2 months ago
Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build backend services and client-side code for Taboola recommendation ad formats and user experiences.
- Own features from design and development through testing, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.
- Develop high-scale backend services serving billions of requests per day with emphasis on performance, resilience, and observability.
- Develop ad formats including carousel, app install, and video ads.
- Use data and performance metrics to guide product and business decisions.
- Build AI agents, skills, and workflows for automated code reviews, data analysis, production anomaly investigation, feature validation, and debugging.
- Collaborate with Product, Data, and UX teams on product design and implementation.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of hands-on full-stack programming experience.
- Daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex.
- Hands-on server-side development experience; Java or an equivalent object-oriented language is advantageous.
- Understanding of vanilla JavaScript, CSS, and HTML; React and TypeScript knowledge is advantageous.
- Experience working with databases.
- BSc in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Preferred experience includes high-scale or distributed backend systems, message queues, caching, concurrency, cross-browser and multi-device support, AI agents and automated workflows, and advanced JavaScript and web concepts.
- Familiarity with Web Components, Lighthouse, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, BigQuery, MySQL, or Grafana is a plus.
Benefits
- Hybrid work schedule with 3 days in the Tel Aviv office and the option to work in-office more often.
- Competitive regional benefits, well-being programs, a fully stocked kitchen, and location-specific perks.
- Inclusive equal-opportunity workplace focused on employee growth and learning.
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About Taboola
Taboola builds an AI-driven native advertising and content recommendation platform for publishers, advertisers, and device makers, including the Realize ad-buying platform. The public company, founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York, trades on NASDAQ and FRA, partners with publishers such as NBC News and Yahoo and OEMs like Samsung and Xiaomi, and its network reaches roughly 600 million daily active users.