Lead Backend Engineer
Lead backend architecture and technical direction for a large-scale mobile advertising platform. Build reliable, low-latency services and APIs, optimize performance under high concurrency, and guide engineering practices across teams. The role is hybrid and requires candidates local to the posting's
Обязанности
- Lead backend architecture, technical roadmaps, and delivery of scalable, fault-tolerant services and APIs
- Optimize low-latency services and algorithms for high throughput and real-time marketplace activity
- Design governed REST and gRPC APIs and asynchronous messaging interfaces
- Select and optimize languages and tools for performance, concurrency, and memory use
- Own services throughout production, including telemetry, tracing, failover, performance tuning, availability, and SLA compliance
- Mentor engineers, establish design principles, and lead code and architecture reviews
- Partner with product, architecture, and data engineering teams to translate business goals into technical plans
Требования
- 8+ years of experience building, scaling, and operating high-throughput backend platforms in production
- Demonstrated technical leadership and expertise with distributed systems
- Strong foundations in computer science, memory management, data structures, and distributed algorithms
- Expertise in at least two backend ecosystems, such as Java, Go, Kotlin, Scala, Python, C++, or TypeScript
- Experience with relational and distributed or NoSQL data stores, query optimization, and data pipeline architecture
- Experience designing APIs, event-driven architectures, and microservice integration patterns
- BSc or MSc in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent practical or military experience
Будет плюсом
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS or GCP, and CI/CD pipelines
- Exposure to ad exchanges, real-time bidding, high-frequency trading, or large-scale analytics
- Experience integrating machine learning models, inference engines, or streaming pipelines into backend services