Remote IT Talent
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remoteittalent.com
Job details:
Senior Backend Developer – AdTech & Retail Media
Experience: 8+ Years
Location: Remote
Employment Type: Full-Time
Joining: Immediate Joiners
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Developer with strong experience in AdTech and Retail/Retail Media domains. The ideal candidate will have a strong backend engineering background along with hands-on experience working with programmatic advertising, DSP, SSP, RTB, ad serving, campaign platforms, or retail media/advertising systems.
The candidate should be comfortable designing and developing scalable, high-performance backend systems and working with large volumes of real-time advertising and retail data.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
- Build and enhance high-performance systems for AdTech and Retail Media platforms.
- Work with programmatic advertising, campaign management, bidding, ad serving, and advertising analytics systems.
- Develop and integrate services related to DSP, SSP, RTB, and programmatic advertising.
- Work with large-scale data processing and real-time/event-driven systems.
- Design microservices and distributed backend architectures.
- Develop integrations with advertising platforms, data providers, and retail/e-commerce systems.
- Work with campaign, audience, product, customer, and advertising performance data.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, data engineers, and other engineering teams.
- Troubleshoot performance, scalability, reliability, and production issues.
- Participate in architecture and system-design discussions.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested production code.
Required SkillsBackend Development
- 8+ years of professional software development experience.
- Strong experience in Java / Spring Boot, Python, or .NET/C#.
- Strong knowledge of REST APIs and Microservices.
- Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms.
- Strong understanding of databases such as SQL and NoSQL.
- Experience with Kafka or other event-streaming technologies is preferred.
- Experience building high-volume, scalable, and low-latency backend systems.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and system design.
AdTech / Programmatic Advertising
Hands-on experience with several of the following:
- DSP – Demand-Side Platform
- SSP – Supply-Side Platform
- RTB – Real-Time Bidding
- OpenRTB
- Programmatic Advertising
- Ad Serving
- Bidding Platforms / Bidding Engines
- Ad Exchanges
- Campaign Management
- Audience Targeting
- Impression and Click Tracking
- Conversion Tracking
- Attribution
- Advertising Analytics
- Real-time advertising systems
Experience with platforms/companies such as The Trade Desk (TTD), Google DV360, Criteo, Amazon DSP/Amazon Advertising, Epsilon, Publicis, or CitrusAd will be highly relevant.
Retail / Retail Media
Experience in one or more of the following:
- Retail Media / Retail Media Networks
- Commerce Media
- E-commerce Advertising
- Retail Advertising Platforms
- Retail Analytics
- Campaign and Advertising Analytics
- Customer/Audience Analytics
- Product/Catalog Data
- Audience Segmentation
- Attribution and Conversion Analytics
- First-Party Customer Data
- Advertising Performance / ROAS Analytics
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working on large-scale AdTech or Retail Media platforms.
- Experience with high-throughput and low-latency applications.
- Experience with AWS services and cloud-native architecture.
- Experience with Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, or similar technologies.
- Experience integrating third-party advertising or retail platforms.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
Candidate Requirements
- 8+ years of software/backend development experience
- Strong backend development experience
- Relevant AdTech and/or Retail Media domain experience
- Experience with DSP / SSP / RTB / Programmatic Advertising is highly preferred
- Immediate joiners preferred
- Candidates who can join within a short notice period may also be considered.
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