R&D Team Leader

Job description

Are you a passionate and driven leader seeking your next high-impact challenge? The Audience Extension (Audex) team is looking for a Team Leader to help drive one of Taboola’s most strategic growth areas — enabling advertisers to reach new audiences beyond our owned-and-operated network.

About the Opportunity Imagine empowering Taboola’s advertisers to extend their reach to premium placements in the open web and even in closed gardens. This is the core mission of the Audex team - tapping into massive new revenue streams by buying indirect inventory via RTB, all while optimizing at scale for performance and profitability.

Who We’re Looking For ( You’re someone who):

  • Business-minded and data-driven, with a strong product sense
  • Thrives in a dynamic environment and knows how to execute effectively
  • Brings an entrepreneurial mindset and a hands-on approach
  • Has exceptional analytical skills and a deep technical foundation
  • Is passionate about mentoring and team building

To thrive in this role, you’ll need:

  • 2+ years of experience managing engineers or leading large-scale projects
  • 4+ years of hands-on backend development in Java or a similar OOP language
  • Proven track record in designing and building large-scale distributed systems
  • Solid CS fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures, multi-threaded programming
  • Experience with SQL, NoSQL, and Big Data tools
  • BSc in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Familiarity with agile development methodologies

How you’ll make an impact:

As a Team Leader for Audience Extension (Audex), you’ll bring value by:

  • Lead a team of highly skilled backend engineers building infrastructure and features used by thousands of sites and over 1.4 billion users globally
  • Drive strategic integrations with off-network and closed-garden environments
  • Work closely with key stakeholders across Product, Business, and PS (Professional Services) to align bidder-related initiatives and ensure end-to-end execution
  • Own and scale systems handling 500K+ requests per second, generating over 100TB of new data daily
  • Utilize a cutting-edge tech stack including Java 8, Spring, Reactor Core, Spark, Cassandra, Kafka, MySQL, Vertica, Kubernetes, Grafana, Tableau, and more
  • Collaborate with experienced tech leads, engineers, and product managers to define the team’s roadmap and technical vision
  • Foster a culture of growth, accountability, and continuous improvement - with a strong focus on team productivity and personal development

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, 401k, 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: 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.-

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. 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.

By submitting your application/CV, any personal information you provide will be subject to Taboola’s Employee Data Policy. Please review our policy carefully before submitting any of your personal information. You may contact us at [email protected] with any questions about how we collect or use your personal information, or your applicable rights.

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