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Palo Alto, CA

Backend Engineer, New Grad

Graduate Program
Technology & Digital
Software engineering
Posted:
December 28, 2025

AppLovin

Mobile-ad tech & app-monetisation platform
63.8
Palpable Score
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A Day in the Life

As a member of our backend software engineering team, you’ll solve technical challenges, including upgrading and implementing state-of-the-art software infrastructure. The team builds a high-performance, high availability, globally distributed ecosystem platform of services that in turn provide the foundation for rapid development of novel new systems that integrate into that ecosystem and improve it

Our backend systems handle billions of requests per day, and work on our mediation platform responsible for our header bidding solution, creating high-availability low-latency systems that are distributed across multiple data centers.

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The Impact You’ll Make

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Who You Are

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About the company

AppLovin

Company overview
AppLovin is an advertising technology company that builds software used by app developers and advertisers to acquire users, monetize audiences, and measure performance. The company is best known for products like MAX (mediation) and other marketing and analytics tools used in mobile-first businesses. AppLovin is publicly listed and has recently emphasized a tighter focus on the advertising business, including plans to exit parts of the games portfolio.

Locations and presence

AppLovin is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and reports employees located across 17 countries. Many early-career roles are tied to specific offices (often Palo Alto), with location requirements varying by team and job family.

Palpable Score

63.8
/ 100
AppLovin is a decent early-career pick if you want a high-intensity environment with real work early, especially in engineering and adjacent roles, and AppLovin does publish at least some new-grad roles with clear β€œ0–2 years” targeting. The score is capped because the company does not publish a clear early-career hiring roadmap and public interview feedback includes cases of time-heavy take-home work and uneven follow-up. Pay transparency is comparatively strong on some postings, but public evidence on conversions, promotions, and retention for early-career cohorts is limited.
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