Tech Lead / Staff Engineer (Big Data)

Adjust is the mobile marketing analytics platform trusted by growth-driven marketers around the world, with solutions for measuring and optimizing campaigns and protecting user data. Adjust powers thousands of apps with built-in intelligence and automation, backed by responsive global customer support. 

In 2021, Adjust was acquired by AppLovin, a leading marketing software company providing developers with a powerful, integrated set of solutions to grow their mobile apps.

Your role: 

As a Tech Lead / Staff Engineer, you will lead engineers serving best in class clients by developing and maintaining a public API directly used by our clients and our internal products. This is a high scale product! This API is querying and serving 5m/req/day from a 800TB database cluster distributed over 128 servers. You will be working in a small cross functional team focusing on offering a fast and customer focused experience to our clients.

Your responsibilities:

• Lead the process from specification to the code’s inception, its release and beyond
• Instigate architectural discussion in the team and make the decision around design choices
• Design and build new features
• Liaise with stakeholders from other departments and manage feedback
• Bring your engineering knowledge to help the team improve theirs
• Investigate issues and track down their source in the codebase
• Make sure peer led code reviews happen regularly to ensure high quality code
• Instrument code with metrics and logs to watch and monitor behaviour

What you bring:

• Track record of acting in leading roles for engineering teams building APIs serving lots of data (Rest or GraphQL)
• Experience in backend development (7+ years would be ideal) building software in type-safe languages (C, C++, Go, Java, Scala) 
• Experience designing and building asynchronous APIs
• Knowledge of Go on professional projects and understanding its trade offs
• Experience with PostgreSQL
• Communicate well within an Agile environment between different teams
• Good understanding of design patterns and different system architectures suitable for challenges arising from big data consumption/ processing
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to break down complex issues in a simple and understandable way 
• Great team player who loves to share knowledge and support colleagues within the team and the company
• Experience with distributed system design

Nice to have:

• Redis, Kafka, Aerospike, and git
• Experience with Google Big Query, Snowflake or Redshift 
• Basic understanding of Adjust's business and product 

What’s in it for you:

• Opportunity to make an impact on the ad-tech industry working for a forward-thinking leader in the space
• International, diverse teams with a strong focus on transparency, feedback and fun
• Education budget for ongoing professional development & continuous learning
• A three-week onboarding program like no other, where you’ll learn the ins-and-outs of our product (remotely and after the pandemic again onsite in our Berlin HQ)
• Flexible, family-friendly work schedule and vacation policy
• Childcare program, paid parental leave
• Free language classes
• Additional private health insurance
• Company Pension Plan with 40% employer contribution
• Discounted Gym Membership with Urban Sport 
• Mental health support with qualified therapists
• WFH program with remote online events (workouts, coffee chats, team events, games, etc.)
• Relocation and visa assistance

More details about our company culture and perks can be found on our career page, or have a sneak peek of our office in Berlin.

Interested? Let’s Talk!