Lead Backend Engineer, SuperAds

Superside Remote Full-time
Salary Competitive
SuperAds is an AI-powered creative analytics platform that helps marketers decode what drives ad performance. As Superside’s first standalone SaaS product, SuperAds is scaling fast, with 25% month-over-month growth, and expanding its capabilities in AI-driven creative strategy.


We’re looking for a Lead Backend Engineer to architect, build, and scale the backend systems that power SuperAds. In this role, you’ll own critical infrastructure, optimize large-scale data processing, and drive innovation in AI and SaaS. This is an opportunity to shape the product at an early stage while enjoying the backing and stability of Superside.

What You'll be doing:
  • Design, build, and scale backend systems that process high-volume ad data.
  • Own critical services written in Kotlin, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability.
  • Optimize ETL workflows, improving cost efficiency and reliability in large-scale data syncing.
  • Collaborate with AI teams to integrate machine learning models into production, powering insights like creative tagging and ad analysis.
  • Develop and maintain high-performance APIs supporting user-facing dashboards and analytics.
  • Lead infrastructure improvements using Kubernetes and cloud technologies for seamless scaling.
  • Troubleshoot and optimize system performance, leveraging tools like Datadog and OpenTracing.
  • Mentor backend engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and technical excellence.
  • Define and drive the technical roadmap, balancing innovation, stability, and scalability.
  • Work cross-functionally with product, AI, and frontend teams to ensure seamless feature delivery.

What you'll need to suceed:
  • Proven experience as a backend engineer, with a track record of building and scaling complex systems.
  • Expertise in Python or Kotlin (or similar JVM languages like Java or Scala) for backend development.
  • Strong understanding of infrastructure and deployment pipelines, with experience in Kubernetes and AWS, preferred.
  • Familiarity with ETL processes and managing large-scale data pipelines.
  • Experience working with AI-powered systems and integrating ML models into production is a plus.
  • Deep knowledge of system performance optimization, distributed architecture, and database management.
  • Leadership experience, with a track record of mentoring and guiding engineering teams.
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and debugging tools (e.g., Datadog, OpenTracing).
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills for working across engineering and product teams.
  • A growth mindset, with a passion for solving complex problems in a fast-paced, high-growth SaaS environment.


About Superside

Superside is a revolutionary way for businesses to get good design done at scale. Trusted by 450+ ambitious companies, Superside makes design hassle-free for marketing and creative teams. By combining the top 1% of creative talent from around the world with purpose-built technology and the rigor of design ops, Superside helps ambitious brands grow faster. Since inception, Superside has been a fully remote company, with more than 700 team members working across 57 countries and 13 timezones.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We’re an equal opportunity company. All applicants will be considered regardless of ethnicity, appearance, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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Superside revolutionizes the global design industry by building new tech and data science-driven processes that enable distributed teams to work together much more efficiently and robust. We deliver high-velocity on-demand design to enterprises, with a data-driven and meritocratic mindset unlike any other platform or service. Superside is pioneering the future of remote work with a tech-enabled platform that creates super efficiencies and advantages workers by way of fostering community and greater income predictability with flexible work and stable wages. Our mission is to shape the global labor market; by having a fair and transparent labor platform that is great for both remote workers and enterprise customers. We currently have more than 100 creatives spanning six continents, 58 countries, and 19 timezones, and we work mainly with major US-based brands, including Tiffany & Co, Amazon, Cisco, L’Oreal and others. We have hub offices in Oslo, Toronto and Cape Town but are essentially based nowhere. We are remote-first with team members spread across the world. Superside was founded in late 2015 and became the first Norwegian company to join the Y Combinator accelerator in Palo Alto, California. We have since received funding from reputable Silicon Valley investors Freestyle Venture, High Alpha, Slack Fund, Sam Altman, Alliance Venture, and others. We're always-on and chase the sun to deliver the moon!

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