Job Summary: As an SDE-II, you’ll build backend systems that power the most critical moments in a user’s journey — from opening the app, to experiencing personalized, dynamic content, to experiencing. Your primary focus will be on scaling our platform infrastructure, architecting a state-of-the-art compositor engine, and evolving a multi-widget, server-driven layout system that constructs rich, adaptive pages across all devices. You’ll help ensure that hundreds of millions of users enjoy fast, seamless, and always-on experiences, no matter the time, traffic, or device.
Key Responsibilities
Own scale-critical paths, ensuring the system can handle peak concurrency, multi-region delivery, and freshness guarantees.Build the infrastructure & capabilities that serves as the orchestration layer between downstream services and client apps — enabling faster experimentation, seamless rollouts, that works for every device & platform out there.Develop the Compositor Engine that fetches and ranks content blocks (widgets/cards), merges metadata, and serves highly contextualised page definitions to clients in milliseconds.Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Frontend teams on use cases like personalized feeds, layouts, and dynamic page composition.Improve latency, throughput, and observability across all surfaces where UI is driven from the server — including Homepage, Watch pages, and Detail views.Contribute to platform primitives that are used by every other team — including layout DSLs, contract validation, fallback mechanisms, and preview tooling.Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and on-call rotations, maintaining high service reliability even during peak traffic.Continuously evaluate relevant technologies and influence architecture and design discussions Guides and mentors juniors on functional attributes and domain knowledge
Skills and attributes for success:
Strong coding skills (Java)Experience designing and building distributed systems at scale.Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred, AWS Mediaservices experience is a plus), messaging systems (e.g., Kafka)Proven ability to work autonomously in fast-paced environments, manage priorities, and deliver high-impact resultsInterest in advertising technologies and optimizing systems for user and business outcomes
Preferred education and experience:
Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field with 2-4 years of experience in backend development.
