Senior Software Engineer
Employer · Taboola
Software developerApplications developerFull-timeBudapest
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Dynamic Creative Optimization team in our Budapest office, you'll play a vital role in building and optimizing the large-scale infrastructure that powers one of Taboola's revenue-driving systems. You'll design and develop highly scalable backend services that process hundreds of thousands of real-time requests per second while enabling intelligent decision-making for one of the world's largest advertising marketplaces.
Tasks
- Design, build, and optimize backend infrastructure supporting one of Taboola's largest real-time data platforms.
- Own features end-to-end, from architecture and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Develop highly scalable services processing hundreds of thousands of requests per second and tens of terabytes of new data daily.
- Collaborate closely with experienced software engineers to solve complex distributed systems challenges.
- Build innovative platforms that improve real-time decision-making, experimentation, and marketplace performance.
- Drive technical excellence while influencing products that impact billions of content recommendations across the open web.
- Design and maintain monitoring and alerting setups to spot and address system health issues before they impact users.
Conditions & benefits
Competitive benefitsComprehensive health benefits, a fully stocked kitchen, and location-specific perks.FlexibilityHybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office.
Requirements
- 5 years of backend software engineering experience developing production systems using Java or another object-oriented programming language (preferably Java 8 ).
- Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems and high-performance backend services.
- Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL databases in production environments.
- Solid understanding of web architectures, APIs, distributed systems, and scalable system design.
- Experience with Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, or other large-scale data technologies.
- B.Sc. in Computer Science or an equivalent technical degree.