Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!
As a Fullstack Engineer on the Demand R&D team in our Tel Aviv office, you’ll play a vital role in building Taboola’s flagship recommendation products, from the backend services that decide which recommendations to serve to the ad formats and widgets that render them on publisher pages for billions of users.
You’ll build features end-to-end across the stack, develop innovative ad formats and high-scale backend services, and use big data and performance metrics to make engineering decisions that impact users, publishers, advertisers, and business performance.
To thrive in this role, you'll need:
3+ years of hands-on programming experience in fullstack development
Hands-on AI - you use AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) as part of your daily development workflow
Solid server-side development experience - Java or equivalent object-oriented language is a strong advantage
Good understanding of vanilla JavaScript, CSS and HTML; React / TypeScript knowledge is an advantage
Experience working with databases
Team player, able to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and an independent learner
BSc in Computer Science or equivalent
Bonus points if you have:
Good understanding of web fundamentals: HTTP methods & headers, CDN & DNS, how HTTP servers work
Experience building high-scale or distributed backend systems (message queues, caching, concurrency)
Experience with cross-browser and multi-device support - both responsiveness and feature support
Experience building AI agents, custom skills or automated workflows on top of AI coding tools
Familiarity with advanced "low-level" JavaScript/web concepts such as Event Loop, Performance API, XHR/JSONP, browser paint cycle
Familiarity with any of the following: Web Components, Lighthouse, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, BigQuery, MySQL, Grafana
Familiarity with methodologies such as Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, TDD, SCRUM
How you’ll make an impact:
Build features end-to-end: design and develop backend services alongside the client-side code that consumes them, and own them through testing, deployment, monitoring and maintenance
Work on Taboola's recommendations ad formats serving and user experience - the backbone of the company's products, standing at the intersection of end-users, publishers and advertisers
Develop and maintain a variety of new & innovative ad formats that reach billions of users and are used by thousands of advertisers (carousel, app install, video ads and many more)
Develop high-scale backend services that serve billions of requests a day, with real emphasis on performance, resilience and observability
Make professional decisions based on big data and performance metrics of billions of users, while putting emphasis on business & page performance KPIs
Build AI agents, skills and workflows that multiply the team's capabilities - automated code reviews, data analysis, production anomaly investigation, feature validation and debugging
Collaborate with the Product, Data and UX teams throughout the company to iterate on the design and implementation of our product
Our tech stack
AI: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
Backend: Java, Spring, Kafka, MySQL, Cassandra, BigQuery, Kubernetes, Docker, Grafana
Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML, CSS, Jest, Playwright
Why Taboola?
If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people.
Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO: “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.”
Well-being: Competitive benefits and well-being programs tailored to the region, a fully stocked kitchen, and location-specific perks.
Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office, with an option to come in more often if desired.
Work with some of the biggest names: Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, and Expedia.
Ready to realize your potential?
Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
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About Taboola
Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.
Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.
