As a Backend Engineer at Teads, you won't just be writing code; you will be solving complex technical puzzles at a massive scale. We operate in a very high-traffic environment.
You will tackle challenges involving big data, predictive AI, and high-performance architecture. within a systems that handle 2.2 billion users per month and process 100 billion events per day.
Team Overview
The Display SSP team is vital to Teads' monetization, managing the high-scale, low latency infrastructure for real-time native and display ad auctions. This core team connects publisher inventory with various demand sources - Teads' DSP, programmatic exchanges, and third parties - while ensuring supply quality and supporting multi-format ads within an expanding ecosystem.
About the Opportunity
We are seeking a talented Senior Backend Engineer to join the team responsible for one of Teads' most critical, revenue-driving platforms.
In this role, you will design and optimize the real-time auction logic that determines how publisher inventory is monetized, working on systems that process billions of ad requests daily.
You will have a direct impact on the platform's success by building scalable demand integrations, improving auction efficiency, and ensuring supply quality.
What will you do?
As a Senior Backend Engineer your mission will be to:
Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists and dev ops to research, develop, and deploy experiments, features and enhancements with a high impact on our serving infrastructure.
Create, design, develop, test, and monitor your code in production autonomously and reliably.
Work with the Engineering Manager, Product Manager and other teams to frame projects and be accountable for their execution.
Obtain a good understanding of the business to provide relevant solutions to clients.
Be a work facilitator and help communication inside and outside Teads.
Stay up-to-date on new technologies and architectures. If they can solve a problem Teads has, propose ways to implement them into our current software engineering process.
Requirements: At least 5 years of experience in Backend development.
Strong proficiency in Java/Kotlin/Go.
Production knowledge and practices (Release, Observability, Troubleshooting), experience from multiple shipped projects / applications.
Excellent programming abilities - testing your code is second nature to you.
Significant experience with application architecture, performance, maintainability, and overall quality.
Extensive experience working with large-scale, high-throughput, distributed systems, including connecting, processing and analyzing large volumes of data.
Analytical and experimental mindset - you validate ideas before investing substantial effort into development.
Strong communication skills and proven ability to collaborate effectively within a diverse global team.
Multiple shipped projects and applications in Software Engineering.
Hands-on production knowledge and practices (Release, Observability, Troubleshooting).
Active listener and dialogue facilitator - able to explain decisions clearly and share knowledge openly.
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to deliver high-quality solutions.
Our main Stack
Back: Java, Kotlin, Go
Database: MySQL ,BigQuery, Cassandra, Redis & Memcached
Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Azure , On-prem Kubernetes.
This position is open to all candidates.