Staff Software Engineer, Ads

The role

You will define and drive the technical strategy for the advertising platform. You will serve as a technical leader shaping architecture and building reliable, scalable advertising systems.

What you will do

• Define and drive the technical strategy for the advertising platform.
• Provide technical leadership for advertising capabilities like video ads and programmatic advertising.
• Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to identify technical investments.
• Lead architecture and system design for cross-functional initiatives.
• Evaluate architectural approaches and third-party advertising technologies.
• Improve reliability, observability, scalability, and maintainability of advertising systems.
• Establish patterns and abstractions for building advertising experiences.
• Partner with engineers across video, client, platform, data, and monetization teams.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, architectural guidance, and code reviews.
• Build and maintain technical documentation and roadmaps.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Demonstrated technical leadership on complex or large-scale systems.
• Experience designing and evolving distributed, high-scale production systems.
• Professional experience architecting and delivering advertising technology systems or integrations.
• Strong foundation in backend engineering and experience supporting video advertising.
• Experience with one or more areas of the modern advertising ecosystem, such as ad serving, video ad delivery, SSAI/CSAI, VAST, programmatic advertising or header bidding.
• Experience leading architecture and technical strategy across projects involving multiple engineers or teams.
• Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, reliability, observability, and system performance.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical decisions.

Nice to have

• Experience with live or streaming video systems
• Experience with connected TV advertising or server-side ad insertion
• Experience with Google Ad Manager or similar ad-serving platforms
• Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Redis, and PostgreSQL

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation policy
• Paid volunteer opportunities
• Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years
• WFH stipend - $500 annually
• Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend through Holisticly
• Monthly lifestyle stipend through Fringe
• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and coverage for family/dependents
• Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans with immediate company match
• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life
• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability
• Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Family building benefits offered through Progyny

Before you apply

• Unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC
• Please refrain from using AI tools during interviews and assessments

About the company

GameChanger is a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City. They build products to help families experience youth sports moments.