Senior Backend Scala Developer

The opportunity

Join our team working on an advanced ad-serving platform that powers millions of real-time interactions every second. As a Senior Backend Developer, you’ll play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining a high-performance system that supports critical functionalities like targeting, attribution, budget management, and data pipelines for machine learning and reporting.You’ll be expected to lead impactful projects, drive improvements in performance, scalability, and system reliability, and help shape solutions that directly influence the success of a globally recognized platform. We value bottom-up initiatives and encourage team members to bring their ideas to the table, fostering innovation and collaboration.

Why You'll Love This Role:

• Take ownership of major projects and core features with significant business impact.
• Work alongside skilled engineers in a fast-paced, high-scale environment.
• Tackle challenging technical problems using cutting-edge tools like Kafka and Aerospike.

What you'll be doing

• Design, develop, and monitor new features for the platform, including components supporting targeting, attribution, and budget management.
• Maintain and optimize the performance of critical backend systems.
• Refactor and improve legacy code to ensure scalability and efficiency.
• Lead efforts to guarantee system reliability and low latency in a high-concurrency environment.
• Collaborate with peers and across teams to deliver high-quality, production-ready solutions.

What we're looking for

• Proficiency in backend development with Scala (highly preferred) or Java.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and real-time, high-concurrency applications.
• Experience with Kafka and other streaming/messaging systems.
• Extensive experience debugging and optimizing high-scale production environments.
• Proven ability to design and build backend systems focused on performance and scalability.

You might also have

• Hands-on experience with Aerospike or other NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes or container orchestration tools.
• Knowledge of functional programming paradigms.
• If you're looking for a role where you can contribute meaningfully, tackle exciting challenges, and work with a friendly, professional team that values collaboration and expertise, we’d love to hear from you!