Senior Software Engineer, Creatives - Real-Time AdTech

Jobgether; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work-from-home reimbursement

Access to WeWork locations where avail

Job summary

Partner Company, listed on behalf of a partner, seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Creatives in the United States to build high-performance, low-latency distributed systems within a programmatic bidding environment.

You will collaborate with ML engineers, Product teams, and other stakeholders to deliver scalable backends and microservices, driving platform performance and customer outcomes in real time.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development in high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• 3 years of AdTech/MarTech experience in high-scale environments.
• Proficiency in Go or similar languages (C, Java, Scala, Rust).
• Experience deploying large-scale ML models and real-time inference.
• Strong CS fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and performance.
• Experience with multiple databases and performance trade-offs.
• Designing scalable backend systems under demanding workloads and latency requirements.
• Analytical, data-driven problem solving with experimentation.
• Curiosity for modern tech and cross-team collaboration.
• Bonus: graphics, GPU programming, game theory, or financial trading systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and collaborate with engineers to design, build, optimize, and evolve large-scale programmatic bidding systems.
• Apply analytical and data-driven methods to solve performance challenges.
• Continuously experiment to optimize programmatic bidding performance with quantitative analysis.
• Partner with ML engineers to implement innovative ML-driven solutions.
• Design distributed systems that handle massive request volumes with millisecond latency.
• Build and improve scalable microservices and backend systems for the advertising pipeline.
• Collaborate with Product teams to deliver capabilities that boost performance and outcomes.
• Promote operational excellence and rigorous engineering practices across teams.
• Clearly communicate ideas, trade-offs, and proposals while incorporating feedback.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Low latency

Java

Machine learning

Data structures

Databases

Performance optimization

Collaboration

Job description

Partner Company, listed on behalf of a partner, seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Creatives in the United States to build high-performance, low-latency distributed systems within a programmatic bidding environment.

You will collaborate with ML engineers, Product teams, and other stakeholders to deliver scalable backends and microservices, driving platform performance and customer outcomes in real time.