Senior Backend Engineer

Verve

Dublin, Ireland💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-22 → 2026-10-02

Core

Architecting and implementing high-throughput, low-latency components for a global ad exchange platform.

Role type

Senior Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Builds

Core ad exchange platform components for advertisers and publishers

Domain

Ad-Tech / High-Performance Computing

Required skills

Go or Java, distributed systems, concurrency, memory management, performance profiling, cloud platforms (GCP/AWS), Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Terraform, observability

Preferred skills

Ad-Tech, FinTech, High-Frequency Trading domain experience, agentic-assisted development tools

Technologies

Go, Java, Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, AWS, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Terraform, Grafana, ELK, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex

Responsibilities

Lead technical design and architecture of high-throughput components, write optimized concurrent code, mentor junior engineers, own end-to-end service lifecycle from design to production, partner with stakeholders on scalable architecture, drive operational excellence and incident resolution

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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About Verve

Verve has created a more efficient and privacy-focused way to buy and monetize advertising. Verve is an ecosystem of demand and supply technologies fusing data, media, and technology together to deliver results and growth to both advertisers and publishers–no matter the screen or location, no matter who, what, or where a customer is. With 30 offices across the globe and with an eye on servicing forward-thinking advertising customers, Verve’s solutions are trusted by more than 90 of the United States’ top 100 advertisers, 4,000 publishers globally, and the world’s top demand-side platforms. Lea