# Senior Backend Engineer

**Company**: AppsFlyer
**Location**: Kyiv
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/appsflyer/jobs/8905790002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

AppsFlyer is known for its massive backend production. At any given moment, thousands of servers are consuming 150+ billion mobile app events, crunching users' data, serving requests, and communicating on a massive scale.

The Analytics group is responsible for showing clients the stories their data is telling. Through complex aggregation, mission-tailored analytical databases, and carefully crafted APIs, we provide slice and dice analysis in our beautiful dashboards and through external integrations.

## What you'll do

- Lead the backend and data direction of our team, and grow its backend and data capabilities to support frontend-oriented engineers.

- Develop end-to-end features, from data processing to database choice and modeling implementation.

- Collaborate with product managers and software engineers to deliver complex products.

- Analyze and improve performance, scalability, and stability of our systems, environments, and tools.

- If you're up to the challenge, speak at meetups, write blog posts, contribute to existing open source projects, and release new open source software.

## What you have

- 5+ years of development experience with a passion for excellence.

- Experience in data engineering with a focus on Apache and Scala-Spark / py-spark.

- Experience with high throughput, low latency, mission-critical distributed systems.

- Great communication skills in English.

- B.Sc. in Computer Sciences or an equivalent.

## Bonus Points

- Experience with large-scale production databases.

- Experience with Airflow.

- Strong server-side skills.

- Experience with production-grade BigQuery ETL and DBs.

- Experience with production-grade GO BE services.

- Experience with production-grade Clojure BE services.

- An 'AI mindset': stays up to date with the AI landscape, explores tools like Cursor or GitHub Copilot, and looks for ways to boost productivity through AI.

- Recommended by an AppsFlyer employee.

## Benefits Package

- Health Insurance.

- Paid Unlimited Vacation Days + all national holidays + additional recharge days.

- Meals Reimbursement.

- Sport Reimbursement.

- Breakfast in the office.

- Mental health program.

- Team building, happy hours, and other team activities.

- Paid sick days.

- Snacks, fruits & ice cold beer.

- All new team members are provided with a brand-new Mac laptop with 2 monitors and a Starter package.

## Skills

### Required
- Apache
- Scala-Spark
- py-spark
- English

### Nice to have
- large-scale production databases
- Airflow
- GO BE services
- Clojure BE services
- BigQuery ETL and DBs

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