Senior Backend Engineer
Verve Therapeutics
Salary undisclosed
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Description
Who We Are
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 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. Learn more at verve.com.
What You Will Do
- Lead the technical design, architecture, and implementation of complex, high-throughput components for the core ad exchange platform.
- Write exceptionally optimized, highly concurrent code (Go or Java), taking ownership of system performance where every millisecond counts.
- Act as a technical pillar for the Dublin team: mentor mid-level/junior engineers, elevate code quality through PR reviews, and set engineering standards.
- Take end-to-end ownership of critical services-from initial system design and agentic-assisted coding workflows, through to CI/CD deployment and production monitoring.
- Partner closely with the Engineering Manager and product stakeholders to translate high-level business requirements into scalable, robust technical architecture.
- Drive operational excellence by proactively identifying bottlenecks, optimizing infrastructure footprint, and leading complex incident resolutions.
What You Will Bring
- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with a strong focus on distributed backend systems.
- Deep expertise in system-level or strongly typed languages (Go or Java), with advanced knowledge of concurrency, memory management, and performance profiling.
- Proven track record of architecting and scaling high-throughput, low-latency applications.
- Extensive hands-on experience with Cloud Computing platforms (GCP, AWS) and container orchestration at scale (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD), IaC (Terraform), and modern observability stacks (Grafana, ELK).
- Practical experience using and advocating for agentic-assisted development tools (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex) to increase team velocity.
- Bonus: Deep domain experience in Ad-Tech, FinTech, High-Frequency Trading, or other environments handling tens of thousands of requests per second.
What We Offer
- Stay healthy and covered with our comprehensive Health, Life, and Income Protection Insurances
- Save on everyday travels with our TaxSaver Commuter tickets
- Recharge with 23 paid vacation days + 3 Wellness days throughout the year, in addition to the public holidays
- Support your mental well-being with our Workplace Mental Health Solution
- Boost your professional knowledge with our annual training budget & internal webinars
- … and even more reasons to join us!
Verve provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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Benefits
- Stay healthy and covered with our comprehensive Health, Life, and Income Protection Insurances
- Save on everyday travels with our TaxSaver Commuter tickets
- Recharge with 23 paid vacation days + 3 Wellness days throughout the year, in addition to the public holidays
- Support your mental well-being with our Workplace Mental Health Solution
- Boost your professional knowledge with our annual training budget & internal webinars
- … and even more reasons to join us!
About this role
Verve is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join its Dublin office and lead the technical design and implementation of high-performance components for its ad exchange platform. You would own complex, latency-sensitive services end-to-end—from architecture and development through deployment and production monitoring—working primarily in Go or Java on systems handling massive request volumes. This role requires deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms (GCP or AWS), Kubernetes, and modern observability tools, along with the ability to mentor junior and mid-level engineers and set technical standards for the team.
The position suits someone with 5+ years of backend engineering experience who has architected and scaled high-throughput, low-latency applications and has hands-on proficiency with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and agentic-assisted development workflows. Experience in ad-tech, fintech, or high-frequency trading environments is a strong bonus. You would partner closely with the Engineering Manager and product teams to translate business needs into robust technical solutions while driving operational excellence through performance optimization and incident leadership.
Verve offers comprehensive health and income protection insurance, commuter benefits, 26 days of paid leave annually plus wellness days, mental health support, and an annual training budget. The role is full-time and in-office in Dublin.
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