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🧠 About the Product/Client

A fast-growing AdTech scale-up that delivers AI-powered Google Ads optimization for hundreds of e-commerce brands.

Hourly Rate is between 30-50 EUR depending on experience.

Technical Stack:

• Back-end: Python 3.9 + Django (bidding engine)
• Microservice: TypeScript (competitor monitoring)
• Front-end: Vue 2 (hosted on Cloudflare Pages)
• Infrastructure:
  • AWS EKS (containerized services)
  • Redis-backed queues
  • Aurora PostgreSQL (data storage)
• Legacy System: Shopping module in PHP (Laravel 5.7 + MySQL), planned for migration to the Python stack

👥 Why They’re Hiring

Two of their four senior full-stack engineers are leaving in July. We're hiring someone to:

• Take ownership of the codebase
• Lead the 1-month PHP → Python migration together with the infra engineer and an intern
• Help shape the next generation of bidding features

🔧 Your Key Responsibilities

• Extend and maintain the Django-based bidding engine, audit tool, and budgeting workflows
• Migrate core Shopping features from Laravel/MySQL to the existing Python + PostgreSQL stack
• Maintain and eventually upgrade:
  • Node/TypeScript microservices
  • Vue 2 front-end (plan for Vue 3 upgrade)
• Design and optimize asynchronous jobs using Redis queues (BullMQ, Huey)
• Optimize PostgreSQL performance and query efficiency
• Own CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Helm on EKS
• Ensure SLAs for bidding calculations and reporting are upheld
• Collaborate with the infra engineer to optimize AWS performance and cost (e.g. EKS Spot, nginx-ingress, Cloudflare)
• Contribute to new product features including:
  • OpenAI-powered chat assistant
  • AI-based keyword tooling

✅ Must-Have Experience

• 5+ years building production systems in Python 3.x and Django REST
• 3+ years of experience with modern JavaScript / TypeScript in Node environments
• Comfortable reading and migrating legacy PHP 7+ (Laravel) code
• Strong SQL skills in both PostgreSQL and MySQL:
  • Schema migrations
  • Query optimization
• Practical experience with AWS operations, including:
  • EKS, RDS/Aurora, S3, IAM
• Solid knowledge of:
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • Helm (or similar container orchestration tools)
• Experience with distributed queues using Redis (BullMQ, Celery, Huey)
• Ability to work in GMT +2 / UTC +2 environment
• High speed internet (minimum 50/50 Mbps)
• Video camera for meetings
• Good microphone

⭐ Nice-to-Have

• Experience with the Google Ads API or broader AdTech ecosystem
• Migration experience from Vue 2 to Vue 3 or to React
• Familiarity with observability stacks such as:
  • Grafana
  • OpenTelemetry
  • ELK
• Exposure to ML/AI integrations:
  • OpenAI SDK
  • Vector databases

• Experience in Saas teams

How to apply

1. Visit the URL in the job description
2. Fill in the form

Recruitment process:

You can expect the following process for this job:

1. Meet & Greet (30 min) - Test your communciation and get a feeling of you as a person.
2. Code test & Personality test (2-3 h) - Test your skills and understanding your reasoning
3. Technical interview (1,5 h) - Meet our CTO for the final review
4. Welcome to the pool! - Join our pool and you never have to leave