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Senior Backend Engineer (Java) Remote Full-time

Our Customer:

Our customer is a sell-side omnichannel advertising platform leveraging real-time mobile audiences and AI-driven technology to deliver large-scale, data-powered digital advertising campaigns. The platform works with thousands of mobile apps and websites worldwide, processing tens of billions of anonymized first-party data signals daily to help marketers understand consumer behavior, identify new opportunities, and drive business growth.

Your tasks:

  • Design and develop highly scalable, modular backend applications and APIs using Java and Spring Boot.
  • Own the full development lifecycle — from requirements analysis, design, coding, and testing to deployment and monitoring in production.
  • Lead initiatives to improve system scalability, performance, and security.
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Algo, DevOps, BI, and Marketing to deliver integrated, business-driven solutions.
  • Ensure observability through robust logging, metrics, and alerting with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana.
  • Drive adoption of engineering best practices, code quality standards, and technical documentation.
  • Mentor and guide junior developers, fostering knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

Required Experience and Skills:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years of professional Java development experience – Must
  • Proven track record in designing and delivering complex distributed systems and microservices (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Strong understanding of scalability, concurrency, and performance optimization challenges.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and automated build/deployment pipelines.
  • Proficiency in Spring & Spring Boot frameworks.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction across teams.
  • Experience running applications on Kubernetes, with a focus on designing services that scale efficiently and consume resources effectively (rather than cluster administration).
  • Ability to measure and improve application performance using profiling, benchmarking, and APM tools (e.g., JFR, JMeter, Micrometer, New Relic, Datadog).
  • English — Upper-Intermediate.

Would be a plus:

  • Knowledge in the programmatic advertising landscape – DSPs, SSPs, exchanges – significant advantage.
  • Background with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Couchbase) and SQL databases.
  • Knowledge of reactive programming (Spring WebFlux).
  • Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and Kibana.

Working conditions

5-day working week, 8-hour working day, flexible schedule

5-day working week, 8-hour working day, flexible schedule;

Work from home with coffee

Remote work.

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