Smart AdServer is hiring a

Backend Team Lead

Paris, France
Full-Time
👫 About the team

At Equativ, we’re on a mission to develop advertising technologies that empower our customers to reach their digital business goals. This means that we rely on massively scalable, widely distributed, highly available, and efficient software systems; the platform deals with over 3 millions requests per second managed by 3,000 servers.

Our innovation team based in Paris, Nantes, Limoges, Krakow and Berlin is composed of 100+ straightforward and energetic engineers working in an Agile environment and ready to tackle the most complex technical challenges.

The mission👇

You will join our fast-growing R&D team based in Paris on a mission to build, organize and develop our SSP Engineering team that works on our bidding and ad delivery engines. You'll report directly to our Backend Engineering Manager based in Paris.

What you'll do ✏️

  • Lead and develop a team of Software Engineers that have a passion for scale and performance. Be responsible for designing and implementing a strategic plan with your team to develop, build and optimize our engines and platform
  • Work closely with R&D Management to give vision to your team, as well as gather and translate requirements into realistic technical solutions
  • Assess quality of produced features by monitoring and tests, reviewing code to ensure maintainability, checking processes and documentation
  • Participate actively to the team spirit, be a role model for your team, supporting both the technical vision of the company and the growth and performance of your team members
  • Demonstrate strong interest to work on performance & optimization topics
  • Use remaining time and your strong development skills: 
  • - To take part to architecture discussions to boost global engine performance
    - To participate to the day to day scope of the team: Design, develop, deploy and maintain scalable and highly available solutions for our platforms engines 
  • Innovate and learn in autonomy during our Smart days

About you 💪

  • 5+ years of software development experience on a Microsoft stack (C# .NET) and familiar with caches and microservices
  • Experience in managing and leading engineering teams
  • Strong interest in new technologies (Aerospike, Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana, Kubernetes, Nuget, Xunit, GitLab, SonarQube, GCP, AWS) and large-scale technical stacks
  • Entrepreneurial spirit and know-how to identify opportunities of improvement 
  • Personal projects with code sharing, we’re curious about your art!

👋 About us 
Equativ is the new single name for Smart Adserver, DynAdmic, LiquidM and Nowtilus — four proven innovators in advertising technology. The vertically integrated company provides brand and privacy-safe solutions that empower its clients to achieve maximum impact while respecting the rights of consumers. The union combines client expertise and engineering excellence to serve the interests of both the supply- side and demand-side with equal professionalism and technical sophistication.

Headquartered in Paris and New York, Equativ operates globally with a team of more than 550 people in 20 offices. Equativ offers the market its own independent ad server, SSP, buyer tools, and media services to fulfill the promise of advertising technology. Learn more at Equativ.com.

The company is ranked on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA and in the Financial Times’ FT 1000: Europe’s Fastest-Growing Companies.

Equativ (formerly Smart AdServer) has been awarded the HappyIndex@Work label and is proud to be among the best companies in the ChooseMyCompany ranking, recognized for its flexible working environment.

Come and lead the charge with us in building a transparent ecosystem based on quality!


Equativ is an equal opportunity employer. Equal access to employment, services, and programs are available to everyone, regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. If you require reasonable accommodation throughout the application and/or interview process, please contact the recruitment team at [email protected]
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