11 hours ago
Helsinki, FinlandSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and build a reporting engine for flexible analytical views across advertising data.
- Solve backend engineering challenges involving performance, reliability, distributed systems, and large-scale analytical workloads.
- Design interfaces and abstractions for integrating new advertising channels.
- Drive software from design through production across Ruby, TypeScript, Kafka, ClickHouse, and PostgreSQL/Citus.
- Improve architecture and engineering practices for maintainable and resilient systems.
- Make technical decisions, contribute to technical direction, and mentor other engineers.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating large-scale, highly available backend systems with distributed-systems, performance, and reliability concerns.
- Strong relational database and query-performance fundamentals, with analytical or OLAP workload experience preferred.
- Experience designing concurrent background workloads, asynchronous processing, or event-driven architectures such as those using Kafka.
- Strong software design skills, including abstractions, interfaces, testing, and maintainability.
- Ability to take ambiguous technical problems from exploration and design through production.
- Clear communication, cross-team collaboration, mentoring, and thoughtful technical feedback.
- Experience with or interest in query generation, abstract syntax trees, compiler concepts, or domain-specific languages is a bonus.
Benefits
- Inclusive global culture with colleagues across more than 60 nationalities and 24 locations in 13 countries.
- Healthcare packages, mental health services, paid holidays, family leave, and work-life balance support.
- Equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and career development opportunities.
- Flexible hybrid workplace combining office and remote work, with the option to work abroad for up to 30 days annually.
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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.