Senior Software Engineer, Backend Development

Appier is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend Development in Taipei, Taiwan. Level rates it ; you can apply on Appier.

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On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
Level classes it as a senior role.
Appier has 66 other open roles on Level.

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About Appier

Appier (TSE: 4180) is an AI-native Agentic AI as a Service (AaaS) company that empowers businesses to create value through cutting-edge AdTech and MarTech solutions. Founded in 2012 with the vision of “Making AI Easy by Making Software Intelligent,” Appier helps businesses turn AI into ROI through its Ad Cloud, Personalization Cloud, and Data Cloud—each powered by Agentic AI that enables autonomous, adaptive, and real-time decision-making. Today, Appier operates 17 offices across APAC, the US, and EMEA, and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Learn more at www.appier.com.

About the role

Software engineers at Appier build a wide range of platforms and services that interconnect data and AI with our customers and users. As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend Development, you will design and build scalable and performant backend architecture, own and drive the technical roadmap for sizable projects or services, mentor junior engineers, and facilitate high performance agile teams collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

Key owner of sizable engineering projects and services
Lead system designs and provide technical guidance to team members.
Mentor engineers in cross-team development processes.
Lead code reviews to ensure high quality coding standards
Facilitate agile process collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Initiate and lead team-level technical, process and growth initiatives
Continuously improve the system's observability, incident management, DevOps and production operational SOPs.
Develop and operate scalable, reliable and maintainable service-based softwares and related components.
Responsible for laying the foundation for the platform as well as proposing solutions to ease software development, monitoring of software, etc.
Profiling and performance tuning of critical components
Participate in idea brainstorming and contribute ideas to technology, algorithms and products
Participate on-call rotation within Backend team to ensure product reliability and scalability

About you

[Minimum qualifications]

5+ years of experience in software development
Leadership experiences such as mentoring junior engineers, facilitating an agile process.
Ability to build web services on Linux.
Proficient in one or more of the following languages: Python/Scala/Go/Java/C++
Good knowledge of Network API Design ( e.g. REST or GraphQL).
Good understanding of any SQL/NoSQL database (MySQL / MongoDB / Redis / etc.)
Familiar with git.
Familiar with AWS, GCP or Azure.
Proactive, good interpersonal and problem-solving skills.

[Preferred qualifications]

BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related field.
Technical leadership experiences
Good at profiling and debugging tools.
High performance network service on Linux.
Design and architect large scale distributed systems.
Design and implement distributed algorithms and data structure.
Expert in some of the following CS Domains:

Nginx / HAProxy.
Operation automation tool (such as Ansible).
Continuous integration / continuous deployment
Monitoring and alert system (Prometheus / Nagios).
Functional programming.
Data Intensive Application Design.
Web Frontend and Javascript.

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How we rate this

Senior Software Engineer, Backend Development at Appier rates 14 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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