Staff Software Engineer

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our engineering team in Tel Aviv. Discovery is a Big Data / AI platform that helps the world’s largest brands understand what matters to their audiences - combining web, video, and social content with TV and commercial viewership data.

What You’ll Do

• Plan, implement, and take full ownership of core features across Discovery’s backend services (audience targeting, keyword-association search, and the core management API), owning the entire development cycle.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, TSE, and DevOps on design and architecture decisions.
• Work on the audience-activation layer that bridges Discovery’s audience data to downstream targeting systems, including TV, streaming, and commercial viewership signals.
• Participate in refactoring system components and modernizing the stack to improve performance and stability.
• Lead and mentor other developers, providing guidance on complex, cross-service projects.
  
  

What will I bring?

• 10+ years of experience in developing complex enterprise web applications
  
  

and distributed systems in production.

• Deep understanding in Java programming (Spring Boot/Spring- A must!)
• Experience with designing and implementing architecture web systems.
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases (MySql,
  
  

Elasticsearch, Redis, Vertica).

• Experience in modern UI frameworks (Angular, Vue, React) - advantage!
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• A highly motivated team player with a strong “can-do” attitude and great
  
  

interpersonal skills.

• A self-starter that can work independently and multi-task effectively.
• Passionate and eager to learn new technologies.
• BSc in Computer Science or equivalent.
  
  

Nice To Have

• Ruby expertise (Sinatra/Rails-style frameworks, ActiveRecord).
• Experience with GraphQL API designa.
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure such as AWS.
  
  

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