Ad Engineering Software Engineer II — AI & Revenue Tools

The Washington Post; New York (NY); On-site; USD 99,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) match

Pension plan

Vacation and sick leave

Holidays and personal days

Parental leave

Job summary

The Washington Post is seeking a Software Engineer to join its Ad Engineering team. You will work with product, business intelligence, and advertising teams to develop software that maximizes revenue through digital advertising, while exploring AI-driven targeting and operations.

You will partner with senior engineers to build tools and integrations with ad tech vendors, and contribute to both front-end and back-end systems in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience building highly-performant, customer-facing applications.
• Proficiency in modern JavaScript development principles, especially strongly typed systems and architectures.
• Hands-on experience developing, deploying, and maintaining systems using AWS services such as ECS, EC2, RDS, S3, and Lambda.
• Exposure to DevOps technologies like Docker and CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline.
• Familiarity with developing in the digital advertising ecosystem using Prebid, Google Ad Manager, and Prebid Server platforms is desirable but not required.
• Experience with LLM-based text processing pipelines and ChatGPT-style APIs for AI-powered user experiences.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Advertising Operations, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into highly performant applications.
• Build and deploy applications on AWS.
• Follow engineering best practices and coding standards across a variety of projects.
• Establish, document, maintain, and build on best practices with LLM systems inside our organization.

Skills

JavaScript

LLM pipelines

Unit testing

Sales collaboration

Text analysis

Tools

AWS

Docker

Jenkins

Prebid

Job description

The Washington Post is seeking a Software Engineer to join its Ad Engineering team. You will work with product, business intelligence, and advertising teams to develop software that maximizes revenue through digital advertising, while exploring AI-driven targeting and operations.

You will partner with senior engineers to build tools and integrations with ad tech vendors, and contribute to both front-end and back-end systems in a fast-moving environment.