Mobile app monetization and user acquisition across gaming and advertising
Applike group operates a vertically integrated portfolio spanning rewarded mobile gaming (JustDice, Sunday), programmatic ad delivery (adjoe), and app growth optimization (justtrack). The stack is polyglot and distributed—Java, Kotlin, Swift, React across mobile SDKs; Kafka, Spark, and DynamoDB for real-time data pipelines—reflecting a company managing high-velocity mobile traffic and ad impression volume. Active migration from QuickSight to Tableau signals operational maturity investment, while the hiring mix (10 engineering, 5 HR, 2 data) and concurrent projects around data lake aggregation, ISO certification, and multi-region HR scaling indicate rapid international expansion outpacing internal process maturity.
Notable leadership hires: Tech Lead
Applike group is a Hamburg-based company builder in mobile apps and adtech, founded in 2016. The holding structure includes four operating subsidiaries: JustDice (rewarded gaming), adjoe (programmatic advertising and user acquisition), Sunday (casual game publishing), and justtrack (mobile app analytics and growth automation). The company serves mobile app publishers and game developers seeking monetization and user acquisition solutions. Central teams provide infrastructure support across talent, finance, legal, and operations. The organization is distributed across Germany, China, and the United States, with 201–500 employees across all entities.
Java, Kotlin, Swift, React, TypeScript, and Go for application code; AWS (SQS, SNS, Kinesis), Kafka, Spark, and DynamoDB for data pipelines; MySQL and Scylla for databases; Kubernetes and Terraform for infrastructure; PyTorch and TensorFlow for ML.
Data lake aggregation pipelines, mobile SDK architecture improvements, ISO certification, market expansion into new regions, HR scaling for international growth, and feature development across their gaming and adtech products.
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