Were looking for a brilliant technologist with a strong systematic view along with hands-on capabilities. On one hand - a technological leader that can envision the technological direction for the whole platform, and communicate clearly the way to get there. And on the other hand - a practical and pragmatic person that can provide day-to-day solutions and decisions that will affect the technological tone of the platform.
Your Opportunity:
Make ideas become a reality leveraging your versatile skills and programming abilities, and drive the architecture of a platform that handles $130M+ budget.
Train, mentor and work closely with the developers building an exceptionally strong development team.
Lead the technological strategy for a team of technological aces, leveraging cutting edge technologies React, NodeJS, micro services, Docker, AWS, ML and more.
Scout for, evaluate (hands-on), select and adopt technologies when it can save time to market and development effort.
Continuously learn and share learning with the team.
Join an ever-changing company and industry that continues to innovate and evolve.
Ensure that the system as a whole is robust, responsive, resilient, scalable and simple to maintain.
Requirements:
Passion for building high-scale systems that handle high volumes in a robust and efficient way.
Conveying the passion to the development teams influence without authority.
Work as liaison between the product org and R&D groups to translate. business requirements to solution architecture adopted by the developers.
Design flexible and cost effective solutions at scale.
Long experience in programming with ability to jump into code whenever needed for performing POCs, embedding new technologies, and performing design reviews, pair programming and code reviews.
Ability to dive quickly into complex systems, understand the big picture and the business as well as the technical details.
Proven experience in finding and adopting existing solutions (open source and others), from doing a POC all the way to replacing existing production systems with minimum downtime.
Familiarity with big data and machine learning.
Strong communication and presentation skills, training and mentoring abilities.
Passion to work as part of a team, collaboratively, including with international subsidiaries.
If you read so far, you probably have the following:
B.Sc./M.Sc. in Computer Science or similar field from a leading university
10+ years of experience working with data technologies (Relational , NoSQL, Haddop/Spark, streaming).
4+ years of experience in OOD/OOP.
3+ years of experience in web development: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, ReactJS / Angular / Knockout, NodeJS.
4+ years of experience in architecting a full scale platform (Web development, backend, databases, interfaces, batch, real time).
3+ years experience in working in SCRUM environment.
Passion for and experience with automated testing (TDD/unit testing, integration testing, UI testing).
Experience in AWS.
Experience in one or more of the following markets an advantage: Ad Tech / Algo Trading / Financial systems .