Senior Software Engineer, Backend Development

<p><strong>About Appier&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Appier (TSE: 4180) is an&nbsp;<span style="color: #0000ff;">AI-native Agentic AI as a Service (AaaS) company</span>&nbsp;that empowers businesses to create value through cutting-edge AdTech and MarTech solutions. Founded in 2012 with the vision of&nbsp;“Making AI Easy by Making Software Intelligent,”&nbsp;Appier helps businesses turn AI into ROI through its Ad Cloud, Personalization Cloud, and Data Cloud—each powered by Agentic AI that enables autonomous, adaptive, and real-time decision-making. Today, Appier operates 17 offices across APAC, the US, and EMEA, and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Learn more at<a href="http://www.appier.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.appier.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1772524763166000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2VstxLR9Gjx8R3vPf40kL6">&nbsp;www.appier.com</a>.<br><br></span></p> <p><strong>About the role</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Software engineers at Appier build a wide range of platforms and services that interconnect data and AI with our customers and users. As a </span><strong>Senior Software Engineer, Backend Development</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">, you will design and build scalable and performant backend architecture, own and drive the technical roadmap for sizable projects or services, mentor junior engineers, and facilitate high performance agile teams collaborating with cross-functional teams.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Key owner of sizable engineering projects and services</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lead system designs and provide technical guidance to team members.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mentor engineers in cross-team development processes.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lead code reviews to ensure high quality coding standards</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Facilitate agile process collaborating with cross-functional teams.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Initiate and lead team-level technical, process and growth initiatives</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Continuously improve the system's observability, incident management, DevOps and production operational SOPs.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Develop and operate scalable, reliable and maintainable service-based softwares and related components.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Responsible for laying the foundation for the platform as well as proposing solutions to ease software development, monitoring of software, etc.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Profiling and performance tuning of critical components</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Participate in idea brainstorming and contribute ideas to technology, algorithms and products</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Participate on-call rotation within Backend team to ensure product reliability and scalability</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong>About you&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[Minimum qualifications]</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">5+ years of experience in software development</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leadership experiences such as mentoring junior engineers, facilitating an agile process.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ability to build web services on Linux.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Proficient in one or more of the following languages: Pyt</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">hon/Scala/Go/Java/C++</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Good knowledge of Network API Design ( e.g. REST or GraphQL).</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Good understanding of any SQL/NoSQL database (MySQL / MongoDB / Redis / etc.)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Familiar with git.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Familiar with AWS, GCP or Azure.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Proactive, good interpersonal and problem-solving skills.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[Preferred qualifications]</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related field.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Technical leadership experiences</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Good at profiling and debugging tools.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">High performance network service on Linux.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Design and architect large scale distributed systems.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Design and implement distributed algorithms and data structure.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Expert in some of the following CS Domains:</span></li> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nginx / HAProxy.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Operation automation tool (such as Ansible).</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Continuous integration / continuous deployment</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monitoring and alert system (Prometheus / Nagios).</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Functional programming.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Data Intensive Application Design.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Web Frontend and Javascript.</span></li> </ul> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>#LI-AK1</p>