Activision Blizzard Media, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard is a rapidly growing start-up business unit built to connect brands with our 350M + global player base across Activision, Blizzard and King.

We're hiring a Lead Backend Engineer in our Engineering team, empowering cutting edge mobile advertising technologies to create the next generation of our Monetization Platform.

Your role within Activision Blizzard Media

Partner with Architects, Product Managers and other engineers to build one of the world’s largest mobile game advertising platforms
Evaluate and choose the right technology stack and build the supply side platform to handle hundreds of thousands of advertising requests per second
Migrate the existing platform to Google Cloud
Own the overall goals of uptime, reliability and scalability of the supply side platform
Genuine interest in mentoring junior engineers

Skills to create thrills

7+ years of experience leading the development of highly performing, highly available and highly reliable production services in Java
Expert knowledge in Java, JMeter and performance engineering
Experience with NoSQL systems e.g. BigTable, DynamoDB, HBase
Experience with distributed SQL database e.g. Google Spanner, AWS Aurora
Experience working in a cloud-based environment with Google Cloud Platform or AWS
Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to work in a collaborative team environment
BA/BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge and experience in CI/CD, test automation, Jenkins, Gradle and related technologies

Experience with streaming technologies e.g. Kafka, Kinesis or Flink

Experience with open source technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Google BigQuery