Lead Senior Backend Engineer

Posted 14 Days Ago
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Barcelona, Cataluña
In-Office
Senior level
AdTech
The Role
The Lead Senior Backend Engineer will design and maintain backend systems, write efficient code, manage cloud infrastructure, and lead a team to ensure platform reliability and performance.
Summary Generated by Built In

Adwake is a tech-enabled services company powered by Entravision. At Adwake, we place cutting-edge technology and quality service at the heart of our approach to effectively find, connect with, and engage your ideal customer across every screen. With a global reach, we adapt to meet each client’s unique marketing needs. Our solutions combine data-driven insights, machine learning technologies, impactful digital media capabilities, and results-oriented platforms, always focusing on customer care and long-term business growth.

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Senior Backend Engineer to architect, develop, and maintain the backend infrastructure for our high-availability offerwall platform. You will lead a team of engineers, design robust systems, and ensure the platform's scalability, reliability, and performance using modern cloud technologies.

What You’ll Do:
  • System Architecture: Design and implement scalable, high-availability backend systems to support the offerwall platform, ensuring low latency and high throughput.
  • Development: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code in Java to build APIs, microservices, and backend components.
  • Cloud Infrastructure: Leverage AWS services to deploy and manage cloud-based infrastructure.
  • Container Orchestration: Manage and optimize containerized workloads using Amazon EKS for high availability and scalability.
  • Monitoring & Observability: Implement and maintain monitoring solutions using Grafana to ensure system health, performance, and proactive issue resolution.
  • Cluster Management: Use Headlamp and Argocd to manage and visualize Kubernetes clusters, ensuring smooth operations and efficient resource utilization.
  • Infrastructure as Code: Define and manage infrastructure using Terraform to ensure consistency, repeatability, and scalability of deployments.
  • High Availability: Ensure the platform meets strict uptime and performance SLAs, implementing fault-tolerant and resilient systems.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with frontend engineers and product teams to deliver cohesive and reliable solutions.
  • Code Quality: Conduct code reviews, enforce best practices, and maintain high standards for security, performance, and scalability.
What you need to have:
  • Experience: 8+ years of backend development experience, with at least 3 years in a lead or senior role.
  • Java Expertise: Strong proficiency in Java (Spring Boot preferred) for building RESTful APIs and microservices.
  • AWS Cloud: Hands-on experience with AWS services.
  • Kubernetes: Deep knowledge of Amazon EKS for deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications.
  • MongoDB: Strong experience with MongoDB, including schema design, indexing, and performance optimization for high-traffic applications.
  • Monitoring: Experience with Grafana for creating dashboards and monitoring system metrics.
  • Kubernetes Management: Familiarity with Headlamp or similar tools for Kubernetes cluster visualization and management.
  • Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency in Terraform for defining and provisioning cloud infrastructure.
  • High Availability: Proven experience designing and maintaining high-availability systems with minimal downtime.
  • Leadership: Ability to lead and mentor a team, with strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills to troubleshoot complex issues and optimize system performance.
  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
Nice-to-Have:
  • Experience with other monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, CloudWatch).
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Github actions).
  • Experience with offerwall or ad-tech platforms.
Why Join Us?
  • Work on a high-impact, high-availability platform serving millions of users.
  • Collaborate with a talented and passionate team in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
  • Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and flexible remote work options.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and leadership in cutting-edge technologies.

 What We Offer

  • 🚀 Exciting challenges and opportunities for growth
  • Ticket Restaurant 
  • Wellbeing and gym membership
  • Breakfast, Fruit & Snacks at the office
  • Monthly team Events
  • Work Anniversary Celebrations
  • Gift Cards for special occasions
  • Referral Program 
  • 💻  Hybrid work format, combining remote and in-office work 2 times a week (Tuesday and Thursday) or fully remote.

Top Skills

AWS
Eks
Grafana
Java
Kubernetes
MongoDB
Spring Boot
Terraform
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The Company
HQ: Santa Monica, CA
161 Employees
Year Founded: 1996

What We Do

We are a leading global advertising, media, and ad-tech solutions company connecting brands to consumers by representing top platforms and publishers.

Our services are anchored by a world-class sales operation, healthy financials, and unique commercial partnerships with industry leaders such as TelevisaUnivision, Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Grab, among others. Our service portfolio enables high-performance campaigns while using highly competitive audience reach, cutting-edge mobile programmatic solutions, machine-learned bidding algorithms, and demand-side platforms on a global scale.
Entravision’s global commercial footprint is anchored by strategic regional operations in the US, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. These branches forge strong client relationships, robust sales operations, and a common globalized corporate culture.
We serve more than 4,500 technology and consumer brand clients, targeting more than 3 billion consumers around the world with a combined GDP of $36 trillion dollars.
Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, USA. shares of Entravision Class A Common Stock trade on The New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol: EVC.

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