Tech Lead

adjoe is a leading mobile ad platform developing cutting-edge advertising and monetization solutions that take its app partners’ business to the next level. Part of the applike group ecosystem, adjoe is home to an advanced tech stack, powerful financial backing from Bertelsmann, and a highly motivated workforce to be reckoned with.

Meet Your Team: Anti-Fraud Solutions

Our Anti-Fraud Solutions team tackles one of adtech's biggest challenges: industry reports suggest 25% of global mobile ad spend is fraudulent. We've built sophisticated systems that actively prevent fraud from impacting our partners' business.

At the core of our solution are custom-built mobile SDKs for Android and iOS, which analyze device integrity and detect modifications like Xposed frameworks, Magisk modules or jailbroken devices. Our distributed cloud infrastructure powered by SQS and Kafka processes billions of daily events to flag suspicious behaviors in real time, while Go-based microservices deliver millisecond-level responses using DynamoDB as our database.

For developers interested in cheat prevention, this means working with cutting-edge tech to continuously outsmart even the most creative tactics.

• Contribute to the development of our anti-fraud backend written in Go and maintain our microservice architecture. To do this, you’ll use event buses like Kafka and SQS/SNS in order to have reliable asynchronous microservice communication.
• Provide technical leadership by mentoring backend engineers, fostering their growth, setting high engineering standards, and ensuring alignment across the team to drive innovation and deliver results.
• Work in a community of developers with whom you’ll share knowledge and contribute to peer code reviews.
• Work with modern databases such as DynamoDB to deliver few-millisecond response times.
• Continuously improve our fraud detection systems to stay on top of changes in the Android and iOS platforms.
• Take part in investigations of the most novel and uncommon fraud complaints from our advertisers and publishers and work with mobile developers to reproduce exploits and cheats
• Be responsible for collecting the billions of daily API events and aggregating them in our Kafka streams with the goal of querying them from the data lake in a matter of seconds.
• Be part of an international English-speaking team dedicated to scaling our adtech platform beyond our hundreds of millions of monthly active users.

• You have gained several years of experience as a software architect/senior software developer
• You have outstanding experience with Go in a professional backend environment.
• You have a proven track record of leading engineering teams, including mentoring developers, setting technical direction, and aligning cross-functional teams toward shared goals.
• You have experience working in an event-driven environment using SQS/SNS, Kafka.
• You have extensive experience with large scale key-value databases such as DynamoDB, Cassandra or ScyllaDB.
• You thoroughly understand cloud infrastructures such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• You feel comfortable managing people and have previously worked in a leadership role in a fast-changing environment
• Plus: You have basic knowledge of mobile development (Android or iOS)

• Invest in Your Future: Regular feedback and our development program support your growth, helping you expand your skill set and achieve your career goals.
• Easy Arrival to adjoe: From signing to settling in Hamburg, we’ve got you covered. Need a visa? No problem. Ready to build your new life and career at adjoe in Hamburg? We support every ambition—from learning German to a relocation bonus that helps you settle in and make Hamburg feel like home.
• Live Your Best Life, at Work and Beyond: We work in a hybrid setup with 3 core office days, plus flexible working hours. Enjoy 30 vacation days, 3 weeks of remote work per year, and free access to an in-house gym with lots of different fitness classes and mental health support through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Thrive Where You Work: Enjoy the Alster lake view from our central office with top notch equipment, fun open spaces, and a large variety of snacks and drinks.
• Join the Community! Participate in regular team and company events, including hackathons and social gatherings. We work together, and we celebrate together, too.