At Star, we connect strategy, insights, design, and engineering into a seamless workflow devised to support our clients every step of the way—no matter how long or complex their journey. We anchor everything we do in clear and compelling endgames, which in turn enable our multidisciplinary teams to create superior solutions and impressive commercial returns for our clients. Star is truly global. That is why we are the first major consulting company that does not have headquarters. Instead, we have many front doors, spanning Silicon Valley, Tokyo, London, Munich, Copenhagen, Kyiv, Wroclaw, Ho Chi Minh City, and other vibrant design, technology, and creative nuclei of the world. Our spirited and growing 1000+ strong Star Crew takes great pride in working side by side with their trailblazing counterparts at some of the world’s most disruptive “unicorn” startups and iconic global brands like Lufthansa, Dolby Laboratories, BMW, Panasonic, Walmart, and Zeiss. Our mission is to make every great person, every great idea, and every great company shine. That’s why we’re called Star. **The Opportunity**: It’s a great opportunity to work in a cross-functional, product-driven team to fuel the AdTech industry. There are multiple interesting challenges along the way, including microservices engagement, managing and maintaining a bunch of integrations with external service providers, and participating in research, discussions and decisions on software architecture. Technology stack: - Java; - Frameworks/libraries: Spring, Hibernate, Flyway, Quartz; - Databases: MySQL, Redis; - AWS Stack: EC2, RDS, S3, SQS, SNS, Kinesis; - Tests: JUnit, Mockito, AssertJ; - Performance testing: Gatling/Scala; - Other: Docker. **The Client**: Our client is a global leader in the advertising space. They specialize in digital marketing services that integrate technology, data, inventory, and human intelligence to reach and manage the most profitable audiences for their customers. We are working with them on a suite of web-based products whose primary functions are improving and optimizing business processes, reducing time spent on daily duties, managing activities and monitoring results. **You**: Qualifications and experience: - 6+ years of Java development experience; - Strong knowledge of Java 8, Spring (Spring Boot, Data, Security, MVC), microservice architectures; - Hands-on experience with RDBMS and ORM (Hibernate); - Experience with RDBMS (Postgres, Oracle or others); - Experience with AWS (EC2, S3, SQS) or other cloud platforms; - Knowledge of Kubernetes is a plus; - Good English and ability to communicate with the client directly. Would be a plus: - Experience of leading and motivating a small team of software engineers; - Passion for various engineering practices and proper process setup; - Experience with Docker. **Responsibilities**: - Take part in the product definition; - Leading the development process; - Define the architecture and do a feasibility assessment; - Estimations for the scope of work; - Coding and code review of your colleges; - Definition and optimization of the optimal development processes; - Collaborate with the team and different client’s stakeholders. **Compensations and Benefits**: We offer a rewarding compensation and benefits package, intellectually and creatively stimulating environment, professional flexibility and unique international travel opportunities. Star is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that equity, diversity and inclusion are key to our ability to provide our clients and crew members with unique business and career outcomes. Your race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability have no effect on our hiring decisions. If you have a special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.