Senior Backend Engineer

AppsFlyer; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Paid vacation days

Meals Reimbursement

Sport Reimbursement

Breakfast in the office

Mental health program

Team building activities

Paid sick days

Snacks and beverages

Mac laptop with two monitors

Job summary

AppsFlyer’s Analytics group builds the stories hidden in data through complex aggregations, analytical databases, and API access. We blend back-end, data, AI, and front-end engineering to deliver our analytics suite at scale.

Join a team that thrives on production-grade systems and delivering insights to clients around the world. As a Data-Oriented Backend Engineer, you will lead backend/data direction, architect end-to-end data features, and collaborate with product teams to ship robust,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development with a focus on backend/data systems.
• Experience in data engineering with Apache Spark (Scala/py-spark).
• Experience with high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• Excellent English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend and data direction of the team to support frontend engineers.
• Develop end-to-end features from data processing to modeling and databases.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to deliver complex products.
• Analyze and improve performance, scalability, and reliability of systems.

Skills

5+ years of development experience

Data engineering with Apache and Scala

High throughput distributed systems

Great communication skills in English

Education

B.Sc. in Computer Sciences or an equivalent

Tools

Airflow

BigQuery

Job description

AppsFlyer is known for its massive backend production.
At any given moment thousands of servers are consuming 150+ billion mobile app events, crunching our users’ data, serving requests and communicating on a massive scale.

To maintain the universe we call AppsFlyer, we practice modern production operations with a complete self-serve CI/CD platform, a highly integrated observability stack for our micro-services, backends, and infrastructure, a culture of ownership and eagerness for quality.

The Analytics group is responsible for showing our clients the stories their data is telling. Through complex aggregation, mission tailored analytical databases and carefully crafted APIs we are able to provide slice and dice analysis in our beautiful dashboards and through the use of external integrations.
Our group mixes disciplines from back-end, data, AI and front-end engineers and we’re looking for great Data-Oriented Backend Engineer developers that are passionate about what they do, who want to dive into the worlds of big data, microservices and production management at our scale, to help us reach our vision and goal: to be the best analytics suite in our business market.

What you'll do

• Lead the backend and data direction of our team, and grow its backend and data capabilities to support our frontend-oriented engineers
• Develop end-to-end, both client-facing and data infrastructure features, from data processing to database choice and modeling implementation
• Collaborate with product managers and software engineers to deliver complex products.
• Analyze and improve performance, scalability and stability of our systems, environments and tools.
• If you're up to the challenge - Speak at meetups, write blog posts, speak at conferences, contribute to existing open source projects and release new open source software.

What you have

• 5+ years of development experience with a passion for excellence
• Experience in data engineering with a focus on Apache and Scala-Spark / py-spark)
• Experience with high throughput, low latency, mission-critical distributed systems
• Great communication skills in English
• B.Sc. in Computer Sciences or an equivalent.

Bonus Points

• Experience with large-scale production databases
• Experience with Airflow
• Strong server-side skills.
• Experience production grade BigQuery ETL and DBs.
• Experience with production grade GO BE services.
• Experience with production grade Clojure BE services.
• An “AI mindset”: stays up to date with the AI landscape, explores tools like Cursor or GitHub Copilot, and looks for ways to boost productivity through AI
• Recommended by an AppsFlyer employee

Benefits Package includes:

• Health Insurance
• Paid Unlimited Vacation Days + all national holidays + additional recharge days
• Meals Reimbursement
• Sport Reimbursement
• Breakfast in the office
• Mental health program
• Team building, happy hours, and other team activities
• Paid sick days
• Snacks, fruits & ice cold beer
• All new team members are provided with a brand-new Mac laptop with 2 monitors and a Starter package

Position number - 2945

As a global company operating from 25 offices across 19 countries, we reflect the human mosaic of the diverse and multicultural world in which we live. We ensure equal opportunities for all of our employees and promote the recruitment of diverse talents to our global teams without consideration of race, gender, culture, or sexual orientation. We value and encourage curiosity, diversity, and innovation from all our employees, customers, and partners.

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