Senior Backend Engineer

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company! As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll be instrumental in building and optimizing our core infrastructure for managing RTB requests at scale, one of the biggest revenue driven operations in the company. To thrive in this role, you’ll need: 5+ years programming experience in Java or equivalent Object-Oriented language (preferably Java 8+Spring) Production systems understanding (system architecture of web products) Fearlessness to dive into what you don't know Passion for solving problems, and working very close to the business Experience with SQL and No-SQL BSc in computer science or equivalent Willing to work intensively to gain fast results in an unknown field Product driven A pragmatic attitude toward decision-making (avoiding analysis paralysis) Strong analytical skills Bonus points if you have: Experience developing large scale distributed systems Experienced with Kafka/docker/k8s Deep understanding with web systems (API / REST / NGINX) Experience with SQL and NoSQL (mysql / Vertica / Cassandra) Experience in Big Data tools (BQ / zeppelin etc) Knowledge in algorithms, data-mining and machine learning How you’ll make an impact: As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll bring value by: Develop one of the largest real time big data operation in the world to support over 40TB of new data every day Have end to end ownership: Design, build, ship, measure and maintain our frontend and backend services Collaborate with the brightest software engineers team members Influence directly on the way billions of people discover the internet Develop at unimaginable scale, serving hundreds of thousands of requests per second Work on innovative projects that are the next growth engines for Taboola Here are some of the things software developers in our group did in the last several months: A unique data pipeline for managing RTB requests at scale An algorithmic model to predict if a given Real-Time impression is valuable to Taboola A smart gateway that ingests hundreds of thousands of requests per second for a single instance An A/B tests system to explore variations and experiments And many more...