Senior Software Engineer - SSP Team

About Teads

Teads is a leading omnichannel advertising platform focused on driving outcomes for brand and performance advertisers across screens. With a focus on meaningful business outcomes for branding and performance objectives, Teads drives value by leveraging predictive AI technology to connect quality media, beautiful brand creative, and context-driven addressability and measurement. Teads is directly partnered with more than 10,000 publishers and 20,000 advertisers globally. The company is headquartered in New York, New York with a global team of around 1,700 people in 30+ countries.

For more information, visit www.teads.com.

Our main Engineering challenges at Teads

• Build efficient and easy-to-use web products used by thousands of users working for the world’s most premium publishers, advertisers, and agencies.

• Rich and diverse tech stack and system architecture to optimize for performance, scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency. We use mostly Scala and TypeScript, among others.

• Working in a very high-traffic environment (2.2 billion users per month, 100 billion events per day) with low latency and high availability constraints (2 million requests per second, responses in less than 150 milliseconds).

• Management of large datasets with milliseconds order of magnitude access time, to compute in a near real-time complex auction resolution algorithm (18 million predictions per second).

• A fast-changing environment where we continuously collaborate with Product teams and constantly adapt our Cloud infrastructure for new features and Products.

• Bring a wide diversity of profiles to the same level of quality and knowledge

• Work in an international environment with offices located in Israel, Slovenia and France.

About the SSP Video Team

The SSP Video team is a high-scale engineering team powering video advertising for publishers across web, mobile and Connected TV. Our platform serves 2.2 billion users per month, receives 220k requests per second from publishers and exchanges more than 2 million requests per second with DSPs. Reliability, scalability and performance are at the core of everything we build.

The team operates across three scopes:

• Core: We keep the platform stable, performant and scalable. From handling production incidents and driving architectural improvements to enabling contributing teams across the organization to ship with confidence on our SSP.

• Programmatic: We connect to major DSPs over OpenRTB, run the internal auction, automate deal and campaign setup, apply ML models to optimize bid traffic quality and manage the financial layer.

• CTV Instream: We primarily deliver instream video ads for Connected TVs, extending reach to mobile and desktop. Already integrated with major industry players, we're actively expanding into new markets and partners globally.

What will you do?

As a Senior Software Engineer, your mission will be to:

• Collaborate with software engineers and data scientists to research, develop, and deploy experiments, features and enhancements with a high impact on our global revenue.

• Create, design, develop, test, and monitor your code in production autonomously and reliably.

• Work with the Engineering Manager, Product Manager and other teams to frame projects and be accountable for their execution.

• Obtain a good understanding of the business to provide relevant solutions to clients.

• Be a work facilitator and help communication inside and outside Teads.

• Stay up-to-date on new technologies and architectures. If they can solve a problem Teads has, propose ways to implement them into our current software engineering process.

What will you bring to the team?

• Good programming abilities. Testing your code is second nature to you. You are mindful of your application’s architecture, performance, maintainability, and overall quality.

• Familiarity with large, high-throughput, distributed systems, and connecting together and processing large amounts of data

• Analytical and experimental mindset in any feature or project you’ll ship to production. You like to prove an idea first before you invest large amounts of effort into development.

• Good communication skills and ability to work collaboratively within a diverse global team. You are an active listener and a dialogue facilitator, you know how to explain your decision and like sharing your knowledge.

• Multiple shipped projects in Software Engineering.

• Production knowledge and practices (Release, Observability, Troubleshooting…), thanks to multiple shipped projects / applications. Strong problem-solving skills.

We care about you:

• Career Development: Continuous investment in our employees’ skills: in-house and external training, internal mobility …

• Life Balance: A well-balanced work-life for our employees is one of our top priorities: 22 days off per year, 15 days per year of work from anywhere, hybrid work (3 days per week in the office)

• Wellness: Prioritizing employee well-being through premium work equipment, enjoyable work environment (work-life balance, team building events, summits), work from home subsidy, promoting Diversity & Inclusion with internal & external initiatives, etc. 

Please submit your CV in English.

Life at Teads

At Teads, we don’t just offer new roles - we blend creativity, technology, and data to shape the future of media. You’ll work with smart humans, meaningful brands, and cool tools, all while helping redefine how advertising works in a world that demands more transparency, better insights, and smarter strategies.

As a Teadster, you’ll play a critical role in shaping our future success in the region. Here’s why Teads stands out:

• We've merged two open internet category leaders-Outbrain and Teads-to create the ‘new’ Teads, a unified omnichannel platform that drives results from branding to performance across all screens, including CTV, mobile, and web.
• As part of our team, you’ll thrive in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment that fosters innovation, creative problem-solving, and continuous learning.
• Teads is committed to your success, offering the support, tools, and development opportunities you need to excel in your role.

Our company culture is welcoming, dynamic, diverse, global, and built on top performance.

Teads is an equal employment opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion at all stages of recruitment and employment.

Our team is made up of individuals who are approachable, resourceful, passionate, and proactive. We foster a sense of belonging through our Employee Resource Groups - employee-led groups in which we debate topics and drive change: environmental, women empowerment, charitable initiatives to diversity, equity, and inclusion, you’ll be able to share your passions with likeminded people.