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Lead Backend Engineer, SuperAds

Frictionless design for growing businesses. Dedicated team of top designers, fast turnarounds & magical DesignOps tech.

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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.
  • Develop and maintain high-performance APIs supporting user-facing dashboards and analytics.
  • Work cross-functionally with product, AI, and frontend teams to ensure seamless feature delivery.
  • Optimize backend workflows, focusing on strong generalist engineering skills with specialized ETL experience.
  • Collaborate with AI teams to integrate machine learning models into production, powering insights like creative tagging and ad analysis.
  • 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.

What you'll need to suceed:

  • Proven experience as a backend engineer, with a track record of building and scaling complex systems.
  • Preferably experienced in Kotlin (or similar JVM languages such as Java, Scala, or Python), but strong general backend expertise and adaptability are essential.
  • Ability to quickly learn new technologies and think beyond the technical setup.
  • Strong understanding of infrastructure and deployment pipelines, with experience in Kubernetes and AWS preferred.
  • Experience in 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 product mindset—we prioritize engineers from product-driven companies or scale-ups who take ownership beyond just coding..
  • A growth mindset, with a passion for solving complex problems in a fast-paced, high-growth SaaS environment.

Why Join us?

Superside's vision is to create equal opportunities globally by accelerating the world’s transition to online work. With that in mind, we're building a fully remote company that attracts people where they are.

Remote-first. Customer-led.

Remote isn’t just a perk; it’s how we deliver better for customers. We are fully committing to our customers by hiring top talent and collaborating seamlessly across time zones.

Global team, local impact.

Join a community of 60+ nationalities working across time zones, cultures, and disciplines, all aligned on doing great work for great brands.

High performance, low ego.

Work in a fast-paced, high-trust environment where feedback is direct, growth is constant, and kindness leads collaboration.

Impact meets opportunity.

We’re in the sweet spot — big enough to be stable, small enough for you to shape what’s next. Your ideas will matter here.

Grow fast. Lead well.

You’ll gain mentorship, take on real responsibility, and grow your career while helping us disrupt a global industry.

About Superside

Superside is the leading AI-powered creative company that quickly and cost-effectively enhances in-house functions. We help over 500 ambitious brands get great creative concepts done at scale. Built to be an extension
of in-house teams, we unbottleneck marketing and creative teams so they can move faster and drive more reliable creative performance.
Superside is a fully remote company with over 700 team members working across 60+ countries and 13 timezones.
Learn more at superside.com

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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EMEA +/- 0 hours

Job categories

Lead Backend EngineerPrincipal Backend EngineerBack End Lead

Skills

Backend EngineeringKotlinAPIsETLKubernetesAWSAI SystemsMachine LearningPerformance OptimizationDistributed ArchitectureDatabase ManagementDatadogOpenTracingMonitoringLoggingDebuggingJava

About Superside

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Frictionless design for growing businesses. Dedicated team of top designers, fast turnarounds & magical DesignOps tech.

Superside is an always-on design company that delivers great design at scale to Enterprise teams—from everyday production design work to large-scale strategic design solutions.

Trusted by 300+ businesses including Facebook, PUMA, Amazon, Shopify, Kiva and more, Superside makes design hassle-free for Marketing, Creative and Product Design teams. Visit www.superside.com for ongoing design help.

About Superside

Superside is a tech-enabled design company that delivers beautiful design at scale to scale-ups and enterprise teams — from everyday production work to large-scale strategic design solutions.

Our Mission

To create more equal economic opportunities globally by finding and growing the world’s best creative talent.

How we're going to make that happen

Superside is a fully remote tech-enabled design company targeting the very best designers and project managers from top-tier agencies anywhere in the world. Today, we have 160 employees in over 50 countries.

We work with our clients through our leading in-house Design Operations platform, enabling seamless collaboration and efficient execution across all timezones.

Our clients are primarily US-based brands, and include Amazon, Puma, Spotify, Salesforce, Twitch Prime, S&S Activewear, Cisco, and others, as well as scale-ups and future industry leaders.

We aim to be the best place for ambitious international designers to quickly learn and grow their careers.

Our Investors

Superside is backed by Sam Altman (former president of Y Combinator), Geoff Ralston (president of Y Combinator), Paul Buchheit (creator of Gmail), Y Combinator, Slack Fund, Freestyle Capital, High Alpha Capital and Alliance Ventures.

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Learning and development budget

In Superside we strongly value meritocracy, long-term development and professional growth. We encourage and offer training in new skills and certification in new verticals, providing continuous learning opportunities, constant mentoring, leadership development, and certification in our global Academy to ensure everyone has the right tools to grow and succeed.

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501-1000 employees

Founded in

2015

Chief executive officer

Fredrik Thomassen

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