Teads is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Cloud Platform Team. In this role, you will be responsible for architecting and developing the core infrastructure services and developer tools that empower hundreds of engineers across the company. You will take full lifecycle ownership of platform services, staying at the forefront of cloud-native and AI technologies.
What You'll Do
- Architect, develop, and maintain highly scalable, reliable, and secure platform services that underpin all engineering efforts.
- Lead the creation of powerful APIs and intuitive UI tools that streamline workflows and enhance the developer experience.
- Take end-to-end ownership of platform services, from design and development to deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization.
- Stay at the forefront of industry trends, cloud-native technologies, and AI advancements, proposing new approaches to enhance the platform.
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years of professional software development experience with a significant focus on backend systems, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
- Deep proficiency in at least one of Java, Kotlin, or Scala with a solid understanding of object-oriented design, functional programming paradigms, and distributed system architectures.
- Strong commitment to writing clean, maintainable, performant, and thoroughly tested code.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, API design, and asynchronous communication patterns.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure-as-code principles.
- Hands-on experience with GitHub + GitHub Actions and/or TeamCity/Jenkins in production.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts: reusable pipelines, artifact management, release flows, quality gates, caching/optimization, and reducing flaky builds.
- Production ownership mentality: observability (logs/metrics/traces), incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement.
- Exceptional problem-solving abilities, capable of tackling complex, ambiguous infrastructure challenges.
- Curiosity and a proactive approach to learning new technologies.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly.
- Highly collaborative mindset, eager to share knowledge and contribute positively to team dynamics.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with backend concepts or frameworks (e.g., Springboot, Kafka).
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker Swarm) is highly desirable, or a strong willingness to learn and master it.
Technical Stack
- Languages: Java, Kotlin, Scala
- Infrastructure & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure
- Frameworks & Tools: Springboot, Kafka
- CI/CD & Source Control: GitHub, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Jenkins
Team & Environment
The Platform Engineering team is the backbone of the engineering organization, empowering hundreds of engineers. You will be part of the Platform Engineering team, specifically the Cloud Platform Team.
Benefits & Compensation
- Culture of continuous learning, professional development, and technical excellence.
- Supportive and collaborative environment.
- Welcoming, dynamic, diverse, global, and built on top performance.
- Collaborative and forward-thinking environment that fosters innovation, creative problem-solving, and continuous learning.
- Commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- Employee Resource Groups for environmental, women empowerment, charitable initiatives, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Work Mode
This position operates on a hybrid work model.
Teads is an equal employment opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion at all stages of recruitment and employment.
