Lead Backend Engineer - Ad Tech
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We are looking for a Lead Ad Tech Backend Engineer to help us build a modern and dynamic ad stack which can efficiently serve ads to our 70+ million active users. Our mission is to improve the ad experience for our users and advertisers alike, and grow our advertising business to a market leader. You will help us define and materialize our monetization vision.
What you’ll do
- Help us materialize our long term ads vision by turning it to tactical goals and requirements
- Plan and coordinate several large projects across our ad infrastructure
- Be a technical leader within the team you work with and within Spotify in general
- Help architect our ad delivery stack to be able to optimize for both yield and performance
- Architect, design, develop, deploy and operate Java services that serve millions of users
- Hack on your ideas during regular hack days and bi-annual hack weeks
Who you are:
- You are a technical leader within the ad tech domain
- You have 10+ years of experience in designing and building distributed, high-volume services in Java
- You have a good understanding of the advertising business and the ability to bridge the gap between tech and product
- You contribute to the long term vision and strategy in your domain of expertise
- You have preferably worked with bidders, pacers and ad performance optimizations
- You have experience architecting and building high volume, low latency, highly available systems
- You have experience leading large projects across several teams
- You are a skilled communicator and have a proven record of leading work across disciplines
- You are a passionate mentor and teacher
- You take operational responsibility for the services you build and maintain
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users and our creators. This is something we value deeply and we encourage everyone to come be a part of changing the way the world listens to music.
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