Staff Software Engineer - Remote Eligible

Staff Software Engineer

Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a leading global media measurement and optimization platform that delivers the industry's most actionable data to drive superior results for the world's largest advertisers, publishers, and media platforms. IAS's software provides comprehensive and enriched data that ensures ads are seen by real people in safe and suitable environments, while improving return on ad spend for advertisers and yield for publishers. Our mission is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership and expertise to help build ad verification, analytics, and anti-ad fraud solutions that deliver on the team's mission of helping advertisers understand the quality of the ad opportunities they're acquiring. Our team provides the tools that advertisers need to maximize their ROI by displaying the recommended targets for their investments.

The ideal candidate has a track record of architecting and building end-to-end software solutions, enjoys working in a collaborative and agile environment, and brings innovative solutions to complex problems with a desire to improve the status quo. Will have the opportunity to help build the team from the ground up and shape the office culture.

What you'll get to do:

• Architect, design, build and integrate our core ad analytics and anti ad fraud products end to end
• Design, build, and maintain the following:
• Spring Java-based GRPC applications that power IAS's Signal platform
• Work with kubernetes and jenkins deployment systems
• AWS
• Work with data in Databricks and SQL
• Scale applications and architectures to handle billions of transactions and records efficiently and reliably
• Lead the entire software lifecycle — from design and hands-on coding to testing, deployment, and observability
• Collaborate closely with product and data teams to embed new capabilities and signal intelligence into our applications
• Understand how we work with data and find ways to support product needs and expand our product value
• Manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, exciting, collaborative environment

You should apply if you have most of this:

• BS in Computer Science, or related STEM degree
• 7+ years of hands-on full-stack programming experience using Java, Scala / python, and good experience with testing frameworks like Jbehave, spock, and Junit.
• 3+ years of experience working with big-data stack, including (but not limited to) spark / flink/ hadoop, kafka, redis / dynamodb
• Expert knowledge of Java and (collections, multi-threading, JVM memory model, etc.)
• Experience with AWS tech stack, including but not limited to EMR, Athena, EKS, MSK
• Strong grasp of designing for performance, scalability, reliability, and observability
• Experience building API backend services and integrating with distributed systems
• Experience partnering with Product and other high level stakeholders across the company to meet business deliverables
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Bonus points:

• Working with UI systems like React and GRPC
• Experience with managing, leading and/or mentoring a development team
• Experience with big data and data pipelines
• Familiarity with Databricks
• Experience in AdTech

IAS Pay Transparency:

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location, and any additional locations are listed below. Our pay ranges are based on the work location. As part of IAS compensation package, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes paid time off, health insurance (medical, dental, vision) as well as PPO, HSA and FSA options and 401k with employer matching contributions. All full-time employee roles include competitive compensation and are eligible for an annual bonus and/or other incentive plans. Each candidate's compensation package is based on multiple factors, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need.

Primary Location: US - Chicago, IL

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $119,000.00 - $204,000.00 Annual

Additional Locations: US - New York, NY, US - Remote, TX

Additional Locations Pay Range: 126,000.00 - 216,000.00 USD Annual

About Integral Ad Science:

Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a leading global media measurement and optimization platform that delivers the industry's most actionable data to drive superior results for the world's largest advertisers, publishers, and media platforms. IAS's software provides comprehensive and enriched data that ensures ads are seen by real people in safe and suitable environments, while improving return on ad spend for advertisers and yield for publishers. Our mission is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

IAS is an equal opportunity employer, committed to our diversity and inclusiveness. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability or age. We strongly encourage women, people of color, members of the LGBTQIA community, people with disabilities and veterans to apply.

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Attention agency/3rd party recruiters:

IAS does not accept any unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles. If you are interested in becoming an IAS recruiting partner, please send an email introducing your company to recruitingagencies@integralads.com. We will get back to you if there's interest in a partnership.