Lead Backend Engineer
Digital Turbine, Inc.1 month ago
Petaẖ Tiqwa, IsraelStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead backend architecture, technical roadmaps, and end-to-end execution for scalable, fault-tolerant platform services and APIs.
- Build and optimize low-latency backend services handling high concurrency, complex algorithms, and real-time marketplace workflows.
- Design and maintain governed APIs and asynchronous messaging interfaces for modular product integration.
- Evaluate polyglot technologies for performance, concurrency, and memory utilization across backend ecosystems.
- Own backend services throughout their production lifecycle, including telemetry, distributed tracing, failover, and performance tuning.
- Mentor engineers, lead code and architecture reviews, establish backend design principles, and promote engineering excellence.
- Partner with Product Leads, System Architects, and Data Engineering teams to translate business goals into technical strategies.
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on experience building, scaling, and operating high-throughput backend platforms in production, with demonstrated technical leadership in distributed systems.
- Strong computer science, memory management, data structures, distributed algorithms, high-concurrency, and resource-optimization expertise.
- Expertise in at least two backend ecosystems, such as Java, Go, Kotlin, Scala, Python, C++, or TypeScript.
- Deep experience with relational and distributed or NoSQL data stores, query optimization, and data pipeline architecture.
- Expertise designing enterprise-grade APIs, event-driven architectures, and microservice integration patterns using technologies such as Kafka and RabbitMQ.
- Proven ability to navigate ambiguity, build technical consensus, and independently deliver mission-critical software.
- B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent practical or military experience.
- Preferred: experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS or GCP, and automated CI/CD pipelines.
- Preferred: exposure to ad exchange mechanics, Real-Time Bidding, high-frequency trading, large-scale analytics, or machine learning integration in backend workflows.
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment; candidates must be local to the posting location.
- Equal opportunity workplace committed to diversity, inclusion, and an equitable environment.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache CassandraApache KafkaAWSC++DockerElasticsearchGoGoogle Cloud PlatformgRPCJavaKotlinKubernetesMySQLNode.jsPostgreSQLPythonRabbitMQRedisScalaTypeScript
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About Digital Turbine, Inc.
Digital Turbine builds a mobile growth and monetization platform that connects advertisers, app developers, carriers, and OEMs through on-device app discovery, ad delivery, and data-driven optimization. Its products include on-device placements (Ignite), a demand-side platform, offerwall, and content media services that drive user acquisition and ad revenue. The company is publicly traded on NASDAQ (APPS) and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.