Job Title: Staff Backend Developer

Company Name: TouchTunes

Job Url: https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/octavegroup/CANDIDATEPORTAL/jobs/2127?src=jobright&jr_id=69b4b6c83b74eb1e2c82083d

Job Description: Staff Backend Developer

Location: USA

 

Your mission in the Backend team:


At TouchTunes, your work matters. We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to help design, scale, and harden our Ad Platform. This system powers real-time ad decisioning, partner integrations, and revenue-critical analytics across a distributed backend architecture. We are seeking a strong backend engineer first, with deep experience in Java or Go, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures. Ad-tech experience is a strong plus but not required. This is a senior individual contributor role with architectural influence and ownership over platform reliability, performance, and long-term evolution.

 

Your Day-To-Day:

Real-Time Backend Systems 

Design and build low-latency services in Java and/or Go
Architect real-time decisioning systems operating under strict timing constraints
Implement rule-based and algorithmic offer evaluation and partner prioritization
Design fallback strategies for degraded or slow external partners
Build resilient systems that protect revenue during “bad day” scenarios
 

Event-Driven Architecture & Data

Design and operate a Kafka-based streaming pipeline
Model and track high-volume events (impressions, fills, errors, playback, revenue signals)
Enable auditability from request through playback
Support analytics, yield analysis, and finance reconciliation workflows
 

Cloud-Native Infrastructure

Design and operate services on AWS
Leverage core AWS services (e.g., EKS, S3, EC2, managed
streaming/datastores)
Deploy and operate workloads in Kubernetes
Design scalable, fault-tolerant microservices
 

Reliability & Observability

Design for high availability and predictable performance under load
Implement caching strategies (in-memory, distributed, and edge-aware
where applicable)
Instrument services using OpenTelemetry
Build meaningful metrics, tracing, and logging pipelines
Monitor latency, partner performance, fill rate, and error patterns
Drive reliability improvements through measurable SLOs and
performance tuning
 

External Integrations & Ad Tech (Plus)

Integrate with external programmatic partners and SSPs
Manage timeouts, rate limits, and SLA variability
Familiarity with VAST, OpenRTB, RTB flows, or DOOH/CTV
environments is a plus
Contribute to building a scalable, vendor-agnostic decisioning platform
 

Technical Leadership

Operate as a Staff-level IC influencing architecture and engineering
standards
Lead complex design discussions
Mentor engineers and elevate backend reliability practices
Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Revenue stakeholders
 

 

Your profile:

8+ years backend engineering experience
Deep expertise in Java and/or Go
Strong distributed systems fundamentals
Experience with Kafka or comparable streaming systems
Production experience running services in Kubernetes
Strong familiarity with the AWS ecosystem
Experience building high-throughput, low-latency services
Demonstrated ownership of reliability and production excellence