Tech Lead / Software Engineer - Yobi Ad Platform

Yobi; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Base Salary

Meaningful equity & financial upside

Annual bonus based on performance

Health, Dental, Vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

401k with company match

Job summary

A Behavioral AI company is seeking a Tech Lead / Senior Software Engineer to lead the design and implementation of their advertising platform. This role involves working on low-latency decisioning, data pipelines, and mentoring engineers while spending significant time building systems. The ideal candidate has experience in leading projects, deep systems knowledge, and fluency in compiled programming languages. The position offers flexible work arrangements in New York, fully remote or hybrid.

Qualifications

• Experience leading multi-person or multi-team projects.
• Deep systems experience with distributed, high-throughput systems.
• Strong with compiled languages, fluent in Go, Rust, C++, Scala, or Java.
• Understanding of observability, alerting, and CI/CD practices.
• Ability to mentor and lead teams effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of the advertising platform.
• Work on low-latency decisioning, data pipelines, and orchestration.
• Own a major product bet while mentoring other engineers.

Skills

Leading multi-person projects

Distributed systems experience

Fluency in compiled languages

Architectural ownership

Operational maturity

Mentorship and leadership

Startup mindset

Tools

Go

Rust

C++

Scala

Java

Job description

Yobi is a rapidly growing Behavioral AI company on a mission to ethically democratize the benefits of data and AI.

Since 2019, we have built one of the largest consented behavioral datasets in the United States, extending far beyond the walled gardens of Big Tech. Unlike traditional LLM companies, Yobi builds foundation models of human behavior grounded in real-world actions such as purchases and store visits.

Our private-by-design modeling enables state-of-the‑art personalization and decisioning for leading brands and agencies while protecting privacy, safety, and ethics.

Today, we are focused on bringing the performance of closed‑web user acquisition to the open web and connected TV, giving brands walled‑garden results without the walls.

At our core, Yobi is building the behavioral intelligence layer for any system that makes a personalization decision.

Working at Yobi

We’re at an inflection point—customer adoption is accelerating, but there’s still room to shape the architecture and culture from the ground up. Engineers here own major surface areas, build 0→1 systems in large‑scale data and model infrastructure, and help define how Behavioral AI scales ethically and effectively.

Highlights:

• Well‑funded with 5+ years of runway. At the same time, we are scaling revenue quickly and project to be breakeven in 2026.

• Partnerships with Microsoft and Databricks

• Fully remote or hybrid from several hubs (SF Bay Area, Seattle, NYC)

• World‑class team of Machine Learning experts who worked on cutting edge infra and recommender systems @ Amazon, Uber, Twitter, Meta, etc.

• Product and Go‑To‑Market teams who have taken ideas from concept to 9 figure revenue streams

Benefits:

• Competitive Base Salary

• Meaningful equity & financial upside - a real % of the company

• Annual bonus target based on personal and company performance

• Health, Dental, Vision - most plans will pay little to 0 out of pocket

• Unlimited PTO - we care about impact, not tracking days you’re out

• 401k with company match %

About The Role

As the Tech Lead / Senior Software Engineer for the Yobi Ad Platform, you’ll be responsible for leading the design and implementation of the systems that power our real‑time ML‑based advertising stack. This is a senior role where you will own a major product bet, mentor other engineers, and drive architectural direction—while still spending more than half of your time building.

You’ll work across low‑latency decisioning, data pipelines, and service orchestration layers to make our platform reliable, scalable, and developer‑friendly. The work spans real‑time bidding systems, cloud‑native infrastructure, and reproducible deployment tooling.

What it takes to succeed in this role:

• You have experience leading multi‑person or even multi‑team projects.

• You know when to empower/influence another person or team, and when to roll up your sleeves and implement it yourself

• Deep systems experience. You’ve built or scaled distributed, high‑throughput, low‑latency systems—ideally in advertising, recommendations, or another real‑time domain.

• Strong with compiled languages. You’re fluent in one or more of Go, Rust, C++, Scala, or Java, and write code with clarity, correctness, and performance in mind.

• Architectural ownership. You can design clean interfaces, modular service boundaries, and deployment patterns that scale with product and team growth.

• Operational maturity. You understand observability, alerting, and reproducibility, and you treat CI/CD and infrastructure as first‑class citizens.

• Mentorship and leadership. You lead by example, elevate those around you, and turn ambiguity into clarity and action.

• Startup mindset. You balance strong technical standards with pragmatism—you know when to ship and when to refactor.

We prioritize attitude, culture, and general (technical) fit over matching perfectly into one of our job descriptions. If our mission and work resonates with you, we encourage you to apply. Tell us how you can help drive our products forward, even if you don’t feel like you are a perfect fit for some of the listings.