Application Development Team Lead

Hi! Thanks for checking out the Application Infra Team Lead position.

Who are we?

• Skai helps thousands of the most successful brands in the world reach customers and grow their brands on digital channels. The company offers best-of-breed advertising technology on the most impactful, highest-ROI media channels as well as a suite of data-driven insights, planning, and measurement solutions to complement and maximize the return from our solutions.
• We’re 700 employees strong and growing every day! ~$7 billion in ad spend being managed on the SkaiTM platform every year, driving hundreds of billions in commerce decisions and sales transactions.
• Established in 2006, we are a thriving organization, with a unique, vibrant startup culture with an incredible track record of success and an amazing future in sight!
• We are hybrid for the long term - with a great home/ office work mix, passionate and diverse team members, and a vibrant company culture.

Responsibilities:

• Lead our specialized application infra team, responsible for designing and developing our core application business logic.
• Maintain a 50% hands-on role, actively developing and navigating a complex codebase with many layers of frameworks and infrastructure.
• Educate and push the adoption of internal core application platforms and services inside the Skai development teams/groups.
• Working and coordinating with other teams and groups to ensure a successful development and rollout of platform extensions.
• Participate in making development teams more independent and develop faster.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering with a strong backend background in Java.
• 2+ years of experience as a team leader in an agile methodology (kanban/scrum).
• Strong background in data modeling and relational database design.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing scalable, high-performance backend systems in a SaaS environment.
• Experience in building, evolving, and refactoring code in large codebases used by hundreds of developers.
• Ability to propose projects, pre-empt problems with solutions, define and measure success metrics, and plan project road-maps.
• Advantage - Experience with decomposing and decoupling monolithic applications.
• Advantage - Experience with distributed in-memory databases.
• Advantage - Experience as a Software Architect.