression path and numerous opportunities for both personal and professional growth in an intellectually stimulating and dynamic work environment.ResponsibilitiesDesign, develop, and maintain highly available, scalable and distributed backend components for external client-facing APIs.Collaborate closely with product teams, data engineers and other teams internal and external teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.Lead technical execution and architectural decisions of various projects, ensuring alignment with our strategic goals.Mentor junior engineers, providing guidance and oversight to ensure high-quality software development practices.Partner with QA, DevOps, and other engineering teams for seamless integration, testing, and deployment of system components.Continuously improve the system by researching and implementing the latest technologies and best practices. Basic QualificationsB.S. in Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline.Minimum of 5 years of strong hands-on experience in backend development in Java.Proven experience in developing and maintaining low latency, high-volume, scalable applications and systems.Experience with Apache KafkaFamiliarity with both relational and non-relational databases.Proficiency in applying SOLID design principles and system design across multiple teams.Strong initiative, ability to drive projects independently, and excellent problem-solving skills.Exceptional documentation, communication, and troubleshooting abilities.Preferred QualificationsExperience with Spring, Spring Boot or other dependency injection framework.Databricks experience is a big plusPython experience is a big plusFamiliarity with Vector Search, Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, Redis, LLM agents, and other data processing and caching tools.Experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, AWS, and microservices architecture.Reactive programming experienceExperience with profiling and tuning JVM based applications.Agile software development experience.Prior experience in the ad tech or e-commerce industry.*Compensation Range: $170,000 - $220,000 #LI-OnsiteJoin UsadMarketplace has been named as one of the best places to work in New York City by Built In and Crain’s- the latter of which have recognized us the past three years straight! AMP is currently experiencing triple digit growth, and it’s never been a better time to join our team!We offer a robust continuing education program, management training, regular company-wide lunch and learns, and well-defined career paths to ensure all our employees have an opportunity to grow. At adMarketplace, we play to win, but we learn from our setbacks. Our commitment to a collaborative environment means no one succeeds alone, and no one fails alone either. We know you’ve come to expect comprehensive healthcare, wellness programs, paid time off, commuter benefits, and 401k matching from any company, so it’s a good thing we offer all of that and so much more. adMarketplace offers a dog friendly office, Summer Fridays, catered lunches, a fully stocked kitchen, ZogSports teams, happy hours and corporate retreats to encourage a strong work/life balance. Must be located or willing to relocate to New York City Metropolitan Area*This range represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of adMarketplace in the New York office. Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience; training; associated responsibilities; and other business and organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.