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Lead Developer (Backend)Epsilon • Chicago, IL, United States
Lead Developer (Backend)

Lead Developer (Backend)

Epsilon • Chicago, IL, United States
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Overview

Epsilon is building the next-generation Retail Media Network (RMN) platform to power onsite advertising at scale, leveraging our industry-leading ad tech platform that already delivers billions of offsite ads across the open web. Our vision is a unified platform that seamlessly supports both onsite and offsite advertising with low latency, high throughput, and high reliability.

How Youll Make An Impact

  • Lead the design and development of high-performance, distributed backend services for ad delivery and optimization.
  • Collaborate with product, platform, and operations teams to integrate new capabilities into the platform.
  • Improve system performance, fix production issues, and eradicate bottlenecks across the stack.
  • Partner with DevOps / SRE to evolve CI / CD, monitoring, and performance tuning.
  • Contribute to frontend integrations (SPAs, dashboards, tools) when needed, ensuring seamless workflows for internal and external users.
  • Mentor and guide other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical planning.

What Youll Achieve

  • Provide critically important services that support a unified onsite / offsite ad serving platform.
  • Lead architectural improvements that reduce latency and increase throughput at scale.
  • Champion engineering best practices around design, testing, automation, and observability.
  • Influence the technical roadmap to ensure alignment between platform capabilities and business goals.
  • Who You Are

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend and distributed systems.
  • Deep expertise in Java and modern backend frameworks (Spring Boot or similar).
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes).
  • Hands?on experience with streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, Pulsar).
  • Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, including schema design and query optimization.
  • Solid understanding of system architecture, data flow design, and API performance optimization.
  • Self?starter with demonstrated ability to lead initiatives with minimal oversight.
  • Nice to Have

  • Experience in ad tech, especially in ad serving, RTB, or programmatic systems.
  • Familiarity with cloud?native environments (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker).
  • Experience with frontend technologies (TypeScript, React, or Angular).
  • Experience working with data engineering and analytics pipelines.
  • Why Join Us

    Youll be at the forefront of building a next?generation advertising platform that combines the speed and sophistication of programmatic ad serving with the personalization and commerce power of retail media. Your work will directly shape how millions of users experience advertising across top retailers and brands.

    Base Salary

    $98,000 - $182,000

    Benefits

  • Time to Recharge : Flexible time off (FTO), 15 paid holidays
  • Time to Recover : Paid sick time
  • Family Well?Being : Parental / new child leave, childcare & elder care assistance, adoption assistance
  • Extra Perks : Comprehensive health coverage, 401(k), tuition assistance, commuter benefits, professional development, employee recognition, charitable donation matching, health coaching and counseling
  • Equal Opportunity Employer

    Epsilon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Epsilons policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on actual or perceived race, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy), marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, mental or physical disability, religion, creed, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Epsilon also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories. Epsilon will provide accommodations to applicants needing accommodations to complete the application process. Please reach out to LeaveofAbsence@epsilon.com to request an accommodation.

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