Software Engineer, Ad Experience

Role

Join the Ad Experiences team as a Full Stack Software Engineer to design, build, deploy, and maintain interactive advertising framework components and consumer-facing services used on millions of devices. The role is 100% hands-on development with a strong emphasis on software architecture, performance, and engineering best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, architect, implement, deploy, and maintain server-side and client-side components for interactive ads and ad monetization infrastructure.
• Write efficient, clean, testable, documented code and follow a test-driven / Agile approach.
• Rapidly prototype and develop consumer-facing services that run on constrained consumer devices.
• Build backend services using microservices architecture and event-driven patterns.
• Implement analytics features including reporting, aggregations, operational metrics, and customer-facing insights.
• Optimize for scaling patterns such as caching, background jobs, rate limiting, and performance tuning.
• Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, engineers, and distributed teams across sites; contribute technical proposals to improve design and architecture.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Typically requires 3+ years of related experience (or 1-2+ with a master’s, or PhD).
• At least 2 years of backend experience with Golang or a similar language in Ad Tech or related industry.
• At least 2 years of frontend experience with JavaScript and React in Ad Tech or related industry.
• Experience with event-driven systems / messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Experience building analytics features and operational metrics.
• Familiarity with scaling patterns: caching, background jobs, rate limiting, performance tuning.
• Experience building JavaScript frameworks/libraries for consumer devices with low memory footprints and a focus on performance.
• Experience with microservices-based backend services.
• Strong architectural and design skills; proficiency with version control and front-end build tools (Git, webpack, npm).
• Experience with performance optimization, responsive design, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Ability to work with geographically distributed teams and effectively communicate across teams.
• Self-directed team player with experience using coding assistant tools and vibe coding practices.

Compensation & Location

• Base pay for candidates based in Mountain View, CA: $145,000 to $170,000.

Notes

• Role emphasizes hands-on engineering, architecture excellence, and building reliable, production-ready ad technology solutions.