Data Scientist on SmartNews’s Ads Data Science team, leading product analytics, A/B testing, causal analysis, and analytical pipelines to guide ad-product decisions across JP and US markets.
About this role
This role sits on the Ads Product Backend Team, which builds the systems behind the company’s advertising platform and revenue engine. The team works across ad targeting, ranking, auctions, and measurement, supporting high-traffic delivery for millions of users and coordinating with Ads Ranking, Ads Foundation, Data Platform, and AI Infrastructure teams.
The engineer will design and improve robust online and offline backend systems, develop features for ranking, premium ads, custom audiences, and cross-platform measurement, and improve architecture for low-latency, high-throughput applications. The posting names Java, Kotlin, Golang, C++, C#, and Python, with Kafka, Redis, SQL, NoSQL databases, microservices, service mesh, AWS, Spring Boot, MySQL, Hive, Spark, Flink, Docker, and Kubernetes among the technologies used across the role.
Applicants need a bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, computer engineering, science, or a related field, plus at least three years of experience developing backend systems for high-traffic web services. Advanced experience with at least one listed programming language and practical use of Kafka, Redis, SQL, and some NoSQL databases are required.
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