Software Team Leader
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The Engagement team owns OneLink AppsFlyers deep linking and attribution link platform. Every OneLink click is a real user waiting: someone taps a link in an ad a social post an email or a QR code and within milliseconds we have to resolve the link record the engagement and send them to the right place. That means the app store the app itself or a specific in-app screen on the right platform in the right context.
The team sits at the very front of AppsFlyers ingestion path and handles millions of requests per second globally. Our services cover the full journey: OneLink and shortlink resolution redirection at the edge deferred deep linking for users who install first and deep link after social crawler link previews and delivery of clean engagement data onto Kafka for downstream attribution.
Were looking for a hands-on Software Team Leader to lead the Engagement team owning the architecture delivery and production health of the OneLink serving path.
Our stack is deliberately polyglot: Clojure Go Java and Node with the persistence layer chosen per problem across Kafka Redis/ElastiCache PostgreSQL DynamoDB and MongoDB. Everything runs on AWS (Kubernetes multi-region) behind CDNs at the edge
- Lead mentor and grow a team of senior backend engineers covering hiring career growth and honest feedback while staying personally hands-on in architecture design reviews and code.
- Own the end-to-end design of the OneLink serving path.
- Own the edge layer together with Infra including CDN strategy across branded and non-branded domain and edge compute.
- Own production including SLOs capacity and cost efficiency at scale and take part in the on-call rotation.
- Partner with Product Data and Infra to turn ambiguous requirements into a sequenced technical plan.
- Engineering experience: 5 years of software development experience with strong backend engineering skills.
- Leadership: 2 years directly managing a team of software engineers including hiring performance and growth conversations.
- High scale in production: Proven track record designing building and operating high-throughput low-latency distributed systems.
- Cloud: Strong proficiency with AWS (or GCP/Azure) and modern deployment practice including containers Kubernetes IaC and CI/CD.
- Polyglot backend: Hands-on depth in at least one of Go Clojure Node or Java and genuine willingness to work across all of them.
- Multi-DB: Comfort with both relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL/caching (DynamoDB MongoDB Redis/ElastiCache) with real opinions on when each is wrong.
- Streaming: Working knowledge of Kafka or equivalent including partitioning consumer groups ordering backpressure and what happens when a consumer falls behind.
- . in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- Deep linking mobile attribution or URL routing experience (Universal Links App Links deferred deep linking).
- CDN and edge-compute work: CloudFront Functions CloudFlare Workers WAF rule design.
- Functional programming experience (Clojure Scala Erlang/Elixir).
- AdTech background.
- Track record on cost-efficiency at scale.
As a global company operating from 25 offices across 19 countries we reflect the human mosaic of the diverse and multicultural world in which we live. We ensure equal opportunities for all of our employees and promote the recruitment of diverse talents to our global teams without consideration of race gender culture or sexual orientation. We value and encourage curiosity diversity and innovation from all our employees customers and partners.
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About Company
AppsFlyer was founded over ten years ago with a mission to help marketers succeed. From the beginning, we have been committed to four things: accurate data, unmatched privacy and security, open tech-stack innovation, and an unbiased, customer-obsessed approach. These four pillars have ... View more
