Senior Backend Developer

At Avolta (SIX: AVOL), our people are at the driving force behind our success. With a team of over 76,000 individuals representing more than 150 nationalities, we are a truly global company driven by passion, innovation, and excellence. Avolta is the world’s leading travel experience player. With a traveler-centric philosophy and a geographically diverse network, the travel retail and F&B company addresses the needs of up to 2.3 billion passengers each year, with 5,500 outlets in more than 75 countries across six continents. Guided by their Destination 2027 strategy and boosted by their recent combination with travel F&B giant Autogrill, the company is well positioned to realize their ambition to create a Travel Experience Revolution through their many locations at airports, motorways, cruise lines, seaports and railway stations amongst others.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

We’re creating a next-generation advertising platform that powers omnichannel campaigns across DOOH, CRM, and retail media. As a Senior Backend Developer, you’ll be one of the first engineers shaping its core services. You’ll architect APIs, design data models, and integrate with external systems — building the secure, scalable foundation that supports campaign creation, automation, and reporting at global scale.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design & build APIs: Develop RESTful and GraphQL endpoints to power campaign workflows
• Model complex data: Create data structures for campaign metadata, creatives, targeting rules, and roles/permissions
• Integrate external services: Connect with SSPs, CMSs, billing, and analytics tools
• Ensure scalability: Drive performance, uptime, and system security across a multi-region setup
• Contribute to DevOps: Shape CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and infrastructure in close partnership with the platform team

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR 

• 4–6+ years of backend development experience (Node.js, Python, Go, or Java)
• Strong expertise in PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or equivalent relational/NoSQL databases
• Hands-on experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Knowledge of authentication, authorization, and identity systems (OAuth, JWT, SSO)
• Bonus: Experience in AdTech, MarTech, or workflow-heavy platforms

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