Hybrid Ad Tech Systems Engineer — Data Pipelines & APIs

Socket.dev; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) match

Professional development

Flexible work arrangements

Employee resource groups

Job summary

Hearst Magazines in New York City is seeking a Full Stack Ad Tech Developer to design and build scalable backend services and data pipelines powering advertising, audience insights, and revenue. You will develop APIs and front-end tooling with React/Node.js, and collaborate across engineering, analytics, and ad operations teams.

The role emphasizes privacy-by-design, performance optimization, and modern software practices.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in full stack software development with backend/data engineering focus.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL and JavaScript.
• Experience building apps with React and Node.js.
• Hands-on experience designing ETL workflows and data pipelines.
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP or AWS) and serverless tech.
• Familiarity with data warehouses (BigQuery/Redshift).
• Experience with digital advertising tech ecosystems (Google Ad Manager, header bidding, OpenRTB).
• Comfort using AI-assisted development tools and CI/CD practices.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and collaboration skills.
• Understanding of data privacy (GDPR/CCPA) and privacy-focused design.
• Nice to have data governance BI tools (Looker/Tableau), real-time processing, ML pipelines, or RAG.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend services processing advertising data via ETL pipelines.
• Build data ingestion, transformation, and enrichment systems with ad tech integrations.
• Develop APIs and internal tools for ad delivery, measurement, and reporting.
• Create frontend apps and tools using React and Node.js.
• Implement scalable data storage and processing across cloud platforms (GCP/AWS).
• Collaborate across engineering, analytics, product, and ad ops teams.
• Monitor and optimize apps, APIs, data pipelines, and integrations for reliability.
• Contribute to automated testing, CI/CD, and privacy-by-design practices.

Skills

Python

SQL

JavaScript

React

Node.js

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

AWS

BigQuery

Redshift

Job description

Hearst Magazines in New York City is seeking a Full Stack Ad Tech Developer to design and build scalable backend services and data pipelines powering advertising, audience insights, and revenue. You will develop APIs and front-end tooling with React/Node.js, and collaborate across engineering, analytics, and ad operations teams.

The role emphasizes privacy-by-design, performance optimization, and modern software practices.