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Kakao Details DB and Hadoop Engineering Internship Roles

Based on the Kakao Winter Internship briefing, this summarizes the scope of work and hiring criteria for DB and Hadoop engineering roles.

·2022.10.21 00:00

Kakao Hires for Applied Analysis and Ad Recommendation Teams via Winter Internship

The Applied Analysis team focuses on creating data value, while the Ad Recommendation team handles ML-based real-time auction optimization.

·2022.10.21 00:00

Kakao Revives Internal Hackathon '24K Reunion' After Three Years

A total of 226 participants (65 teams) competed on ideas themed around the post-corona era.

·2022.10.07 00:00

Kakao Hadoop Engineering Team Hosts Small Talk on Data Roles at 42 Seoul

Engineers from Kakao's Hadoop Engineering Team held a small talk for 42 Seoul cadets, sharing insights on data roles and required competencies.

·2022.09.29 00:00

Kakao BizPlatform Development Team, New Crew Recruitment for 2022

Recruiting platform development personnel for large-scale users across four parts: transactional services, bizmessage, channel services, and smart chat.

·2022.09.06 00:00

Kakao Common Platform Development Team: Development and Operation of Common Modules for Business Platforms

Introduced the tech stack and culture of an organization focused on developing common modules based on Java, Spring, and React, aiming for evolution into SaaS.

·2022.09.05 00:00

Kakao Ad Development Team Hiring AdTech Platform Developers

Kakao's Ad Development Team has opened positions for AdTech platform development roles, including SSP and DSP.

·2022.09.05 00:00

Kakao Commerce Platform Development Team Hiring Crew for 40 Million User Services

Kakao's Commerce Platform Development Team is recruiting crew members to develop major commerce services, such as Gift, used by 40 million users, with 80% of the team having non-commerce backgrounds.

·2022.09.05 00:00

Kakao Commerce CIC Channel Development Team Launches Targeted Hiring to Build Infrastructure for 40 Million Users

Kakao Commerce CIC's Channel Development Team is conducting targeted hiring until September 26 to recruit talent for developing commerce platforms and the proprietary queue system Pacemaker for 40 million members.

·2022.09.05 00:00

Kakao Conducts 2023 Blind Recruitment for New Developers

Kakao is conducting its 2023 blind recruitment for new developers, emphasizing two coding tests and a flexible work environment.

·2022.09.01 00:00

Kakao Applies Distributed Radix Tree to MetaKage to Overcome LSMT Limitations

Kakao applied a distributed Radix Tree to MetaKage to overcome the Ordered Listing limitations of LSMT and optimized performance using Bloom Filters.

·2022.08.18 00:00

Kakao Reveals Development Journey of Internal TSDB 'TSCoke'… Performance Optimized with ART and LSS

As of August 2022, it introduced the development process and technical solutions of an internal TSDB currently managing over 300 million Series.

·2022.08.09 00:00

Kakao Electronic Certificate Reduces Initial Load by 100KB with React Router-Based Dynamic Routing

Adopting Next.js file-system routing principles to implement component lazy loading, reducing initial file size by approximately 100KB.

·2022.07.13 00:00

Kakao Releases Solutions for 5 Problems from 2022 Summer Internship Coding Test

Kakao has released solutions for the 5 problems from its 2022 summer internship coding test, which awarded points only for passing all test cases without partial credit.

·2022.07.13 00:00

Operations Tool Development Strategy for Server Developers: Applying React and GraphQL

Sharing the experience of building the frontend with React and Ant Design, designing flexible APIs by adopting Spring for GraphQL, and establishing UX guidelines during operations tool development.

·2022.07.04 00:00

Kakao Data Information Platform Team: Platformizing the Entire Process from Data Collection to ML/AI Utilization

We operate an internal SaaS platform that supports the entire process from data collection to ML/AI utilization for Kakao crew members.

·2022.06.16 00:00

Kakao Recommendation Team Operates Large-Scale Platform Processing 1.7 Billion Recommendations Daily Across 15 Services

The Kakao Recommendation Team processes 1.7 billion recommendation requests daily across 15 services within 30–50ms, focusing on long-term service growth centered on revisit rates while enhancing technical accessibility through SaaSification and open-source releases.

·2022.06.16 00:00

TalkFE Shares Transition from Redux-Saga to React Query for MySubscription Service

The team shared their experience applying React Query v3.34.0 to reduce state management complexity in a subscription service heavily dependent on server data.

·2022.06.13 00:00

Kakao Ad Recommendation Team Operates MLOps-Based Serving System for Large-Scale RTB Optimization

The Kakao Ad Recommendation Team integrates six optimization models and real-time data pipelines into an MLOps structure to build an advanced serving system for large-scale RTB environments.

·2022.06.13 00:00

Kakao Applied Analytics Team Reveals Roles and Collaborative Culture to Maximize Data Asset Value

The team productizes everything from user profiling to search and recommendation modules, breaking down role boundaries between analysts and engineers.

·2022.06.13 00:00