Senior Java Software Developer
Location: GB, , London
Department: Engineering
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Function: Engineering
Company profile: Axonix is a global mobile advertising technology company that's powered by a platform with a 4 year history of leading the market. Using technology acquired from Mobclix, the world’s first RTB-enabled mobile ad exchange, Axonix offers a fully transparent programmatic trading platform that enables publishers to sell their mobile advertising inventory in real-time to brands, agencies and ad networks globally.We serve billions of ads per month across more than 150+ countries, working with our 100+ demand partners globally to achieve industry-leading CPMs, CTRs and fill rates. With built-in fraud detection controls and data-driven targeting options, we help advertisers to secure the optimal ad inventory that will deliver the best campaign results for them.Axonix is headquartered in central London and backed by Telefonica and private equity group, Blackstone.OUR PHILOSOPHY TO HIRINGOur technology serves billions of mobile ads every month, across more than 150 countries. Our company is truly global in scale. We're growing so fast we need to hire the best people out there.People who thrive on fresh challenges. People who want to see their work make an impact, right away. People who demand a lot from themselves and others. We hire someone when we’re sure “There’s no better person for this job, and no better person we’d rather work with.”We know people are our most important asset. If you're exceptional at what you do, we want to hear from you. The next stage in your career could start today.
Description: The software development team is the engine that drives our ambition to build the world’s best mobile advertising platform. To grow the team, Axonix is recruiting additional Backend Software Developers who will be responsible for turning our product vision and roadmap into best-in-class code that delivers an awesome customer experience.Based in London as a member of the Development team, you will play a key role in continuing to develop a platform composed of over 60 AWS EC2 Linux instances that is already serving 100,000,000 requests per day just 6 weeks after we launched, with a plan to reach in excess of 1 billion ad requests per day by the end of 2014.This role requires a person with fully up-to-date knowledge of the latest software coding techniques, tools and languages. We need people who can deliver solutions with an optimal balance between development efforts, deployment costs and time-to-market, whilst ensuring product requirements are met.
Requirements: The ideal candidate must have experience with most of the following technologies:Amazon EC2Java/Spring developmentMySQLHigh performance, high scalability, high availability systemsIt is helpful but not essential if they have experience of Datawarehouse; NoSQL technologies; ETL; Hadoop (Elastic Map Reduce); Apache SolrAgile methodologies - experience in agile development, including sprint planning, sprint review and user stories estimation.Experience with delivering projects to production to tight deadlines.Highly personable, with good communication skills and able to work in a highly collaborative team environmentProven flexibility and willingness to ‘roll sleeves up’ as required in the fast-paced and rapidly evolving environment of a small start upGood analytical, problem-solving and documentation skillsMust have full authorisatin to work in the UKLanguages – Fluency in English essential; Spanish an advantage but not essential
Benefits: Competitive salary according to experienceAnnual bonus schemeGenerous flexible benefits packageEquity package
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