Senior Backend Engineer

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.

Our main Engineering challenges at Teads

• Build efficient and easy-to-use web products used by thousands of users working for the world’s most premium publishers, advertisers, and agencies.
• Rich and diverse tech stack and system architecture to optimize for performance, scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency. We use mostly Scala and TypeScript, among others.
• Working in a very high-traffic environment (2.2 billion users per month, 100 billion events per day) with low latency and high availability constraints (2 million requests per second, responses in less than 150 milliseconds).
• Management of large datasets with milliseconds order of magnitude access time, to compute in a near real-time complex auction resolution algorithm (18 million predictions per second).
• A fast-changing environment where we continuously collaborate with Product teams and constantly adapt our Cloud infrastructure for new features and Products.
• Bring a wide diversity of profiles to the same level of quality and knowledge
• Work in an international environment with offices located in Israel, Slovenia and France.
  
  

Team Overview

The Global Marketplace Optimization team builds algorithms to optimize Teads marketplace, improving performance for both supply and demand.

We’re a multidisciplinary team of data scientists, algorithm engineers, and data engineers who own the full optimization lifecycle: from research and development to production at scale.

About The Opportunity

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Backend Engineer to join our team.

You’ll tackle complex challenges at the intersection of backend development, scale and data - building and optimizing algorithms that power our marketplace.

What will you do?

• Design, develop, and optimize backend solutions that implement scalable, efficient algorithmic solutions.
• Solve complex performance and low-latency challenges for data-heavy, high-throughput distributed systems.
• Collaborate with data scientists, product, and other backend engineers to research, develop, and deploy end-to-end solutions that drive global business KPIs.
• Ensure that all backend systems are tested, optimized, and continuously monitored
• Develop a strong understanding of the business to provide high-impact solutions to our stakeholders
  
  

What will you bring to the team?

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on backend development.
• Deep proficiency in Java/Scala and Python
• Operational excellence: release management, observability, troubleshooting, and performance tuning in production.
• Strong foundation in system design, working with large-scale, high-throughput, distributed systems, including processing and analyzing large-scale data.
• Analytical and experimental mindset – you validate ideas with data before investing heavily in development.
• Commitment to Quality: clean, performant, and thoroughly tested code.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; you listen actively, explain decisions clearly, and enjoy sharing knowledge.
  
  

We Care About You

• Hybrid working model (3 days per week in the office)
• Nearby parking available
• Expand your toolbox with our mentorship program and internal learning tools
• Pet friendly office
• Happy hours
• …and of course a fully stocked kitchen!
  
  

Please submit your CV in English

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.

Role

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.