Job Description
Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!
As a Junior Backend Engineer on the Demand team in our Budapest office, you’ll contribute to the development, enhancement, and maintenance of highly scalable Taboola advertising systems. You’ll help build and scale one of the world’s largest real-time big data platforms, processing over 40TB of data daily, and work on the infrastructure behind our global recommendation engine, developing high-scale systems and tools that ensure reliability, scalability, and performance for millions of users worldwide.
To thrive in this role, you’ll need:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Professional Experience:1+ years in software development
- Backend Development: Proven experience with Java equivalent Object-Oriented language
- Software Principles: Understanding of object-oriented programming, design patterns, and clean code practice.
- Language: Technical level of English proficiency
- Experience working with AI tools and a good understanding of core AI concepts
- Agile Environment: Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives)
Bonus points if you have:
- Experienced with Spring and Kafka
- Frontend Development: Experienced with JavaScript and React.
Database Systems: Experience with SQL and NoSQL (mysql / Vertica / Cassandra)
How you’ll make an impact:
- Design and develop systems that empower Taboola’s advertisers to effectively manage their advertising budgets and optimize performance toward their business goals.
- Build scalable and reliable solutions to process and analyze vast amounts of data, enabling actionable insights for advertisers.
- Work on a large-scale, high-throughput recommendations system and influence the way billions of people discover the internet.
- Utilize one of the largest real-time big data operations in the world, consisting of over 140TB of new data every day.
- Have end-to-end ownership: design, build, ship, measure, and maintain our products for advertisers to achieve their campaign goals effectively and at scale.
- Collaborate with talented engineers, data scientists, and product managers to build innovative and impactful 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 (health, etc.), a fully stocked kitchen, and location-specific perks (gym partnerships, parking).
- 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: 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. Learn more about #TaboolaLife on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, & the Taboola Life Blog.
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.
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