Backend Engineer: Retail Media

About the Team

The Retail Media team is building a platform for connecting ecommerce retailers and brands. In a nutshell, retail media is the product that allows a brand to buy a placement within our customer’s search, browse, recommendations, collections, or quizzes results. A comprehensive retail media platform integrates seamlessly with online retailers, offering advanced targeting, bidding, and analytics capabilities. This platform aims to enhance ad visibility, optimize ad placement, and provide robust performance analytics. We're a passionate team of cross-functional engineers who love challenges and want to make people’s lives better. We value openness, curiosity, continuous improvement, and great code. We believe that empowering everyone in a company to do what they think is best can lead to great things.

The Retail Media team is new and looking for Senior engineers who will help us build backend services, integrate with data warehouse and other services managing results order, and more.

About the Job

The primary focus of this job is to design, deliver & maintain web services in close collaboration with other engineers.

• Build / deploy / support services using Python and FastAPI

• Write AWS CloudFormation scripts, Jenkins jobs, Github actions following best industry standards

• Set up service observability, monitoring metrics, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, AWS CloudWatch)

• Implement CI/CD pipelines and separate stability testing

• Collaborate with technical and non-technical business partners to develop / update functionalities

• Communicate with stakeholders within and outside the team

Requirements

• Strong computer science background & familiarity with networking principles.

• Experience in designing, developing & maintaining highload real-time services.

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation or Terraform for managing cloud resources.

• Hands-on experience with setting up and improving CI/CD pipelines.

• Proficiency in Python.

• Experience in server-side coding for web services, and a good understanding of API design principles.

• Skilled in setting up and managing observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and integrating alert systems like PagerDuty.

• Familiarity with Service-Oriented Architecture, knowledge of communication protocols like protobuf.

• Experience with NoSQL and relational databases, distributed systems, and caching solutions (MySQL/PostgreSQL, ClickHouse/Athena).

• Experience with any of the major public cloud service providers: AWS, Azure, GCP.

• Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams.

• Excellent English communication skills.

• Ideal candidate has previous experience building ad tech solutions.

• We're looking for someone who can overlap with 11:00–16:00 UTC — to keep collaboration smooth across time zones.

Benefits

• 🏝️ Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year

• 🌎 Fully remote team - choose where you live

• 🛋️ Work from home stipend! We want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office

• 💻 Apple laptops provided for new employees

• 🧑‍🎓 Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year

• 👪 Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees

• 🧠 Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact

• 💵 Base salary: $80k–$120k USD, depending on knowledge, skills, experience, and interview results

• 📈 Stock options - offered in addition to the base salary

• 🎉 Regular team offsites to connect and collaborate