Software Engineer (Ad Serving Team) at GroundTruth
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Jul 6, 2026
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Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend engineering role focused on building and operating high-traffic, distributed services at the core of a location-based advertising platform. Day-to-day work involves designing production systems in Scala or Java, diagnosing performance issues, tuning for efficiency, and integrating with caching, streaming, and storage systems. Best suited to engineers with 3–5 years of backend experience who are comfortable with concurrency, CI/CD pipelines, and using AI coding tools as a routine part of their workflow.
Mid level · 3+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 28,100 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 16,900–42,200
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is titled simply 'Backend Engineer' with no level modifier; advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 3–5 year experience requirement and scope (owning a component end-to-end on a team) map to Mid-level.
Scala and Java are presented as interchangeable primary language options ('strong in Scala or Java'); Python is a separate, additional requirement for tooling and automation work.
AI/LLM fluency (e.g. Claude Code, Codex) is listed under the 'You have' requirements section and is explicitly stated as an expected part of how candidates work — treated as a hard gate.
AWS (Auto Scaling Groups, EC2, ELB, ElastiCache) and AWS Bedrock/AgentCore are listed under 'Pluses, not gates' — explicitly optional.
Several benefits (Employee Provident Fund, National Pension System, Creche reimbursement, Meal card) are India-specific; however, the caller has declared this a fully-remote, national US role, so the US-based flag of true and no metro is set.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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