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Virtual Minds is a 100% subsidiary of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE and stands for premium Adtech made in Europe for over 20 years. Whether SSP, DSP, DMP or adserving - as a first mover, we and our 200 employees always have the right solution for successful operations within the digital advertising market. 

For the Adserver Development Team we are looking for an experienced Software Engineer who loves to innovate within the tradeoff space between performance and product needs and who cherishes the challenge of refactoring legacy code. While other may frolic in the fields of front end, our ideal candidate ambles in the alleys of algorithms and would enjoy maintaining a self-healing distributed system processing billions of requests every day with low latency and nearly zero downtime.

What you can expect in this role

• Help your team solve contemporary challenges in the digital advertising space, all the way from design to deployment and incremental improvement. 

• Implement your solutions in a context where O(n) feels like an eternity and protect them with unit, functional, and E2E tests. 

• Refactor legacy code to become both more modular and domain-driven.

• To offer third-level support to customers and first-level support to your teammates, like helping them to overcome blockers.

Your essential experience and education

• Mastery of C++17 along with several years of professional experience in server-side software engineering. 

• Good first experience with containerization (docker) and service orchestration (K8s).

• A solid understanding of data structures and algorithms, concurrency, and time/space complexity.

• Exposure to relational and NoSQL databases along with experience with the Kafka ecosystem and IDLs like Thrift or gRPC is preferred.

• Ability to drive topics independently, think critically, code cleanly, and articulate oneself.

What's in it for you?

• Leading full tech stack: We offer the opportunity to cooperate with the leading players in the industry in a team of top experts and to actively shape one of the most technologically exciting tech areas. You’ll work in a start-up atmosphere and still enjoy all the benefits of a large corporation
• Attractive working environment: You decide: Remote, hybrid or on-site. Our modern working models, flexible working hours and 30 days of vacation contribute to a good work-life balance
• Room for Growth: Everyone can get involved and contribute to advancing topics. We work at eye level, in agile dynamics and flat hierarchies. We offer a wide range of internal and external training opportunities for your personal and professional development
• Many other benefits: Profit from additional benefits such as employee discounts, bicycle leasing (JobRad), Hansefit or Urban Sports Club and subsidised company pension schemes

Closure

Please send your application including your salary expectations and availability via our careers page. For further information, please contact us on +49761/88147-0.  

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