Backend Engineer: Retail Media

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Design, deliver & maintain web services in close collaboration with other engineers
• - Build / deploy / support services using Python and FastAPI
• - Write AWS CloudFormation scripts, Jenkins jobs, Github actions following best industry standards
• - Set up service observability, monitoring metrics, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, AWS CloudWatch)
• - Implement CI/CD pipelines and separate stability testing
• - Collaborate with technical and non-technical business partners to develop / update functionalities
• - Communicate with stakeholders within and outside the team

Required Skills

• - Strong computer science background & familiarity with networking principles
• - Experience in designing, developing & maintaining highload real-time services
• - Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation or Terraform for managing cloud resources
• - Hands-on experience with setting up and improving CI/CD pipelines
• - Proficiency in Python
• - Experience in server-side coding for web services, and a good understanding of API design principles
• - Skilled in setting up and managing observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and integrating alert systems like PagerDuty
• - Familiarity with Service-Oriented Architecture, knowledge of communication protocols like protobuf
• - Experience with NoSQL and relational databases, distributed systems, and caching solutions (MySQL/PostgreSQL, ClickHouse/Athena)
• - Experience with any of the major public cloud service providers: AWS, Azure, GCP
• - Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams
• - Excellent English communication skills
• - Ideal candidate has previous experience building ad tech solutions

Benefits

• - Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year
• - Fully remote team - choose where you live
• - Work from home stipend! We want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office
• - Apple laptops provided for new employees
• - Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year
• - Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees
• - Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact
• - Base salary: $80k–$120k USD, depending on knowledge, skills, experience, and interview results
• - Stock options - offered in addition to the base salary
• - Regular team offsites to connect and collaborate