Staff Software Engineer – Remote Ads Platform & Architecture

GameChanger; United States; Remote; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work US

Unlimited vacation

Volunteer opportunities

Technology stipend

WFH stipend

Wellness stipend

Fringe stipend

Health benefits

401K with company match

Life insurance

Disability leave

Parental leave

Family building benefits

Employee discounts

Job summary

GameChanger is a remote-first tech company based in New York City, seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical strategy for our advertising platform. You will lead architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, design, data, and business partners to build scalable ad systems.

You will help evolve video and server-side advertising capabilities, partner with teams across the stack, and drive architectural decisions that impact the platform for years to come.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development with leadership on large-scale systems.
• Experience designing distributed, high-scale production systems.
• Architecting and delivering advertising technology systems or integrations with backend focus.
• Experience in ad serving, video ad delivery, SSAI/CSAI, VAST, programmatic advertising or header bidding.
• Leading architecture and strategy across multi-engineer projects.
• Strong API design, distributed systems, reliability, observability, and performance knowledge.
• Mentoring senior engineers and influencing decisions beyond your team.
• Experience with live/streaming video is preferred; connected TV or server-side ad insertion is a plus.
• Experience with Google Ad Manager or similar ad-serving platforms is preferred.
• Proficiency with TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Redis, and PostgreSQL is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical strategy for the advertising platform and architecture.
• Provide technical leadership for current and future advertising capabilities (video ads, server-side ads, CTV, programmatic).
• Identify investments that unlock new advertising capabilities and revenue opportunities.
• Lead architecture and system design for cross-functional initiatives across advertising, video, backend, clients, and data.
• Evaluate architectural approaches and third-party ad tech, communicating tradeoffs.
• Improve reliability, observability, scalability, and maintainability of advertising systems.
• Establish patterns and abstractions to simplify building ad experiences.
• Partner with engineers across video, platform, data, and monetization to ensure cohesive capabilities.
• Mentor engineers through reviews, architectural guidance, and knowledge sharing.
• Create technical docs, architectural plans, and long-term roadmaps.
• Stay current on ad tech ecosystem changes and relevant emerging tech.
• Participate in occasional on-call rotations.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architecture design

Distributed systems

API design

Video ads

Programmatic ads

Node.js

TypeScript

AWS

Redis

PostgreSQL

Mentoring

Advertising tech

Google Ad Manager

Tools

Google Ad Manager

Ad tech platforms

Video delivery tech

Job description

GameChanger is a remote-first tech company based in New York City, seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical strategy for our advertising platform. You will lead architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, design, data, and business partners to build scalable ad systems.

You will help evolve video and server-side advertising capabilities, partner with teams across the stack, and drive architectural decisions that impact the platform for years to come.