Senior Software Developer – Ad Tech

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the architecture. Design, construct, and enhance the systems that support our advertising stack.

• Establish technical direction. Influence critical decisions regarding the construction and scalability of our advertising systems.

• Resolve complex challenges. Lead the effort to address the most intricate issues, such as real-time bidding bottlenecks, data synchronization failures, and broken platform integrations.

• Collaborate with product teams. Work directly with advertising product owners to influence development priorities.

• Set the benchmark. Mentor developers and define the standards for excellence in development practices.

• Provide strategic advice to leadership. Collaborate with our leadership team on long-term technical strategies and the privacy and data-handling frameworks that guide our operations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive, hands-on experience in the advertising field — including OpenRTB and Pre-bid, server-side and header bidding, bidstream enrichment (identity, audience, content, and supply-chain signals), ad decisioning, SSP/DSP partnerships, and video/CTV delivery including server-side ad insertion.

• Strong fundamentals in programming and architecture that apply across various technology stacks.

• Proven experience in building data pipelines and real-time systems at scale, with a deep understanding of the latency and throughput trade-offs associated with handling billions of requests daily.

• Ability to evaluate and simplify unfamiliar architectures by identifying systemic weaknesses.

• Proactive in anticipating significant technical and regulatory changes, incorporating them into architectural decisions from the outset.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully company-funded health, vision, dental, EFAP, and life insurance coverage, including access to virtual doctor visits through Maple.

• Matching contributions to the pension plan.

• A flexible Health Spending Account and/or Lifestyle Spending Account.

• A competitive compensation package aligned with experience.

• Weekly sessions for sharing projects and technology insights.

• Free access to a diverse range of training materials, including Udemy Business.

• A team-oriented educational strategy that includes a professional development allowance.

• Regular and frequent check-ins with leadership.