Senior Fullstack Engineer

Kevel is transforming the retail media space with its cutting-edge, AI-driven ad tech infrastructure APIs that power the Retail Media Cloud™. This groundbreaking solution combines the power of AI insights with API-based technology, allowing multi-brand retailers to build dynamic, customizable ad platforms while maintaining full control of their first-party data. With Kevel , retailers can deliver personalized shopper experiences, optimize ad targeting, and unlock predictive insights to stay ahead in an ever-evolving market.

JOB OVERVIEW : Kevel Console is Kevel 's omnichannel advertiser self-serve platform. It lets media owners, especially retail and commerce media networks, hand campaign management and reporting directly to their advertisers, across onsite and offsite channels such as Meta, Google and Adform. As a Senior Fullstack Engineer on the Console team, you'll help modernize the systems behind the product, improve its reliability and robustness, and build the new features that win and grow customers. Learn more about Console: .

LOCATION: REMOTE – UK, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Hungary, or other EU countries . This is a fully remote role. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in their country of residence.

PAY TRANSPARENCY: Kevel uses external, third-party market data to determine compensation for all open positions. Our compensation philosophy is based on the candidate’s specific working location and experience level. This means that we will take a no negotiation approach in our recruitment and offer processes. We believe this is an important step in living our value of embracing diversity while underlining our commitment to fair, equitable and inclusive pay practices. An exact offer for this position will be determined based on the candidate's working location and experience level, in relation to our existing team.

All compensation packages include the additional benefits as described in the 'Why you'll love working with us' section below. We also have a transparent ‘Total Rewards Philosophy’ we’d be happy to share with you which describes our overall approach to compensation and benefits in full detail! Our recruitment team can share more about this with you in an initial phone interview and will be happy to answer any questions you have related to compensation at Kevel !

WHAT YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH:

• Improve the platform's architectural qualities, helping ensure our foundation provides the scalability, reliability, security and performance our global customers require.
• Work closely with the product management team to help design and build new features.
• Help provide operational oversight for the platform, making sure we are up and running 24/7.
• Work closely with our customer success teams to deliver value and drive growth.

SKILLS YOU'LL BRING WITH YOU:

• MUST HAVES:
• • Experience building and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment.
• Experience designing and developing across multiple layers of an application.
• Experience designing or maintaining latency-sensitive systems with tight response-time requirements.
• Proficiency with relational and non-relational databases, including transactional data models.
• Strong programming experience in at least one production backend language, ideally Clojure, Rust, Node.js, Java, Kotlin, Scala, or another JVM language.
• Experience with HTTP-based APIs and production service integrations.
• Comfortable participating in an on-call rotation with clear escalation paths.
• PREFERRED / NICE TO HAVES:
• • Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform).
• Knowledge of React.js/TypeScript and modern frontend development standards.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.
• • Experience modernizing legacy systems while keeping production systems highly available.
• Experience supporting globally distributed, multi-region services.
• Experience working closely with product and customer-facing teams on technical product features.
• Contributing to technical decisions and direction in a collaborative team environment, including architecture, estimation, product planning and user story/requirement creation.
• Curiosity for emerging technologies and a commitment to continuous learning.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication and mentoring skills.
• Empathy and the ability to support, coach and empower colleagues to deliver their best.
• Self-driven, with a desire to improve processes, teams and engineering practices.

WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING WITH US:

• Fully Remote Team: We are a 100% remote work environment with employees located around the world. You are welcome to work from home, one of our offices, a WeWork office, or an equivalent co-working space.
• Flexible Working Hours: We understand our employees have their own lives, responsibilities and working preferences. We trust our …