Senior Backend Engineer at Teads1

About Teads Teads is a leading omnichannel advertising platform focused on driving outcomes for brand and performance advertisers across screens. With a focus on meaningful business outcomes for branding and performance objectives, Teads drives value by leveraging predictive AI technology to connect quality media, beautiful brand creative, and context-driven addressability and measurement. Teads is directly partnered with more than 10,000 publishers and 20,000 advertisers globally. The company is headquartered in New York, New York with a global team of around 1,700 people in 30+ countries. For more information, visit www.teads.com. Our Main Engineering Challenges at Teads As a Backend Engineer at Teads, you won't just be writing code; you will be solving complex technical puzzles at a massive scale. We operate in a very high-traffic environment. You will tackle challenges involving big data, predictive AI, and high-performance architecture. within a systems that handle 2.2 billion users per month and process 100 billion events per day. Team Overview The Display SSP team is vital to Teads' monetization, managing the high-scale, low latency infrastructure for real-time native and display ad auctions. This core team connects publisher inventory with various demand sources - Teads' DSP, programmatic exchanges, and third parties - while ensuring supply quality and supporting multi-format ads within an expanding ecosystem. About the Opportunity We are seeking a talented Senior Backend Engineer to join the team responsible for one of Teads' most critical, revenue-driving platforms. In this role, you will design and optimize the real-time auction logic that determines how publisher inventory is monetized, working on systems that process billions of ad requests daily. You will have a direct impact on the platform's success by building scalable demand integrations, improving auction efficiency, and ensuring supply quality. What will you do? As a Senior Backend Engineer your mission will be to: • Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists and dev ops to research, develop, and deploy experiments, features and enhancements with a high impact on our serving infrastructure. • Create, design, develop, test, and monitor your code in production autonomously and reliably. • Work with the Engineering Manager, Product Manager and other teams to frame projects and be accountable for their execution. • Obtain a good understanding of the business to provide relevant solutions to clients. • Be a work facilitator and help communication inside and outside Teads. • Stay up-to-date on new technologies and architectures. If they can solve a problem Teads has, propose ways to implement them into our current software engineering process. What will you bring to the team? • At least 5 years of experience in Backend development. • Strong proficiency in Java/Kotlin/Go. • Production knowledge and practices (Release, Observability, Troubleshooting…), experience from multiple shipped projects / applications. • Excellent programming abilities – testing your code is second nature to you. • Significant experience with application architecture, performance, maintainability, and overall quality. • Extensive experience working with large-scale, high-throughput, distributed systems, including connecting, processing and analyzing large volumes of data. • Analytical and experimental mindset – you validate ideas before investing substantial effort into development. • Strong communication skills and proven ability to collaborate effectively within a diverse global team. • Multiple shipped projects and applications in Software Engineering. • Hands-on production knowledge and practices (Release, Observability, Troubleshooting). • Active listener and dialogue facilitator – able to explain decisions clearly and share knowledge openly. • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to deliver high-quality solutions. Our main Stack • Back: Java, Kotlin, Go • Database: MySQL ,BigQuery, Cassandra, Redis & Memcached • Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Azure , On-prem Kubernetes We care about you • Hybrid working model (3 days per week in the office) • Nearby parking available • Expand your toolbox with our mentorship program and internal learning tools • Pet friendly office • Happy hours • …and of course a fully stocked kitchen! Please submit your CV in English. #LI-Hybrid Life at Teads At Teads, we don’t just offer new roles - we blend creativity, technology, and data to shape the future of media. You’ll work with smart humans, meaningful brands, and cool tools, all while helping redefine how advertising works in a world that demands more transparency, better insights, and smarter strategies. As a Teadster, you’ll play a critical role in shaping our future success in the region. Here’s why Teads stands out: • We've merged two open internet category leaders—Outbrain and Teads—to create the ‘new’ Teads, a unified omnichannel platform that drives results from branding to performance across all screens, including CTV, mobile, and web. • As part of our team, you’ll thrive in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment that fosters innovation, creative problem-solving, and continuous learning. • Teads is committed to your success, offering the support, tools, and development opportunities you need to excel in your role. Our company culture is welcoming, dynamic, diverse, global, and built on top performance. Teads is an equal employment opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion at all stages of recruitment and employment. Our team is made up of individuals who are approachable, resourceful, passionate, and proactive. We foster a sense of belonging through our Employee Resource Groups – employee-led groups in which we debate topics and drive change: environmental, women empowerment, charitable initiatives to diversity, equity, and inclusion, you’ll be able to share your passions with likeminded people.