Senior Backend Engineer

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company! As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Backend team in our Taipei Office , you’ll play a vital role in building the foundational systems that power content understanding for the entire organization . You will create the robust backbone that enables every team to leverage Generative AI. You will operate with the agility of a startup to deliver powerful, scalable solutions and directly shape how the company innovates with AI. To thrive in this role, you'll need: 7+ years of hands-on coding experience in Java or similar object oriented programming languages. Deep understanding of strong Computer Science fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures, applications programming and multi threading programming. Experience with SQL and No-SQL, ex: MySQL, Vertica, Cassandra, Google BigQuery. Experience with common frameworks: Spring, Maven, Kafka, Apache Spark. Proven experience in building and managing data pipelines and distributed systems. Thorough understanding of backend integration concepts and technologies such as API, web services, message queuing, and security practices. Quick and self-motivated learner with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues. Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in both team and cross-timezone environments. Bonus points if you have: Well understanding of common design patterns and engineering best practices. Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies like Kubernetes and Helm. Experience with workflow automation tools like Apache Airflow. Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins. Familiarity with modern development practices such as Agile methodologies and DevOps principles. How you'll make an impact: As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will: Technical Leadership: Acting as a key technical leader for the group, guiding the architecture and design of complex, business-critical systems. Hands-On Excellence: Driving development by being hands-on, personally writing code for the most complex and critical system components and setting a high bar for code quality and best practices. Strategic Scalability: Driving the technical strategy for building highly scalable and reliable solutions to process massive datasets and ensure system stability. Democratizing AI: You will architect the centralized access layer that allows every service in the organization to integrate with Large Language Models safely and efficiently. Powering the Content Engine: You will own the high-throughput content data infrastructure that ingests, processes, and serves the fundamental data powering our recommendations. Automating Quality: You will co-own the pipelines responsible for automated Ad Quality, ensuring millions of recommendations meet strict safety standards without human intervention. End-to-End Ownership: You will take full responsibility for the lifecycle of your services—from initial architectural design and hands-on coding to deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, handling incidents and ensuring production reliability. 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, a fully stocked kitchen, and location-specific perks. 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, Expedi