Staff Software Engineer: Ad Tech Leader (Remote)

Openkrill

United States

Remote

USD 165,000 - 185,000

Full time

10 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Remote work United States

Unlimited vacation

Technology stipend

WFH stipend

Wellness & learning stipend

Retirement plan

Life insurance

Parental leave

Progyny family building benefits

Employee discounts

Job summary

GameChanger, a remote-first tech company based in New York City, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help define the technical strategy for our advertising platform as we expand live sports experiences.

You will lead architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate across Engineering, Product, Data, and business partners to deliver scalable, reliable ads systems, including video and server-side advertising and new formats.

Qualifications

8+ years of professional software development experience with leadership on complex or large-scale systems.
Experience designing distributed, high-scale production systems.
Experience architecting advertising tech systems or integrations, with backend focus.
Experience with SSAI/CSAI, VAST, programmatic ad tech.
Experience leading architecture across multiple engineers/teams.
Strong API, distributed systems, reliability, observability, and performance knowledge.
Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing decisions beyond projects.
Live/streaming video experience preferred.
Connected TV ad or server-side ad insertion experience preferred.
Experience with Google Ad Manager or similar ad-serving platforms preferred.
Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Redis, PostgreSQL preferred.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the technical strategy for our advertising platform, establishing an architecture that can evolve with our product and advertising business.
Provide technical leadership for current and future advertising capabilities, such as video ads, server-side advertising, connected TV experiences, programmatic advertising, and new ad formats.
Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to identify technical investments that unlock new advertising capabilities and revenue opportunities.
Lead architecture and system design for complex, cross-functional initiatives spanning advertising, video, backend services, clients, and data systems.
Evaluate architectural approaches and third-party advertising technologies, clearly communicating tradeoffs across scalability, reliability, user experience, implementation complexity, and business needs.
Improve the reliability, observability, scalability, and maintainability of our advertising systems and integrations.
Establish patterns and abstractions that make it easier and safer for teams to build and experiment with advertising experiences.
Partner closely with engineers across video, client, platform, data, and monetization teams to ensure advertising capabilities work effectively across our broader technical ecosystem.
Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, architectural guidance, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
Build and maintain technical documentation, architectural plans, and longer-term technical roadmaps.
Stay current on changes in the advertising technology ecosystem and help the organization understand which emerging technologies and approaches are relevant to our products.
Participate in an occasional on-call rotation with the team.