Backend Developer at OpenWeb

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Founded in 2012, OpenWeb has over 350 employees between New York City, London, Paris, San Diego, and Tel Aviv. We are backed by world-class investors including Insight Partners, Index Ventures, AltaIR Capital, ScaleUp, and Norma Investments. We’re crafting technology that naturally brings people together and fosters healthy discussion—so they have more dinner-table talks and less shouting matches online. It starts with us. Let’s change the web. are you in?

About the role:

You will work directly with the Lead Core.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop new features on the various backend projects (RTB, adserver, tracking, indexing, metrics...) and maintain the existing ones while respecting the team's guidelines;

• Work continuously to optimize the performance (throughput, latency, etc.) of the various backend projects;

• Ensure the quality, evolution and scalability of deliverables (specifications and performance characteristics) during the development and production phases;

• Participate in the design of future backend projects and, more generally, in the architecture of Adyoulike's technological stack;

• Participate in the technical documentation of the various projects in which you will be involved;

• Participate in the implementation of unit and functional tests;

• Collaborate with the QA team during the validation phase of pre-production releases.

What You’ll Bring:

• Passionate and curious, you enjoy investigating a given problem;

• Ambitious and proactive;

• Highly autonomous.

• A first experience (minimum 3 years) on a backend project with important performance and/or scalability constraints;

• Excellent interpersonal skills (in both French and English) and ability to communicate easily with a team;

  The following skills:

• You are familiar with the GO language (goroutines, chans and sync);

• You know (have already used within a project) at least one of the following NoSQL technologies: Aerospike, Redis, ScyllaDB but also SQL : Postgres ;

• You know how Kafka works;

• You are familiar with microservices infras (gRPC is a plus);

• You are familiar with git workflows;

• Knowledge of digital advertising is a plus.