# Backend Engineer

**Company**: Connexity, a Taboola company
**Location**: Santa Monica
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160,000-$185,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a skilled and motivated backend engineer to join our Internal Tools team. Our team owns the design and implementation of our next-generation internal tools platform , a new advertiser management platform that unifies several legacy systems under a single, modern foundation, with a focus on high-performance middleware and backend services.

You will play a central role in building this platform from the ground up: designing APIs and services, shaping the data model, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, high-performance solutions.

Responsibilities:

- Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend systems

- Develop APIs, microservices, and other server-side components that power platform features and functionality

- Contribute to the architecture and design of backend systems, ensuring solutions are reliable, scalable, and performant

- Design and optimize relational database schemas and queries that serve as the system of record for the platform

- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to define and implement new features and improvements

- Identify and troubleshoot complex technical issues, provide effective solutions, and optimize system performance

- Maintain high standards for code quality, including thorough testing, code reviews, and documentation

- Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies, evaluating and recommending new tools, frameworks, and libraries

Requirements:

- 6+ years of professional experience in backend development

- Proficiency in Java, with experience in Spring Boot

- Solid knowledge of RESTful API design, best practices, and implementation

- Strong expertise in relational databases, including schema design, query optimization, and data integrity

- Experience with AI-assisted development tools, such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to work effectively in a team environment

Benefits:

- Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision)

- Retirement Plan (401k Matching)

- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D), LTD & STD

- Paid Leave Benefits (Maternity, Paternity & Medical)

- Learning & Development Program

- Free Food & Snacks

- Wellness Resources

- Equity

The pay for this position is $160,000-$185,000 and depends on several factors such as location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The company offers a hybrid work arrangement, with two days per week in the Santa Monica office.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Spring Boot
- RESTful API design
- relational databases
- AI-assisted development tools

### Nice to have
- Python
- Node.js
- Go
- NoSQL databases
- analytical warehouses

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