adjoe

go developer in adtech

In short

Senior/lead-level Go backend role at an adtech company building real-time advertising decision systems and a rewarded ads platform used by 770M+ users annually. Requires 7+ years of backend development with deep production Go expertise in distributed environments, experience with Kafka/SQS/SNS/Kinesis-based microservice communication, database internals, and fluent English; the role involves architecture ownership, cross-squad standards, and mentoring senior engineers. Based in Hamburg, hybrid work mode, with relocation support offered.

About
adjoe builds technologies for mobile app growth and monetization. Its Playtime Arcade product is a rewarded advertising platform that connects advertisers and publishers with over 770 million users annually.
Responsibilities
•Architect and evolve distributed systems powering real-time advertising decisions
•Define service boundaries, concurrency models, and runtime optimizations for Go microservices
•Establish organization-wide standards for event streaming, schema evolution, and CDC patterns
•Standardize data patterns across distributed storage and lead zero-downtime database migrations and deprecations
•Partner with the Data Science team to build runtime infrastructure for predictive models and machine learning algorithms in the real-time ad targeting engine
•Drive alignment across squads through RFCs and Architecture Decision Records
•Define organization-level SLIs/SLOs and sponsor major technical migrations
•Mentor Senior engineers
Requirements
•7+ Years of backend development experience, including deep production Go expertise in distributed environments
•Extensive experience architecting asynchronous microservice communication using Kafka, SQS/SNS, or Kinesis
•Experience with database internals, distributed storage trade-offs, and low-level web standards
•Strong understanding of distributed systems trade-offs and applied mathematics
•Fluent spoken and written English
Nice to have
•Continuous profiling tools such as Pyroscope and goroutine dumps
•Chaos engineering drills
•Terraform
•Kubernetes
•AWS cloud networking
Conditions
•Relocation support to Hamburg, Germany is available

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