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Backend Engineer - Go

  • Hybrid -
    • Limassol, Cyprus
    • Yerevan, Armenia
  • Engineering
  • Permanent - Full Time

Backend Engineer - Go

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Job ID: r20496

What You'll Do:

Bidswitch is a high‑scale (processing 8M+ RPS), low‑latency advertising middleware. We are building a new solution for publishers therefore we need more engineers to help us build real-time bidding applications.

You are:

  • A backend engineer with solid production experience

  • Proficient in Go (or ready to very quickly operate in it)

  • Comfortable picking up and using a new scripting language (JavaScript, Lua, or Python) for part of your work

  • Fluent in Russian and/or English and enjoying working in an international team in Limassol or Yerevan

Who You Are:

  • Design, implement, and operate backend services in Go (around 80% of your work)

  • Solve business and operational tasks using a scripting language (JavaScript, Lua, or Python) (around 20% of your work)

  • Contribute to high‑scale, low‑latency real‑time bidding applications used in Bidswitch

  • Participate in code reviews, incident analysis, and continuous improvement of service reliability and performance

We acknowledge that many candidates may not meet every single role requirement listed above. If your experience looks a little different from our requirements but you believe that you can still bring value to the role, we’d love to see your application!​

Who We Are:

We’re Criteo, the Commerce Intelligence Platform. Criteo helps businesses turn shopper signals into commerce outcomes while delivering more relevant experiences for shoppers. We use proprietary commerce intelligence and AI decisioning to drive relevance for shoppers and performance for businesses.

At Criteo, our culture is as unique as it is diverse. From our offices across the globe or from the comfort of home, our 3,600 Criteos collaborate together to build an open, impactful, and forward-thinking environment.

We foster a workplace where everyone is valued, and employment decisions are based solely on skills, qualifications, and business needs—never on non-job-related factors or legally protected characteristics.

What We Offer:

🏢 Ways of working – Our hybrid model blends home with in-office experiences, making space for both.
📈 Grow with us – Learning, mentorship & career development programs.
💪 Your wellbeing matters – Health benefits, wellness perks & mental health support.
🤝 A team that cares – Diverse, inclusive, and globally connected.
💸 Fair pay & perks – Attractive salary, with performance-based rewards and family-friendly policies, plus the potential for equity depending on role and level.

Additional benefits may vary depending on the country where you work and the nature of your employment with Criteo.

Perks & Benefits for all Criteos.

Happy people make healthy teams, so we value employee well-being above all else. Discover the perks & benefits we offer all our Criteos!!

Ways of Working

Trust and flexibility are at our core, so is the power of being together. Our hybrid model blends empowerment with shared in-person experiences, making space for both. We believe this is the most valuable way to foster collaboration in a way that helps us grow, together.

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Learning & Career Development

As your skills multiply, opportunities do too. So, we care to help you nurture your potential, identify new goals, and define what you want out of your career. Discover how we have diversified our learning resources and training catalog for you to shape greater opportunities. You care for your career growth, and we do too.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

We care to build an open future for our community and beyond. Discover how our people fuel our Corporate Social Responsibility from the bottom up, embracing but also embodying and promoting values of diversity, equity, and inclusion through everything they do. Together, we strive to build a future that truly includes everyone.

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Great people shape greater opportunities.

At Criteo, we believe great people and reliable products are essential to build an open future for all.
Everything you need to know about our culture, vision, values, and how we live them with people, both in and out of Criteo, is in our Culture Book. Discover who we are, what we do, and how we act as a company and as Criteos!
Our culture
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Meet our Criteos in Cyprus!

Whether you prefer the sandy beaches of a coastal city or the cultural dynamism of the capital, we have an office that will suit your needs in Cyprus! Either join our team in Nicosia, the capital of the island and enjoy its rich culture and historical heritage, or try our team in Limassol, where you can enjoy lively nightlife in a uniquely beautiful setting. Are you willing to combine a real-life experience with promising career opportunities? Then we have room for you at Criteo Cyprus.

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Meet our Criteos in Armenia!

Welcome to the growing tech hub of Criteo Armenia, located in the heart of Yerevan. There, you'll join a team committed to developing cutting-edge advertising technology and solutions, directly contributing to our company's global success. We created this dynamic hub after acquiring IPONWEB, which already had a strong presence in this region.

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