Backend Development Tech Lead (f/m/d)

About adjoe

adjoe is a leading mobile ad platform developing cutting-edge advertising and monetization solutions that take its app partners’ business to the next level. Part of the applike group ecosystem, adjoe is home to an advanced tech stack, powerful financial backing from Bertelsmann, and a highly motivated workforce to be reckoned with

Position

Meet Your Team: Demand Solutions

The Demand Solutions team builds the core technologies to help mobile publishers acquire the right users for their apps and games. The team is proud that adjoe’s software – developed 100 percent in-house – manages, provides, and analyzes advertisements for more than 200 million daily mobile users.

adjoe’s Demand Solutions team builds modern user interfaces and software and powers its analytics in the dashboard with state-of-the-art databases like Druid. All to give end users the insights they need. The team provides KPIs by APIs in milliseconds and supports adjoe’s partners by offering the highest availability without outages. This is thanks to working with proper code quality, different testing standards, different mechanisms to auto-scale, and redundant cloud infrastructure. 

Besides delivering high standards, Demand Solutions remains flexible and autonomous from adjoe’s other team techs. To develop new platform features fast, this versatile team works on adjoe’s Go backend, which feeds data to the TypeScript React frontend

What You Will Do:

• Contribute to the development of our demand solutions backend written all in Go and maintain our microservice architecture used to communicate with our dashboard (based on TypeScript React). To do this, you’ll use event buses like Kafka, SQS/SNS, and Kinesis in order to have reliable asynchronous microservice communication
• Work in a community of developers with whom you’ll share knowledge and contribute to peer code reviews
• Work with modern databases such as DynamoDB and ScyllaDB to deliver few-millisecond response times for our mobile APIs and Druid to support fast and insightful analysis in our dashboard
• Continuously improve our distribution in order to stay up-to-date with the latest changes on the Android and iOS platform
• Be responsible for collecting the billions of daily API events and aggregating them in our Kafka and Kinesis streams with the goal of querying them from the data lake in a matter of seconds
• Design & maintain APIs used by our external partners for reporting and publishing configuration changes for advertisers like for example uploading new images and videos for ads
• Design & maintain APIs used by our mobile end users such that we can serve their traffic at scale
• Be part of an international English-speaking team dedicated to scaling our adtech platform beyond our hundreds of millions of monthly active users

Your qualification

• You have gained several years’ experience as a software architect/senior software developer and tech team lead
• You have at least 2 years of leadership experience
• You have outstanding experience with Go, Rust, PHP, Java, or C# applied in a professional backend environment
• You are an expert in different technologies – for example, in 2 programming languages.
• You thoroughly understand cloud infrastructures such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• You feel comfortable managing people and have previously worked in a leadership role in a fast-changing environment
• Plus: You have knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript (preferably of 1 framework such as React, Vue.js, or Angular)

What we offer

• Work-Life Package: 2 remote days per week, 30 vacation days, 3 weeks per year of remote work, flexible working hours, dog-friendly kick-ass office in the center of the city
• Relocation Package: Visa & legal support, relocation bonus, reimbursement of German Classes costs and more
• Happy Belly Package: Monthly company lunch, tons of free snacks and drinks, free breakfast & fresh delicious pastries every Monday
• Physical & Mental Health Package: In-house gym with personal trainer, various classes like Yoga with expert teachers
• Activity Package: Regular team and company events, hackathons
• Education Package: Opportunities to boost your professional development with courses and trainings directly connected to your career goals 
• Wealth building: virtual stock options for all our regular employees

Additional details

Skip writing cover letters. Tell us about your most passionate personal project, your desired salary and your earliest possible start date. We are looking forward to your application!

We welcome applications from people who will contribute to the diversity of our company.