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
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