Senior Backend Engineer, Taboola News

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Tel Aviv
Hybrid
Senior level
AdTech • Big Data • Digital Media • Marketing Tech
Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social.
The Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Taboola News, you will develop and maintain large-scale distributed systems, handle real-time big data operations, and take ownership of product development from design to deployment. You'll work on various products affecting millions of users, while mentoring team members and collaborating in a dynamic environment.
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Curious about what it’s like to work at the world’s number 1 discovery platform? We’re glad you asked!

Taboola, the world’s largest content recommendation platform, is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for the Taboola News group.

What are some of the things you do on a day-to-day basis?

  • Develop one of the largest real time big data operation in the world to support over 140TB of new data every day
  • Have end to end ownership: Design, build, ship, measure and maintain our products for the biggest OEMs in the world.
  • Work in a mini-startup environment where you are involved in every aspect of the product development lifecycle, from design to implementation, testing, deployment, KPI measurements and product iterations.
  • Work on Taboola News’ products such as: Content Recommendation, Monetization, Personalization and much more which influence millions of users worldwide.

Our Tech Stack:

Java, Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, Vertica, MySQL, HDFS, BigQuery, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Airflow, Spark, Redis

What are the skills a Software Engineer needs to have?

  • 6+ years programming experience in Java or equivalent Object-Oriented language (preferably Java + Spring)
  • BSc in computer science or equivalent 
  • Experienced in designing and developing large scale distributed systems
  • Deep understanding and strong Computer Science fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures, applications programming and multithreading programming
  • Able to technically lead and mentor other team members

Why Taboola? 

  • Taboola is the world’s leading recommendation platform reaching over 500 million daily active users. We’re growing rapidly, and have recently gone public on the NASDAQ.
  • Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.”
  • If you ask our employees what they love about Taboola they will tell you that here, they are able to discover their best professional selves, explore where they can grow to, and learn from and together with smart and talented people.
  • At Taboola, we pride ourselves in making an impact on how people consume content across the world, a culture of transparency, passion, and a diverse, inclusive and friendly work environment. 
  • You can get to know us more by visiting our company website, careers site, Taboola Life blog and social media channels; Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn 


Sounds good, how do I apply? 

It’s easy, submit your CV by clicking the “Apply” button below.



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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
1,900 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.

Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.

Why Work With Us

Taboola is the best of both worlds: We're an established public company but operate like a startup! Our DTLA office is a tech-hub and sales office. You'll be surrounded by passionate and like-minded Engineers and Data Scientists working on large scale projects and Big Data, as well as Media sales professionals of all levels.

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

Taboola offers team members flexibility, we offer the ability to work remotely two days a week, a flexible time off policy (no need to accrue days off and no cap on how many vacation days you can take) & a very generous paid family leave policy!

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
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