1 day ago
Mexico City, MexicoSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve scalable data-intensive backend services and APIs.
- Build and maintain data ingestion pipelines and integrations with internal and external systems.
- Develop efficient strategies for processing large data volumes while maintaining API performance and predictable system behavior.
- Design data models and distributed processing architectures that balance performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across services, databases, and data-processing workflows.
- Own technical problems from design through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
- Influence architecture and technical trade-offs through design discussions, code reviews, and collaboration with engineering and product teams.
Requirements
- Strong professional experience building backend systems with Node.js, TypeScript, or comparable modern backend technologies.
- Experience designing and operating complex distributed applications in production.
- Strong understanding of APIs, databases, data modeling, asynchronous processing, backend performance, scalability, reliability, concurrency, and failure modes.
- Experience ingesting, transforming, or processing significant volumes of data.
- Ability to own technically ambiguous problems and drive them to production-ready solutions.
- Ability to contribute to architecture and technical direction as a senior individual contributor.
- Clear communication and collaboration skills across engineering and product teams.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model requiring work from the Mexico City office one day per week, with remote work flexibility.
- Option to work abroad for up to 30 days annually.
- Healthcare packages, mental health services, paid holidays, and family leave.
- Equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and career development opportunities.
- Inclusive global culture with colleagues across multiple nationalities and locations.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Smartly
Smartly builds an AI-driven advertising platform used by brands and agencies to create, manage, and optimize ads across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Google, Pinterest, and other major media platforms. It sells subscription software and managed services for creative automation, campaign optimization, and reporting. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Helsinki, the company is owned by Providence Equity Partners and reports managing $5B in annual ad spend for 700+ brands and over 800 billion impressions.