Android Developer

About Streamlyn

Streamlyn is a regional leader in adtech, specializing in enhancing monetization for Publishers through innovative and compelling ad products. Our ad tech engagement solutions suite empowers Publishers to elevate their business and monetize their content effectively. With a vast network of premium publisher partners across Asia, Streamlyn reaches over 100 million consumers monthly.

Job Overview

As the Tech Lead, you will play a critical role in defining the future of our advanced ad tech platform. This position requires full technical ownership of a high-impact project, where you’ll architect and implement a scalable, high-performance system while guiding a dedicated team of developers to advance our product roadmap.

In this role, you’ll balance strategic technical oversight with hands-on involvement. You will combine strategic technical leadership with hands-on involvement to oversee the platform’s scalability, reliability, and technical evolution. Success will depend on a combination of ad tech expertise, strategic vision, and strong leadership as you drive innovation and foster a high-performance engineering culture.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Independent Project Leadership: Lead a dedicated project stream within our ad tech platform, from initial architecture and design through to delivery. Take full accountability for your project’s technical vision, resource planning, and execution, ensuring it meets performance and scalability requirements.
• Strategic Technical Ownership: Define and implement a technical roadmap that aligns with Streamlyn’s goals, focusing on scalability, resilience, and innovation. Ensure project components are optimized for real-time bidding, ad serving, and data processing requirements unique to ad tech.
• Performance & Scalability: Architect a platform capable of processing billions of requests daily with minimal latency. Utilize advanced load balancing, caching, and database technologies to achieve optimal performance and reliability.
• Team Building & Mentorship: Lead a specialized team of developers, fostering an environment of technical excellence and innovation. Set high standards for code quality, maintainability, and performance while mentoring team members and encouraging growth.
• Product Innovation & Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with product, operations, and sales teams to ensure the products and platform meet high standards and unique demands. Drive the development of cutting-edge features like custom ad units and contextual targeting to keep Streamlyn competitive.
• Ad Tech Expertise: Apply a deep understanding of ad tech—DSPs, SSPs, oRTB protocols, and header bidding frameworks—to ensure seamless integration and adherence to industry best practices.
• Team and Process Development: Drive agile methodologies and efficient development processes within your team to support responsive and high-quality delivery. Implement continuous improvement practices that optimize team productivity and platform reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience: 5+ years in software development with hands-on ad tech experience, ideally in building ad servers, header bidding solutions, oRTB (Open Real-Time Bidding) integrations, and data pipelines.
• Technical Proficiency -
• Languages: Advanced knowledge in Java and Python.
• Databases: Strong experience with MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Aerospike, and familiarity with other NoSQL technologies.
• Data Pipeline: Proven experience designing and implementing data pipelines for handling large-scale ad data in real-time, including ingestion, processing, and transformation.
• Infrastructure and Cloud: Proficiency with AWS Cloud services, including EMR, EKS, and Docker Containers. Experience with Apache Spark, Kafka, and MKS.
• Ad Tech Ecosystem Knowledge: Strong understanding of the ad tech landscape, including DSPs, SSPs, header bidding, programmatic advertising, and RTB protocols.
• Architectural Expertise: Advanced skills in designing distributed, microservices-based architectures and developing APIs for high-performance, low-latency applications. Advanced knowledge in load balancing, caching, and database technologies to enhance performance and scalability.
• System Monitoring & Optimization: Hands-on experience with monitoring and optimization tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar for system reliability.
• Data Engineering: Experience with ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, data warehousing, and building data flows for analytical and reporting purposes.
• Agile and Project Management: Experience with Agile methodologies and the ability to prioritize and manage complex projects.
• Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead a team, with experience in mentorship, team building, and technical coaching. Comfortable taking ownership and accountable for team deliverables.
• Communication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical issues and facilitate cross-functional team discussions.

About the Role 

Hey there! Are you a mastermind looking for your next big challenge? If so, we want you to join our team as our VP of Engineering! We're looking for someone who's driven, experienced, and ready to lead the charge for our tech products and solutions. As the VP, you will manage a team of developers, identify new technologies and implement them to drive business results. 

But it's not all about tech - you'll also be working closely with our core team to make sure we're meeting the needs of the market. Basically, you'll be a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to our tech and make sure we're always ahead of the game. So, if you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a real impact, hit us up! 

We can't wait to see what you bring to the table. 

What You'll Do 

• Lead the development team and ensure projects are completed smoothly and on  schedule 

• Stay ahead of the game by finding and using new technologies to boost the business 

• Work hand in hand with the core team to figure out their needs and keep our products on point with the market trends 

• Keep our products high-quality, scalable, and secure 

Develop and maintain a detailed project plan to track progress and ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget 

• Brainstorm and plan the company's tech strategy with the CTO and other important leaders 

• Keep up to date with the latest tech trends and find new growth opportunities 

• Give the development team technical guidance and be a mentor to them 

What You'll Bring 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field 

• A 8+ years of experience leading software development teams, with a track record of delivering complex products 

• Technical know-how and experience with the latest software development tech 

• Proven experience in identifying and implementing new technologies to drive business  results 

• Experience handling the challenges and taking advantage of the opportunities that come with working in a startup environment 

• Ace leadership, communication, and teamwork skills 

• Self-starter with loads of drive and a desire to make things happen 

What we would also love to see 

• Understand the mobile development landscape especially Android and iOS 

• Hands-On experience with API based development 

Software Engineer for Java

• Understanding of object-oriented programming and design patterns
• Strong with Java programming and Java Servlets.
• Proficient in API design and development using RESTful services (JSON, XML etc)
• Source code management using GIT
• Knowledge in Mongo DB and SQL or any equivalent No-SQL and Relational databases. 
• Experience working with Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery & HTML would be preferred.
• Experience in Node JS would be an added advantage. 

JD:

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.

Responsibilities:

• You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
• You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
• You recognise and use design patterns to solve business problems.
• You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.

Requirements:

• You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code.
• You recognise and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
• You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
• Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
• Excellent programming skills in any object oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS/ATTRIBUTES:

• Excellent knowledge of Android
• Appreciation for the limitations of handset development
• Attention to detail and subtleties of UI design and implementation
• Understanding of design patterns
• Ability to design for scalability and resilience
• Strong application process flow and problem solving techniques.
• Strong focus on refactoring and code quality
• Understanding of software configuration management and release management
• High levels of software engineering literacy and communication skills
• Friendly and professional manner
• Minimum 3 - 5 years java development
• Third Level Qualifications in computing, mathematics or science

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Experience of working in an agile environment
• Product development and lifecycle experience
• Experience of unit testing
• Scripting (JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Shell, etc.)
• Knowledge of build systems such as Maven and Gradle