Software Engineer

5 Months ago • 1-3 Years • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Backend Software Engineer at AppLovin, you'll design, develop, and maintain large-scale, distributed systems for their Ads platform. This includes working on key products like MAX (mobile app monetization) and AppDiscovery (user acquisition). You'll handle billions of daily ad requests, optimizing performance, enhancing infrastructure, and creating innovative solutions. Collaboration with various engineering and product teams is crucial, contributing to product roadmaps and inspiring team members. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, high-volume event processing, and ideally experience with ad systems and databases like MySQL.
Must have:
  • 1-3 years experience
  • BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering
  • Data structures & algorithms
  • C++/Java (nice to have)
  • Independent project creation & maintenance
Good to have:
  • Advertising domain knowledge
  • Real-time, high-volume event processing
  • Experience with ad systems/reporting at scale
  • MySQL database experience

Job Details

About AppLovin

AppLovin makes technologies that help businesses of every size connect to their ideal customers. The company provides end-to-end software and AI solutions for businesses to reach, monetize and grow their global audiences. For more information about AppLovin, visit: www.applovin.com.

To deliver on this mission, our global team is composed of team members with life experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives that mirror our developers and customers around the world. At AppLovin, we are intentional about the team and culture we are building, seeking candidates who are outstanding in their own right and also demonstrate their support of others.

Fortune recognizes AppLovin as one of the Best Workplaces in the Bay Area, and the company has been a Certified Great Place to Work for the last four years (2021-2024). Check out the rest of our awards HERE.

A Day in the Life

As a member of our backend software engineering team, you’ll solve technical challenges, including upgrading and implementing state-of-the-art software infrastructure. Our team is responsible for the backend of the Ads platform, managing key products that drive mobile app monetization and advertiser management. We own and maintain critical products such as:

MAX: A leading mobile app monetization platform that helps app developers optimize ad placements and maximize revenue.

AppDiscovery: A comprehensive solution for advertisers to efficiently acquire users and optimize their ad campaigns.

In this role, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to high-scale systems that handle billions of ad requests daily, focusing on optimizing performance, enhancing infrastructure, and creating innovative solutions in the dynamic ad tech industry

Our backend systems handle billions of requests per day, and work on our mediation platform responsible for our header bidding solution, creating high-availability low-latency systems that are distributed across multiple data centers. 

 

The Impact You’ll Make

  • Design, develop, and maintain large-scale distributed systems
  • Collaborate with various engineering teams to meet a wide range of technological challenges
  • Work closely with our product team to contribute and influence the roadmap of our products and technologies
  • Influence and inspire team members

 

Who You Are

  • Have 1-3 years of experience and a minimum of a BS and/or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering
  • Have excellent knowledge of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and coding
  • Professional experience with C++ and/or Java is a nice to have
  • Experience independently creating and maintaining projects

 

Additional Strengths:

  • Domain knowledge of advertising space and technologies
  • Worked on systems processing real-time, high-volume events.
  • Experience with ads systems, and/or ads reporting systems operating at large scale
  • Experience with databases technologies such as MySQL

We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on March 12, 2024.

Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here.

AppLovin has become aware of a scam targeting jobseekers with fake “app optimization” and similar roles.  We do not ask our candidates to download apps or make any form of payment(s). AppLovin works with applicants through our Careers page and applovin.com email addresses. If you are contacted through other unofficial channels (such as WhatsApp or Telegram) or asked to download an app or make a payment, these contacts are not legitimate. Confirm the information here and contact us directly with any questions.
 
AppLovin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about EEO rights as an applicant here.
 
If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send us a request at accommodations@applovin.com.
 
AppLovin will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.  If you’re applying for a position in California, learn more here.
 
Please read our Global Applicant Privacy Notice to learn more about how AppLovin processes your personal information.

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