Senior iOS Ads Engineer - Monetization Platform

NewsBreak; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

NewsBreak is seeking a Senior iOS Engineer to own ads and monetization in our iOS stack, including the app, publisher SDK, and external ad networks. You will ensure robust ad loading, rendering, and timing, while maintaining high integrity of impressions, clicks, and billing signals.

You’ll own the client-side mediation layer, integrate major ad SDKs, and respond to production issues across vendor SDKs. Strong debugging, end-to-end ownership, and ability to work with product and QA are essential

Qualifications

• 3+ years of production iOS development in Swift and/or Objective-C.
• Owned a meaningful module end to end — design, implementation, launch, and aftermath.
• Experience with ad rendering standards or comparable rendering of third-party content in a native app.
• Strong debugging instincts and ability to investigate systems without full source access.
• Able to reason about AI-assisted coding tools and when to override them.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain iOS ad functionality across the app and publisher-facing SDK.
• Own ad rendering and experience for rich-media and native formats.
• Own viewability and accuracy of impressions, clicks, and billing signals.
• Manage client-side mediation: request, prioritize, cache, and fall back across demand sources.
• Integrate and maintain external ad SDKs with platform changes and version upgrades.
• Own production health of the iOS ad stack and diagnose rendering or stability issues.
• Measure impact by shipping changes behind experiments and verify revenue impact.

Skills

Swift

Objective-C

Ad tech

Debugging

AI tools

Ownership

Communicator

Tools

External ad SDKs (Google, Meta)

Job description

NewsBreak is seeking a Senior iOS Engineer to own ads and monetization in our iOS stack, including the app, publisher SDK, and external ad networks. You will ensure robust ad loading, rendering, and timing, while maintaining high integrity of impressions, clicks, and billing signals.

You’ll own the client-side mediation layer, integrate major ad SDKs, and respond to production issues across vendor SDKs. Strong debugging, end-to-end ownership, and ability to work with product and QA are essential