About the role

Role overview

Join Hopper as a Senior Backend Ads Engineer (HTS Media Services). You will design, build, and scale high-performance microservices that power ad serving, targeting, and bidding, ensuring strict low-latency and high availability.

Key missions

Contribute significantly to the design, construction, and scalability of high-throughput, low-latency services handling advertising requests.
Optimize system performance by identifying and eliminating bottlenecks to meet stringent latency requirements.
Act as a technical lead: mentor engineers, make architecture decisions, and set standards for high-quality, scalable code.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive technical excellence.

Requirements

Direct experience in ad tech or retail media, including familiarity with:
- Ad serving
- Real-time bidding (RTB)
- Ad campaign management
Proven experience designing and operating high-throughput, low-latency cloud services.
Strong experience with high-performance databases and caching systems.
Deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms.
Ownership mindset and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
5+ years of professional software development experience building distributed backend systems.

Nice-to-haves

Not specified.

About Hopper

Hopper is a travel technology company that operates in the travel industry. The role focuses on building backend microservices for ad serving, targeting, and bidding, indicating the company runs high-performance advertising infrastructure as part of its platform.

Senior Backend Ads Engineer (HTS Media Services)

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