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Engineering15 days agoHybrid

Taboola

Senior Backend Engineer

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Key details

Salary

Not specified

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority

Senior

Years experience

5-10

Location

Tel Aviv, Israel

Full job description

Senior Backend Engineer role focused on building and optimizing core infrastructure for managing RTB requests at scale. Requires 5+ years experience in Java or equivalent OOP language (Java 8+Spring preferred), understanding of production web system architecture, experience with SQL and NoSQL, and a BSc in computer science or equivalent. Responsibilities include designing, building, shipping, measuring, and maintaining frontend and backend services handling over 40TB of data daily and hundreds of thousands of requests per second. Bonus skills include experience with large scale distributed systems, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, web systems (API/REST/NGINX), Big Data tools, and knowledge of algorithms, data-mining, and machine learning. Hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office. Location: Tel Aviv, Israel.

What you'll do

  • Develop one of the largest real time big data operations in the world to support over 40TB of new data every day
  • Have end to end ownership: Design, build, ship, measure and maintain frontend and backend services
  • Collaborate with the brightest software engineers team members
  • Influence directly on the way billions of people discover the internet
  • Develop at unimaginable scale, serving hundreds of thousands of requests per second
  • Work on innovative projects that are the next growth engines for Taboola

Requirements

  • 5+ years programming experience in Java or equivalent Object-Oriented language (preferably Java 8+Spring)
  • Production systems understanding (system architecture of web products)
  • Fearlessness to dive into what you don't know
  • Passion for solving problems, and working very close to the business
  • Experience with SQL and No-SQL
  • BSc in computer science or equivalent
  • Willing to work intensively to gain fast results in an unknown field
  • Product driven
  • A pragmatic attitude toward decision-making (avoiding analysis paralysis)
  • Strong analytical skills

Tech stack

JavaSpringSparkKafkaHadoopCassandraVerticaMySQLHDFSBigQueryDockerLinuxKubernetesPrometheusGrafanaAirflow

Benefits

Well-being: Enjoy location-specific perksFlexibility: Hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with option to come in more often

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