Senior Backend Engineer - Cloud Platform Team

About Teads

Teads is the omnichannel outcomes platform for the open internet, driving full-funnel results for marketers across premium media. With a focus on meaningful business outcomes for branding and performance objectives, the combined company ensures value is driven with every media dollar by leveraging predictive AI technology to connect quality media, beautiful brand creative, and context-driven addressability and measurement. One of the most scaled advertising platforms on the open internet, Teads is directly partnered with more than 10,000 publishers and 20,000 advertisers globally. The company is headquartered in New York, with a global team of nearly 1,800 people in 30+ countries.

For more information, visit www.teads.com.

About Our Team:

Our Platform Engineering team at Teads is the backbone of our engineering organization. We empower hundreds of engineers by building and maintaining the foundational infrastructure, tools, and services they rely on daily. 
From robust APIs and Backend CI / CD infrastructure, our work directly enhances developer productivity, efficiency, and the overall reliability of our systems.

We operate at scale, working closely with Kubernetes and a modern stack of Java/Kotlin/Scala .

What will you do?

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Cloud Platform Team, your mission will be to:

• Architect & Develop Core Infrastructure: Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable, reliable, and secure platform services that underpin all engineering efforts at Teads.
• Build Developer Tools: Lead the creation of powerful APIs and intuitive UI tools that streamline workflows and enhance the developer experience for hundreds of engineers.
• Full Lifecycle Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of platform services, from initial design and development to deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous optimization in production.
• Foster Innovation: Stay at the forefront of industry trends, cloud-native technologies, and AI advancements, proposing and championing new approaches to enhance our platform's capabilities and efficiency.

What will you bring to the team?

• Strong Programming & System Design:
  • 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.
  • A strong commitment to writing clean, maintainable, performant, and thoroughly tested code.
  • Familiarity with backend concepts or frameworks (e.g., Springboot, Kafka and etc …) is a plus
• Cloud-Native & Distributed Systems Experience:
  • 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.
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker Swarm) is highly desirable, or a strong willingness to learn and master it.
• CI/CD & DevOps mindset:
  • 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.
• Problem-Solving & Innovation:
  • Exceptional problem-solving abilities, capable of tackling complex, ambiguous infrastructure challenges and finding innovative, scalable solutions.
  • Curiosity and a proactive approach to learning new technologies and applying them to solve real-world problems.
• Communication & Collaboration:
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • A highly collaborative mindset, eager to share knowledge and contribute positively to team dynamics.

Why Join Our Team?

• Impact: Your work will directly empower hundreds of engineers and significantly impact Teads' ability to innovate and deliver.
• Challenge: You'll tackle complex, high-scale infrastructure problems at the backend of cloud-native technologies.
• Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning, professional development, and technical excellence.
• Collaboration: Work alongside talented and passionate engineers in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Please submit your CV in English.

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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.