Software Engineer II – Ads

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

📋 Description

• Develop and deploy features aimed at publishers across Storefront, Storefront Pro, and API partners.

• Enhance the Connect / Carrot Ads API by implementing clear contracts, event management, dead-letter recovery, integration testing, and self-service documentation.

• Create controls for retailers concerning relevance, quality scores, reserve pricing, and ad-load management.

• Improve reporting and data integrity through attribution, catalog and product-ID mapping, reconciliation, and automated health checks.

• Increase reliability by defining and adhering to partner SLAs, improving observability, decreasing incidents and recovery time, while contributing to partner-health monitoring.

• Troubleshoot partner-facing serving and reporting challenges within shared serving, measurement, and quality systems.

• Collaborate with teams in Product, Enterprise Solutions, Serving, Measurement, Ads Quality, and Ads Manager.

• Utilize AI-assisted developer tools while ensuring quality and security standards are met.

• Take ownership of delivered work throughout production and during on-call responsibilities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 3 years of experience in building and managing production backend services.

• Strong understanding of API design and principles of distributed systems.

• Proficiency in a backend programming language such as Go, Ruby, or Python.

• Proven track record of delivering features from start to finish, with robust testing, observability, and operational accountability.

• Experience in debugging across service boundaries and working collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• Preferred: background in ad tech, retail media, or platforms that engage publishers/partners.

• Preferred: knowledge of Kafka, dead-letter queues, and idempotent processing.

• Preferred: experience with AWS or GCP cloud infrastructure.

• Preferred: expertise in data reconciliation, attribution, or catalog and entity mapping.

• Preferred: familiarity with partner- or customer-facing APIs, documentation, error contracts, and integration testing.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity grant for new hires.

• Annual refresh grants.

• Flexible work locations: home, office, or coffee shop.

• Regular in-person events.

• Highly competitive compensation and benefits package.