Senior Software Development Enginee...

We are seeking a talented Senior Software Development Engineer specializing in Java to build and scale critical backend systems. Your role will involve architecting a state-of-the-art compositor engine and evolving a server-driven layout system to create rich, adaptive pages across all devices, ensuring millions of users experience fast, seamless, and always-on content. You will focus on scaling our platform infrastructure to support peak concurrency, multi-region delivery, and freshness guarantees. This includes building the orchestration layer between downstream services and client applications for faster experimentation and seamless rollouts. You will develop the Compositor Engine responsible for fetching, ranking content blocks (widgets/cards), merging metadata, and serving contextualized page definitions in milliseconds. Collaboration with Product, Data Science, and Frontend teams will be key for use cases like personalized feeds and dynamic page composition. You will also work on improving latency, throughput, and observability across server-driven UI surfaces like the Homepage, Watch pages, and Detail views. Contributing to platform primitives such as layout DSLs, contract validation, and preview tooling is expected. Participation in design discussions, code reviews, and on-call rotations to maintain high service reliability is also part of the role. Mentoring junior engineers on functional attributes and domain knowledge is encouraged.

Key Responsibilities

• Own scale-critical paths, ensuring the system can handle peak concurrency, multi-region delivery, and freshness guarantees.
• Build the infrastructure and capabilities that serve as the orchestration layer between downstream services and client apps, enabling faster experimentation and seamless rollouts for every device and platform.
• Develop the Compositor Engine that fetches and ranks content blocks (widgets/cards), merges metadata, and serves highly contextualized page definitions to clients in milliseconds.
• Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Frontend teams on use cases like personalized feeds, layouts, and dynamic page composition.
• Improve latency, throughput, and observability across all surfaces where UI is driven from the server, including Homepage, Watch pages, and Detail views.
• Contribute to platform primitives used by all other teams, including layout DSLs, contract validation, fallback mechanisms, and preview tooling.
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and on-call rotations, maintaining high service reliability even during peak traffic.
• Continuously evaluate relevant technologies and influence architecture and design discussions.
• Guide and mentor junior engineers on functional attributes and domain knowledge.

Requirements

• Strong coding skills in Java.
• Experience designing and building distributed systems at scale.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred, AWS Mediaservices experience is a plus) and messaging systems (e.g., Kafka).
• Proven ability to work autonomously in fast-paced environments, manage priorities, and deliver high-impact results.
• Interest in advertising technologies and optimizing systems for user and business outcomes.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field with 2-4 years of experience in backend development.

Benefits

• Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Opportunities to meet and learn from experts in design, engineering, and product.
• Continuous Learning: Work with a world-class team, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.