Senior Product Engineer - Ads

The Senior Product Engineer, combines deep technical expertise with strong ownership of initiatives to drive end-to-end delivery of key projects (epics). This role not only develops and maintains scalable backend services but also ensures the successful execution of complex missions, balancing technical excellence, business impact, advertising performance and timely delivery.

As a Product Engineer in our advertising platform, you will collaborate closely with product managers, tech leads, and other stakeholders, acting as the technical driver for your epic. You will define scope, manage dependencies, align teams, and ensure on-time, high-quality delivery.

What You’ll Do

• Own end-to-end development of ad-related services (APIs, micro-services, data pipelines).

• Drive performance, scalability, and reliability to efficiently handle advertising traffic measured in thousands of requests per second.

• Collaborate with product, data, and advertising operations team on feature design and delivery.

• Champion clean architecture, automated testing, and continuous deployment.

• Monitor, debug, and improve production systems

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Execution

● Own and lead the execution of epics from planning to deployment.

● Design and maintain scalable, high-performance backend systems.

● Ensure clean code, robust API design, and optimized database performance.

● Challenge existing technical stacks and approaches to optimize delivery, performance and quality.

● Use AI-powered tooling to improve code quality, automation, and productivity. ● Own your systems. Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve production issues.

Ownership & Delivery

● Drive the technical design, roadmap and execution of large-scale advertising initiatives.

● Ensure cross-team collaboration to align architecture, dependencies, and scalability.

● Balance speed and long-term technical health, proactively addressing technical debt.

● Define and track success metrics to ensure epics deliver measurable business value.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

● Act as a technical partner to product owners, helping define and refine requirements.

● Work with Frontend Engineers, DevOps, and QA to ensure seamless execution.

● Proactively communicate progress, risks, and technical challenges to stakeholders.

● Ensure effective documentation and knowledge sharing.

What You Need to Have

● Prior experience in advertisement tech, marketplaces, or other high-scale portals—and genuine curiosity and expertise in advertising technology.

● 5+ years in backend development (Java 17+, Kotlin).

● Proven ability to own and deliver large-scale projects (epics).

● Deep expertise in Spring Boot, Hibernate, SQL (performance tuning), and messaging systems (RabbitMQ) or similar

● Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS).

● Demonstrated strong problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

● Fluent English (B2 level or higher).

Nice to Have

● Experience with Redis, Elasticsearch, NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, or CI/CD pipelines.

● Experience to AI assisted tooling

● Experience with MongoDB