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Senior Backend Engineer, Vertical Ads

SmartNews Shibuya-ku, Tokyo September 10 2024
  • 💴 No salary range given
  • 🏡
    Partially remote
  • 🌏
    Apply from abroad
    Relocate to Japan
  • 💬
    No Japanese required
    Business English
  • 🧪
    Senior level
    Unspecified years of experience

About SmartNews

SmartNews Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Created to deliver high-quality news from a wide variety of trusted publishers in one place, the SmartNews team works tirelessly to help readers feel good about being informed.

Key benefits

  • Your ideas matter
  • International team

About the position

In this role, you will collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and sales from different regions. Your role involves laying the foundational groundwork through our focus on architecture and other core engineering tasks to support better feature engineering. We highly value curiosity and a proactive mindset, as you will have the opportunity to contribute your ideas and take ownership. We encourage engineering-driven initiatives to accelerate product growth further.

You will also work with exciting teams from JP and the US, where you can shape the future of new products by building and iterating on solutions while prioritizing scalability, performance, reliability, security, and other essential engineering practices.

The Team

The SmartNews Ads Division has many teams, together we build systems that find the best interests among the 3 parties: our users, advertisers, publishers and SmartNews. 

Vertical Ads Team is responsible for building and optimizing vertical product solutions such as branding ads, dynamic ads, and more. Branding ads are high-quality, visually compelling ads crafted to enhance brand visibility and recognition.

Responsibilities

  • You'll make a strong partnership with product teams to build the next generation of SmartNews Brand Ads & Dynamic Ads Product
  • You’ll question the current solution, propose improvements then realize them with the team
  • You'll Work on end to end stack of ad-platform including serving, bidding and optimization

Requirements

  • Fluent in any of the following languages: Java, Kotlin, Golang, C++
  • Fluent in using Kafka, Redis, SQL and Cassandra
  • Deep understanding in batching and streaming data processing
  • Experienced in CICD
  • Experienced in microservice powered by container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes

Nice to haves

While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.

  • Language ability: Golang, TypeScript, Python, SQL
  • Db experience: Cassandra, DynamoDb and MongoDb
  • Engineering experience: migrate on-prem system onto cloud
  • Industry experience: Digital Advertising Technology

Meet SmartNews's Developers

Cortland recently joined SmartNews as an engineering manager, where he leads a six person team. He talks about what drew him to the company, his role as a manager, and how they use matrix management to maximize their engineers’ success.

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YuCheng is a senior software engineer at SmartNews. He explains the freedom he enjoys at SmartNews: not only from a technical perspective, but also the influence he can have over the direction of the product.

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When Robert joined SmartNews as a software engineer, most of his colleagues were Japanese. Since then, it’s grown into an international organization where English is predominantly used.

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