Backend Engineer II

A Day in the Life

As a member of our backend software engineering team, you’ll solve technical challenges, including upgrading and implementing state-of-the-art software infrastructure. The team builds a high-performance, high availability, globally distributed ecosystem platform of services that in turn provide the foundation for rapid development of novel new systems that integrate into that ecosystem and improve it

Our backend systems handle billions of requests per day, and work on our mediation platform responsible for our header bidding solution, creating high-availability low-latency systems that are distributed across multiple data centers. 

The Impact You’ll Make

• Design, develop, and maintain large-scale distributed systems
• Collaborate with various engineering teams to meet a wide range of technological challenges
• Work closely with our product team to contribute and influence the roadmap of our products and technologies
• Influence and inspire team members

Who You Are

• Have 2-5+ years of experience and a minimum of a BS and/or MS in Computer Science
• Have excellent knowledge of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and coding
• Professional experience with C++ and/or Java
• Experience independently creating and maintaining projects

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