Senior Software Engineer, Core Exchange

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Liftoff

Beijing

Hybrid

Posted March 26, 2026

Job Description

Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy. Our end-to-end technology stack helps app marketers acquire and retain high-value users, while enabling publishers to maximize revenue across programmatic and direct demand.

Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.

At Liftoff, the Supply Platform team is essential to the success of our Publisher side business. Our team is dedicated to designing and building platform infrastructure that processes over a billion events daily, and we are rapidly expanding. We are a group of innovative engineers leveraging the latest technology to develop efficient and scalable systems. If you're passionate about building and scaling low-latency, high-throughput systems, we would love to speak with you!

Responsibilities

Take ownership and work with various product management, development and quality assurance groups in a fast-paced environment
Design, engineer & implement highly-available, fault-tolerant, distributed systems enhancing our real-time bidding system
Focusing on code readability, performance, testing, documentation, continuous integration
Become familiar with core development, product release and its business
Implementing new features and streamlining existing services
Follow the KISS principle and contribute to improving our coding standards.
Share knowledge and best practices with team members.
PagerDuty on-call rotation

Qualifications

BS in Computer Science with 5+ years professional experience; or
MS in Computer Science with 3+ years of professional experience; or equivalent work experience
Proficient in at least one of the following languages: Golang (preferable), C/C++, Java, Python
Experience building low-latency, high-throughput, distributed backend services
Deep understanding of computer architectures, data structures, and algorithms
Knowledge of profiling and debugging distributed microservices
Experience building data-intensive applications.
Experience with distributed system observability metrics, using it for data driven design decisions
Have good team communication and collaboration skills.
Passionate about helping others and invested in the team’s success
Good at English (oral, writing, reading)

Preferred Experience

Previous experience in ad-tech
Proficient in Golang
Redis, RocksDB, Mongo, Kafka
gRPC, RestAPI, GraphQL
Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Github, CI/CD
ML, Tensorflow

Location:
This role is hybrid. During the initial 3 months of onboarding we ask you work a minimum of 3 days/week from our Beijing office (Guomao). After onboarding, we prefer working a minimum of Wednesdays in office.

Travel Expectations:
We offer several opportunities for in-person team gatherings, including but not limited to project meetings, regional meetups, and company-wide events. We expect our employees to attend these gatherings at least once per quarter. These gatherings provide essential opportunities for collaboration, communication, and team building.

Compensation:
Liftoff offers all employees a full compensation package that includes equity and health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence. Base compensation will vary based on the candidate's location and experience.

The following are our base salary ranges for this role: 500,000 - 625,000 RMB annually

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