Taipei, Taiwan

Sr. Backend Engineer-Taiwan

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Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the R&D Team in our Taiwan office, you’ll play a vital role in designing and maintaining the robust systems that power our backend systems. You’ll build scalable data pipelines and backend services that process billions of daily requests, directly impacting how millions discover content worldwide.

To thrive in this role, you’ll need:

  • 5+ years coding experience in Java or similar OOP languages

  • Expertise with relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL, Vertica, Cassandra, Google BigQuery..)

  • Experience with distributed systems (Spring, Maven, Kafka, Apache Spark, Hadoop..)

  • Deep understanding of core data structures, common algorithms and algorithmic complexity (Big O notation).

  • Proven track record building and managing data pipelines

  • Proficiency with version control systems such as Git, CVS, or Subversion

Bonus points if you have:

  • Experience with Kubernetes and containerization

  • Knowledge of workflow automation (Airflow)

How you’ll make an impact:
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll bring value by:

  • Designing and developing high-performance backend services and improve Taboola’s recommendation Ad Quality infrastructure. 

  • Building and optimizing large-scale data pipelines

  • Writing clean, maintainable code following best practices

  • Conducting thorough code reviews

  • Troubleshooting and resolving system performance issues

  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams on technical solutions

Why Taboola?
If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:

Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.

Well-being: Enjoy comprehensive benefits, a fully stocked kitchen, and location-specific perks.
Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.
Work with some of the biggest names: We work with some of the biggest names in the business. Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, Expedia and Honda.

Ready to realize your potential?
Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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About Taboola
Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale. Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.

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