2 months ago
Taipei, TaiwanSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable, high-performance backend services for real-time ad recommendation, data serving, and ad-tech infrastructure.
- Own technical roadmaps and delivery for sizable projects within the Ad Cloud ecosystem.
- Optimize databases, network architecture, latency, throughput, and resource utilization.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, observability, incident management, and production operational improvements.
- Collaborate with product managers and scientists to translate requirements into technical designs and integrations.
- Lead code reviews, promote engineering best practices, and maintain code quality.
- Mentor junior engineers in backend development, distributed systems, and engineering practices.
- Participate in the Backend team’s on-call rotation and improve service reliability and scalability.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of hands-on backend software development experience, particularly with high-performance and high-concurrency systems.
- Proficiency in one or more of Go and Python.
- Strong system design and architecture experience for scalable distributed systems in Linux environments.
- Experience with network API design, message queues, and data pipelines.
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, including database optimization and scaling strategies.
- Familiarity with CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and alerting with tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- A BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.
- Experience refactoring complex systems, improving performance metrics, and optimizing resource utilization is preferred.
- Familiarity with A/B testing frameworks, customizable model configurations, production machine-learning model serving, ad tech, or recommendation systems is preferred.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureClickHouseDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanagRPCKubernetesLinuxMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonRedis
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About Appier
Appier builds AI-driven advertising and marketing software for enterprises, offering programmatic ad bidding, customer data, and predictive tools delivered as SaaS. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Taipei, it is a public company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (ticker: 4180). Its Ad Cloud processes millions of bid requests per second across APAC, Europe, and the U.S., and is used by in-house and agency marketers.