Backend Team Lead

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Paris, Île-de-France
Hybrid
5-7 Years Experience
AdTech • Marketing Tech
Fulfilling the Promise of AdTech
The Role
The Backend Team Lead at Equativ will guide a team of Software Engineers, focusing on designing, building, and optimizing bidding and ad delivery engines. Responsibilities include overseeing feature quality, engaging in architecture discussions, and fostering team spirit while encouraging autonomy and innovation.
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👫 About the team


At Equativ, we’re on a mission to develop advertising technologies that empower our customers to reach their digital business goals. This means that we rely on massively scalable, widely distributed, highly available, and efficient software systems; the platform deals with over 3 millions requests per second managed by 3,000 servers.


Our innovation team based in Paris, Nantes, Limoges, Krakow and Berlin is composed of 100+ straightforward and energetic engineers working in an Agile environment and ready to tackle the most complex technical challenges.


The mission👇


You will join our fast-growing R&D team based in Paris on a mission to build, organize and develop our SSP Engineering team that works on our bidding and ad delivery engines. You'll report directly to our Backend Engineering Manager based in Paris.

What you'll do ✏️

  • Lead and develop a team of Software Engineers that have a passion for scale and performance. Be responsible for designing and implementing a strategic plan with your team to develop, build and optimize our engines and platform
  • Work closely with R&D Management to give vision to your team, as well as gather and translate requirements into realistic technical solutions
  • Assess quality of produced features by monitoring and tests, reviewing code to ensure maintainability, checking processes and documentation
  • Participate actively to the team spirit, be a role model for your team, supporting both the technical vision of the company and the growth and performance of your team members
  • Demonstrate strong interest to work on performance & optimization topics
  • Use remaining time and your strong development skills: 
  • - To take part to architecture discussions to boost global engine performance

    - To participate to the day to day scope of the team: Design, develop, deploy and maintain scalable and highly available solutions for our platforms engines 

  • Innovate and learn in autonomy during our Smart days

About you 💪

  • 5+ years of software development experience on a Microsoft stack (C# .NET) and familiar with caches and microservices
  • Experience in managing and leading engineering teams
  • Strong interest in new technologies (Aerospike, Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana, Kubernetes, Nuget, Xunit, GitLab, SonarQube, GCP, AWS) and large-scale technical stacks
  • Entrepreneurial spirit and know-how to identify opportunities of improvement 
  • Personal projects with code sharing, we’re curious about your art!

👋 About us 

Equativ is the new single name for Smart Adserver, DynAdmic, LiquidM and Nowtilus — four proven innovators in advertising technology. The vertically integrated company provides brand and privacy-safe solutions that empower its clients to achieve maximum impact while respecting the rights of consumers. The union combines client expertise and engineering excellence to serve the interests of both the supply- side and demand-side with equal professionalism and technical sophistication.


Headquartered in Paris and New York, Equativ operates globally with a team of more than 550 people in 20 offices. Equativ offers the market its own independent ad server, SSP, buyer tools, and media services to fulfill the promise of advertising technology. Learn more at Equativ.com.


The company is ranked on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA and in the Financial Times’ FT 1000: Europe’s Fastest-Growing Companies.


Equativ (formerly Smart AdServer) has been awarded the HappyIndex@Work label and is proud to be among the best companies in the ChooseMyCompany ranking, recognized for its flexible working environment.


Come and lead the charge with us in building a transparent ecosystem based on quality!


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Equativ is an equal opportunity employer. Equal access to employment, services, and programs are available to everyone, regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. If you require reasonable accommodation throughout the application and/or interview process, please contact the recruitment team at [email protected]

Top Skills

C#

What the Team is Saying

Amy Bornong
Mehdi Zeroual
Allison Obiso
The Company
HQ: Paris
550 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2001

What We Do

As a leading independent ad tech platform, we provide brand and privacy-safe solutions that empower our clients to achieve maximum results. We offer the market an independent ad server, SSP, buyer tools, media services, and more.



This combination of engineering excellence and client expertise helps us serve the interests of both the supply-side and the demand-side with equal professionalism and technical sophistication. 



And, as we work toward fulfilling on the promise of advertising technology, we also keep the consumer and their rights in mind in all we do

Our objective? Disrupt the digital advertising industry through high-performance solutions, innovative formats, and exceptional quality.

Our pride? A global and diverse team that flourishes through a corporate culture advocating ownership and who live through three essential values: Be brave, Be thoughtful, Be together.

Why Work With Us

Accelerate your career. Our global training events, online training courses, and fantastic people leaders offer unlimited opportunities to develop and grow your career.
Take a break. When you work hard we know you also need to rest. We offer generous time off and parental leave policies, as well as mental health and wellness activities.

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Equativ Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Typical time on-site: Flexible
HQParis, FR
SG
Berlin, DE
Bogotá, CO
Dubai, Dubai
Düsseldorf, DE
Kraków, PL
Limoges, FR
London, GB
Madrid, ES
Mexico City, MX
Milan, IT
Nantes, FR
New York, NY
São Paulo, BR
Sophia Antipolis, FR
Warsaw, PL
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