Senior Backend Developer

Essens is an ambitious ad tech SaaS company with a unique technology. Thus we are doing business with major publishing companies like Schibsted and Aller, as well as larger national and international media agencies. We are well funded and positioned for growth in 2018 and 2019. To support the strategy we are expanding in the development and sales departments.

The Opportunity:
Want to be one of the first 15 employees of an ambitious technology company? Here's your chance!
Our journey has just started. A year after launching our initial ad product in Norway we get solid feedback from the market telling us it's time to scale up. Our company is still relatively small, which means that each new member of our development will have a huge impact on the company.

We are excited to venture into new areas of technology to support our strategy. That is why we would like to have You as a member of our full stack product team of nine passionate people; five developers and four testers and product owners.

Our goal is to make one of the most effective and human friendly advertising products in the industry - both for the advertiser and consumer. We know this can be achieved without compromising the privacy of the consumer by contextually coupling ads with relevant newspaper articles at scale.
We'll enter each national market in Europe with our unique technology and data set to demonstrate the benefits of our product and the consumer insight offered which create unique brand advertising opportunities.

Your team's responsibilities and way of work:
- We take pride in developing readable, well-designed and well-tested software.
- We design, develop and test our software using a wide range of programming languages, using different methods and techniques during our development cycles.
- We are responsible for software development related to integration with ad exchanges, publishers and the processing of thousands of ad bid requests and data points per second.
- As well as software development related to consumer insight, ad campaign setup/execution and automation of promoting new advertiser opportunities.
- We process high volume real-time data of ad impressions and account balances using Fluent, Flink and Kinesis.
- We setup and provide second line support for traffic monitoring using Datadog, Airbrake, Kibana and AWS Cloud Watch.
- We will be focusing more on constant roll out and testing of new features using feature flags.

Your responsibilities will be:
- You will work in the full stack product team to create optimal experiences for our customers, agencies and publishers.
- You will utilise a variety of backend technologies to make sure: Our customers ad campaigns match the right articles (Solr). Data points for customer entities such as campaign performance, budget pacing and balance are processed correctly (Java). We have the right data model to support this (SQL).
- You'll take part in decisions related to new development projects and software portfolio life cycle.
- You'll do project scoping and requirement specification with the rest of the team.
- You'll challenge our status quo, drive innovation and apply agile best practices (we know we have a way to go).

Examples of competencies we are looking for:
- You are an experienced Java developer and expert in backend technologies. Knowledge of other languages like Python, Perl or JavaScript is a real plus.
- It is natural for you to work with debugging tools and testing frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito.
- u have experience using cloud computing services such as the AWS environment, particularly S3, EC2, Redshift, EMR and Elastic Search.
- You have general SysAdm and DevOps knowledge.
- You have a master's or bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline (Years with relevant experience can compensate for this).
- You have a valid work permit for EU/Norway.

Nice to have competencies:
- Real-time data processing applications.
- Streams in Solr for data processing and statistical purposes.
- NoSQL data backends (Redis, MongoDB, ElasticSearch).

Compensation and benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working hours.
- Five weeks holiday. Flexibility to spend it.
- Health insurance.
- Possibility for equity.
- Mobile and fixed internet covered.
- Lunch almost for free.
- Great colleagues. Really.
- Centrally located in Oslo
- Oslo - the capital for people who wants to live in the big city but enjoy the great outdoors!
- Practical help to relocate and find a place to stay.

Qualifications:
- Bachelor- eller Mastergrad

Övrigt:
Behjelpelig med å skaffe bolig og dekke reise til intervju.

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