Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d)
Kayzen
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🌏 India, Remote
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Hello 👋 I am Servesh, Co- founder and CTO at Kayzen, and I am now looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will be a part of the platform engineering team. 🙌
But wait, you have not heard of Kayzen before? 😃
Kayzen is a mobile demand-side platform (DSP) dedicated to democratizing programmatic advertising. We enable leading apps, agencies, media buyers, and brands to run programmatic customer acquisition, retargeting, and brand performance campaigns through its self-serve and managed service options. Built on the three core pillars of performance, transparency, and control, Kayzen powers the world’s best mobile marketing teams with bespoke solutions that fuel business growth and deliver a competitive advantage.
With an unprecedented scale of 160B+ daily ad requests from 1.6B+ unique users worldwide, we serve up to 1B+ ads per day in 180 countries. Kayzen is accessible through our APIs and user interface.
The role
The Platform Engineering team owns the Real-time bidding (RTB) platform, a Real-time budget system, Real-time event processing, stream data processing engine and multiple other complex large-scale distributed components and data pipelines. You will work closely with data scientists, data analysts, product and business teams.
Day to day
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
- Design, code, deploy & maintain highly scalable software components, optimal data pipeline architecture for large- scale data volumes
- Dive deep into any part of the stack and low-level systems, as well as design broad distributed system interaction
- Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
- Build the system required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and ‘big data’ technologies.
- Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.
- Mentor junior software engineers
Sounds like you? 😉
We are looking for a candidate with a minimum 5+ yrs of professional experience working in distributed systems.
- Min. 5 years of experience in coding & implementing complex projects
- Proficiency in Java is a MUST
- Deep understanding of Multi-threading, JVM, GC and profiling tools
- Good knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
- Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, proficiency in working in Unix/Linux-based environment
- Hands on with AI development tools like (Claude code, Github Copilot etc) and demonstrates AI usage, adoption & agentic coding in day to day work
- Experience with C++/Golang nice to have
- Past Experience in ML/DS is a big plus
- Ad-tech, marketing-tech experience is a big plus
- Work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field
What do we offer?
- Exceptional career growth and learning opportunity
- A unique opportunity to be part of an experienced team of industry experts and entrepreneurs who bring massive change to the Adtech market
- Direct, day-to-day work experience with the management
- A fun, driven, and multinational team located across Germany, India, Argentina, Ukraine, Turkey, the UK and soon more countries
- A flexible work-from-home arrangement: we have office in Bangalore but felly remote mode is possible
- A 500-dollar home-office setup budget
- A 1000-dollar annual learning and development budget
- Regular company events
Benefits
- professional development
About this role
Kayzen's Platform Engineering team is building the real-time infrastructure that powers a global mobile advertising platform handling 160B+ daily ad requests. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'd own critical components including the real-time bidding system, budget engine, event processing, and data pipelines—working across the full stack from low-level systems optimization to distributed architecture design. The role demands someone who can design and maintain highly scalable systems, assemble complex datasets from diverse sources, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating closely with data scientists, analysts, and product teams.
You'll need at least five years building distributed systems with strong Java fundamentals, deep knowledge of multithreading and JVM internals, and solid grounding in databases (both SQL and NoSQL), algorithms, and operating systems. Hands-on experience with modern AI development tools and comfort in Unix/Linux environments are expected. Prior work in ad-tech or machine learning is valued, as is proficiency in C++ or Go.
The company offers remote work from India with a distributed team across multiple countries, a $500 home-office budget, $1,000 annual learning budget, and direct access to leadership. This is a chance to work on genuinely large-scale systems with experienced founders and entrepreneurs reshaping the ad-tech space.
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