Remote Backend Engineer - Ad Signals & Data Quality

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 191,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Health benefits

401k match

Global benefits

Family planning

Mental health

Flexible vacation

Parental leave

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Software Engineer, Ad Signals to join a team focusing on backend systems supporting advertising signal delivery. This remote role emphasizes reliable data ingestion, processing, and privacy-aware design while collaborating with product, data science, and partner engineering teams.

You will help improve signal quality, troubleshoot advertiser-facing issues, and evolve systems without disrupting current customers as the platform scales.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of backend experience in scalable production systems.
• Hands-on experience with app ads signals, SKAN, or app conversion APIs.
• Strong programming, API design, distributed systems, and SQL skills.

Responsibilities

• Own backend projects for mobile measurement partner integrations, SKAN, and app conversion APIs from design through operation.
• Build scalable services for data ingestion and processing with validation and failure recovery.
• Develop tools and diagnostics for advertisers to troubleshoot signal delivery issues.
• Analyze signal quality metrics and prioritize improvements with product and data science teams.
• Collaborate with partner engineering to evolve schemas without disrupting advertisers.
• Incorporate privacy and security requirements into system design and data lifecycle management.
• Enhance engineering quality through testing, design reviews, and mentorship.

Skills

Backend engineering

API design

Distributed systems

App ads signals

Job description

Ladders is seeking a Software Engineer, Ad Signals to join a team focusing on backend systems supporting advertising signal delivery. This remote role emphasizes reliable data ingestion, processing, and privacy-aware design while collaborating with product, data science, and partner engineering teams.

You will help improve signal quality, troubleshoot advertiser-facing issues, and evolve systems without disrupting current customers as the platform scales.