Senior Software Engineer, Data Backend (Ad Cloud)

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 Ad Cloud Serving Services Team At Appier's Ad Cloud Team Serving Services Team, we build and maintain the critical systems that power the core of Appier's advertising technology. These systems handle massive, high-concurrency, real-time requests, and ensure the stability, low latency, and high performance of our ad delivery. Our SRE professionals are crucial in guaranteeing these services remain reliable under extreme loads, continuously enhancing product availability and performance through innovation and automation . Responsibilities Lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance, and reliable backend services for real-time ad recommendation, data serving, and core ad tech infrastructure. Drive technical roadmap and ownership for sizable projects, ensuring the delivery of robust and efficient solutions within the Ad Cloud ecosystem. Optimize critical system components for latency, throughput, and resource utilization, including database interactions (e.g., MongoDB sharding, ClickHouse optimizations) and network architecture. Enhance system observability, incident management, and operational excellence by implementing comprehensive monitoring, alerting (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus), and refining production SOPs. Collaborate closely with product managers and scientists to translate business requirements into technical designs and ensure seamless integr

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 at Ad Cloud Platform Team , 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. About you [Minimum Qualifications] 2~4 years of hands-on experience in backend software development, particularly with high-performance, high-concurrency systems. Proficient in one or more of the following languages, Python is preferred. Strong experience in system design and architecture for scalable and distributed systems, especially within a Linux environment. Good understanding of Network API Design (e.g., RESTful APIs, gRPC, GraphQL) and experience with message queues (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub) for data pipelines. Solid knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL) and experience with database optimization and scaling strategies. Familiarity with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure). Experience with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) and ro

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 We’re on the lookout for an ambitious and technically outstanding Senior Software Engineer, Backend Development to join our Enterprise Solution Engineering Team, Product Recommendation (ES REC) . Software engineers at Appier build a wide range of platforms and services that interconnect data and AI with our customers and users. In this role, you will be at the forefront of AI innovation, designing and building scalable backend architecture that delivers personalized experiences. What You’ll Do Key owner of sizable engineering projects and services within the ES REC team. Architect and implement AI Agents and agentic workflows to automate decision-making processes and enhance recommendation delivery. Build and optimize Machine Learning pipelines for large-scale personalization, ensuring efficient data processing, model serving, and low-latency response. Design and operate scalable, cloud-native architectures leveraging managed services (e.g., GKE, BigQuery, or Pub/Sub ) to support high-throughput recommendation workflows. Architect and operate resilient ML job execution frameworks covering training, inference, and post-processing workflows to ensure system elasticity. Define and implement CI/CD pipelines with tools like Jenkins or ArgoCD to enable seamless, automated, and reliable deployments. Lead system designs and provide technical guidance to team me

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 P

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 Engineers at Appier build a wide range of platforms and services that interconnect data and AI with our customers and users—operating at scale where every millisecond and every nine of availability matters. As a Senior Backend Engineer (SRE / Reliability & Performance) , you will sit at the intersection of backend development and site reliability engineering: designing and building scalable, performant backend services while owning the reliability, observability, and performance characteristics of large-scale, high-traffic systems (QPS > 10k). You will profile and tune systems end to end, lead the response to production incidents, and drive the engineering practices that keep our services fast and resilient as traffic grows. Seniority and title are determined by job-related skills, experience, and evaluation following the interview. We welcome international candidates to our teams. This position is ideally to be based in Taiwan. Responsibilities Design and build scalable, reliable, and maintainable backend services and the components that support them Own system reliability and performance for high-traffic services, including SLO/SLA definition, error budgets, and capacity planning Profile, benchmark, and tune critical components to resolve latency, throughput, and scalability bottlenecks in medium-to-large systems (QPS > 10k) Diagnose and sol

About Appier Appier is an AI-native Agentic AI as a Service (AaaS) company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to power business decision-making. Founded in 2012 with a vision of democratizing AI, Appier’s mission is turning AI into ROI by making software intelligent. Appier now has 17 offices across APAC, Europe and U.S., and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Ticker number: 4180). Visit www.appier.com for more information. About the role Appier's Playable Ads team ( https://www.appier.com/en/blog/what-is-playable-ads ) builds AI-powered playable and video ad experiences that drive dramatically higher engagement and conversion for the world's leading apps and games. We're looking for a Senior Backend Developer with deep expertise in distributed systems and modern backend architecture to design and build the scalable, high-performance services behind these experiences — from creative generation pipelines to the infrastructure that brings our ML models to production. You'll work across microservices, messaging systems, data persistence layers, and system performance optimization, while partnering with ML scientists on MLOps workflows to continuously ship and serve new model versions to end users. You'll also collaborate closely with frontend engineers and product managers to deliver seamless, cross-functional outcomes. If you're passionate about building backend systems that operate at scale, thrive in cross-functional teams, and want your code to directly power AI-driven ad experiences reaching millions of users, we'd love to talk. What You'll Work On Architect and develop robust, scalable backend services and APIs using ASP.NET Core, owning sizable projects from system design through production operation. Design efficient database schemas and optimize data access logic across SQL and NoSQL data stores. Implement message-driven communication with high reliability and fault tolerance. Partner with ML scientists to build and maint