King · 1 month ago
Senior Staff Backend Engineer | Activision Blizzard Media
San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$143K/yr - $265K/yrActivision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the western world. They are seeking a Senior Staff Backend Engineer to join their Ads Engineering team, responsible for developing groundbreaking advertising technologies and creating the next generation of their Publisher Ads Platform.
AndroidDigital EntertainmentMobile
Responsibilities
Design and develop highly scalable, available and reliable Ads & Monetization platform that handles billions of requests per day
Partner with architects, senior engineers and cross team members to build high volume backend systems
Take complete ownership and manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
Work with the product team to understand the business needs and translate them into development/design tasks
Provide technical directions and mentorship to other engineers
Be a role model in engineering best practices and design/coding standards for delivering high quality products
Qualification
Required
Demonstrated ability leading the development of highly performing services in Java
Experience in designing overall architecture and design for large-scale distributed systems
Experience with NoSQL systems e.g., Bigtable, Cassandra, Elastic
Expert knowledge in System Design, Schema & Data Modeling and Performance Analysis
Experience working with Multi-threading, Asynchronous, Streaming/Messaging technologies (e.g. Kafka, RabitMQ)
Great interpersonal skills and a consistent record to work in a collaborative team environment
BA/BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
Experience working in a cloud-based environment with Google Cloud Platform or AWS
Knowledge and experience in CI/CD, test automation, Jenkins, Gradle, and related technologies
Experience with open source technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Google BigQuery
Passionate about usability, maintainability and quality, building for the long term
Preferred
Experience with distributed computing frameworks (Apache Spark, Flink)
Experience with AdTech platforms preferred like Ads Monetization, Serving, Demand Side Platform, etc
Benefits
Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance
Company
King
With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga.
Founded in 2003
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$84M2015-11-02Acquired
2014-03-26IPO
2005-09-01Series A· $43M
Leadership Team
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Gilles Storme
VP of Ad Sale EMEA
Benjamin Pommeraud
General Manager - Strategic Initiatives
Recent News
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