Senior Software Engineer, Ads

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

📋 Description

• Develop scalable backend services and APIs that drive our digital merchandising platform.

• Collaborate with senior engineers to influence high-level decisions regarding architecture and design.

• Partner with Product Managers to ensure Jane’s advertising product offerings are sound, robust, and user-friendly.

• Work alongside Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers to gather, analyze, and utilize data for enhancing advertising through iterative improvements.

• Assist in communicating and implementing best practices throughout the engineering team.

• Engage in design reviews and code reviews.

• Identify and address performance bottlenecks.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 4 years of professional software engineering experience within a product-focused team.

• Exhibits senior-level ownership: navigates ambiguity independently and proactively advances work without waiting for guidance.

• Solid Computer Science fundamentals: knowledgeable in data structures, algorithms, and code design principles.

• Systems-level problem solver: adept at tackling ambiguous, complex challenges across distributed systems and infrastructure.

• Familiarity with AdTech systems, preferably in retail media, sponsored listings, or marketplace advertising. Hands-on experience with one or more areas such as ad serving and real-time decisioning, campaign pacing and budgeting, or attribution and measurement. Understands the unique constraints of AdTech, including low-latency decisioning at scale, accurate pacing and billing, and the full cycle from impression to conversion.

• Proficient with databases: knowledgeable in relational, columnar, and document-based databases, with a strong understanding of their respective strengths and ideal applications.

• Proficiency in at least one systems programming language (Go preferred, Java, etc.) with a proven ability to learn new languages and adapt to a rapidly changing technology stack.

• Strong technical communication skills: articulates ideas clearly through well-structured code, written documentation, and verbal discussions with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Naturally collaborative: eager to mentor and share knowledge while also being open to learning from others, with a genuine passion for craftsmanship and the software development process.

• Experience in small, start-up engineering teams.

• Experience in proposing, provisioning, and testing infrastructure using cloud operations tools: Terraform (preferred), CloudFormation, etc.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package and equity options.

• Remote-friendly work environment with employees located across the US and Canada.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage, 401k, unlimited PTO, and a home office stipend.