Position: Backend Team Lead
Company: EX.CO
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2021-11-01T00:00:00+02:00

**AdServer Team Lead**
 
**Our Story:**
Content is king, as they say, but not all content (or job descriptions) are equally appealing to today’s digitally-savvy, time-strapped audiences. 
For more than a decade, EX.CO has been helping publishers and brands engage their audiences with the most relevant digital experiences that drive measurable results. If you’ve taken a poll, trivia, survey or engaged with any dynamic video content in the past 10 years, chances are you’ve already experienced our industry-leading technology. What you likely haven’t seen is the unparalleled wealth of unique audience insights we can then provide our partners on the backend.
With a growing roster of premium, global clients (think CBS, Netflix, Macy’s, Lego, ESPN, HuffPost, VICE) and backing from great investors like Disney and Saban Ventures, we’re primed to expand our team with more exceptional talent. Are you an innovative & creative self-starter who is amazing to work with? If yes, this job could be for you.

**Your Story:**
As a Team Lead at EX.CO you will lead and develop our ad server product;  Manage and optimize a high  scale infrastructure  product with billions of transactions every day,  own and lead end to end features and handle the entire development cycle - architecture,  implementation,  deployment and monitoring. 
As part of the job, you will work closely with the product,  BI, operations and  business teams. build a great product that will leverage our capabilities and influence directly on the way billions of people consume and engage content over the internet.

**Responsibilities:**
- Full Ad Server ownership and management
- Support and manage 99.999 uptime infrastructure product with billions of transactions every day,
- Growing and developing a team of talented and motivated backends developers.
- Own the design, execution, quality and end-to-end delivery of highly scalable products.
- Ensuring that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget.
- Improve EX.CO's development cycle working with DevOps to optimize git flows and CI/CD processes.

**Requirements:**
- Proven experience working in the ad tech industry
- 5+ years of experience in Lua NGINX, AWS, Redis. Go, Python and Angular is a plus
- 2+ years of experience in managing engineering team
- Experienced in building cloud-based complexed systems in a scale oriented environment.
- Experience working with Kafka & data streaming processes
- Organized and committed to the highest code quality along with handling context switches.
- Great attitude towards work and people.
- Strong organizational and project management skills.
- Fast learner, organized and committed to the highest code quality.
- Experience in hiring and growing engineers.
- English - Upper Intermediate.