Senior Backend Engineer

What you'll do

• Lead end-to-end design, development, and delivery of complex, scalable, highly available backend services for real-time ad exchange
• Architect systems for long-term maintainability and low-risk large-scale changes
• Profile, tune, and optimize system performance for ultra-low latency and high throughput under massive concurrent loads
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, conduct code reviews, shape technical standards, promote best practices
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Data Scientists, and engineering squads to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Own lifecycle of services in production, implement monitoring, alerting, and observability to troubleshoot production incidents
• Work closely with DevOps to optimize deployment pipelines and cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, GCP)
• Leverage AI coding assistants and agentic tools to accelerate development and automate routine tasks

Requirements

• 5+ years of proven experience in backend software development with focus on large-scale distributed systems
• Expert-level proficiency in at least one statically typed backend language (Scala, Java, Kotlin, Go, Rust, C++)
• Deep understanding of language ecosystem (e.g., JVM internals, memory management)
• Proven track record building and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency, real-time systems
• Deep understanding of software architecture, microservices, design patterns, OOP and/or Functional Programming
• Hands-on experience modeling and scaling relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases (Redis, Cassandra, Aerospike, Elasticsearch)
• Strong experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) in a major cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical/military experience

Tech stack