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Senior Backend Engineer (Java, Go)

  • Hybrid
    • Bangalore, Karnātaka, India
  • Engineering

Job description

Who We Are
Verve Group has created a more efficient and privacy-focused way to buy and monetize advertising. Verve Group is an ecosystem of demand and supply technologies fusing data, media, and technology together to deliver results and growth to both advertisers and publishers–no matter the screen or location, no matter who, what, or where a customer is. With 13 offices across the globe and with an eye on servicing forward-thinking advertising customers, Verve Group’s solutions are trusted by more than 90 of the United States’ top 100 advertisers, 4,000 publishers globally, and the world’s top demand-side platforms. Verve Group is a subsidiary of Media and Games Invest (MGI). Learn more at www.verve.com.


About this job

In this role, your main focus would be on our backend engineering projects

  • maintaining and improving real-time data processing services

  • designing, developing, and maintaining ETL pipelines

  • developing and maintaining data warehousing solutions

  • sustaining, maintaining, and improving existing services and libraries


What You Will Do

  • Produce quality code and raise the bar for team performance

  • Collaborate with various platform/runtime backend team(s) to provide high-quality deliverables

  • Communicate regularly with stakeholders, project managers, and quality assurance teams

  • Design and develop scalable, maintainable, and secure software architecture for backend systems, including APIs, microservices, and data storage solutions

  • Create detailed architectural blueprints and collaborate with cross-functional teams to align with business goals

  • Ensure performance, scalability, and security, while continuously optimizing and updating the architecture to incorporate new technologies and best practices

  • Assess technical feasibility and operational constraints to discover our platform’s potential

Job requirements

What You Will Bring

  • 5+ years of experience working as a Backend Engineer (preferably in advertising)

  • Experienced in delivering interdisciplinary data science products in production covering design and implementation across backend, data, and ML stacks

  • A postgraduate degree in a relevant field (e.g. Computer Science, IT Engineering)

  • Experience with developing or fostering high-performance distributed systems

  • Enthusiasm for solving interesting business problems

  • Technical know-how:

    • Min. 5 years with J2EE (Spring)

    • Min. 3 years with Go

    • Min. 5 years with relational- and non-relational databases (BigQuery, Postgresql, ScyllaDB, Redis)

    • Min. 3 years of Cloud experience with GCP and AWS (Kubernetes experience)

    • Airflow/Spark

    • CD/CI experience

    • GitHub

The following experience is welcome:

  • 3+ years developing code in Python

  • ML Ops Tools and common ML libraries


What We Offer

  • Join one of the top privacy-first omnichannel ad platforms and gaming companies

  • Be part of a multicultural team (55+ nationalities) that is bringing advertising to the next level

  • Benefit from working with some of the most experienced professionals in our industry and constantly grow with us

  • You will learn and evolve in an empowering environment characterized by entrepreneurial actions

  • Responsibility, independence, and an opportunity to participate in projects that have a significant impact on Verve Group’s success

  • 3 Wellness days per year to help you maintain your well-being (in Q1, Q2 and Q3 after min. 90 days of employment)

  • Enhance your professional skills with a yearly training budget and improve your language skills through German and/or English classes.

  • Work and Travel Program (monthly raffle after 2 years of employment)

  • We are happy to build a great team together and we appreciate your help through our Employee Referral Bonus

  • Align your interests with the company's success and take part in our Employee Shares Purchase Plan

  • You will be entitled to 19 holidays per year in addition to any of the public/bank holidays

  • Personalized Benefits Platform; with a budget of 4100 INR/month, you can choose the benefits that fit you best from the following options:

    •  Mobility and travel

    • Entertainment and food

    • Fitness and health care

  • Enjoy food and beverage benefits with colleagues and have fun during team events

  • Medical insurance for self and family

Verve Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.


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