Senior Software Engineer - Ads

Candidates should possess broad knowledge of ad tech, the advertising landscape, programmatic advertising, and digital marketing trends. They need good product sense, prior experience designing and launching product features, and exceptional ability to work with and refactor legacy code effectively while adapting to frequent requirement changes. Exceptional skill in debugging production issues, especially for ad impressions on remote devices, is required. Exceptional familiarity with distributed backend systems in cloud environments, including databases, caching, and application code, is necessary. Proficiency with integrating third-party software and REST APIs, even with challenging documentation or systems, is required. Proficiency in JavaScript across legacy and modern Chromium browsers, along with proficiency with SQL, data warehousing concepts, query optimization, data streaming, and role-based access control, is essential. Strong algorithmic thinking ability, particularly for developing ad fill optimization strategies, is needed. The ability to rapidly translate high-level product requirements into concrete full-stack prototypes and solutions is required. Familiarity with the VAST specification and client-side ad SDKs (e.g., PAL SDK, OM SDK, IMA SDK), familiarity with video streaming/playback technologies (including on-device) and Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI), and experience with front-end development tasks are also required.