1 day ago
Seoul, Korea, SouthStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for key connected TV initiatives and influence architecture, engineering standards, and long-term platform strategy.
- Lead complex cross-functional projects from requirements definition and technical design through implementation, launch, and post-launch improvement.
- Design, implement, and operate scalable backend services, APIs, data systems, and workflows for CTV advertising products.
- Translate ambiguous customer and business problems into technical solutions while balancing product impact, engineering quality, timelines, and operational cost.
- Partner with Product, Data, ML, UX, and Engineering teams to define scope, align stakeholders, and make technical and product trade-offs.
- Improve systems for managing, delivering, measuring, and optimizing CTV advertising campaigns and customer workflows.
- Improve reliability, performance, scalability, and observability through testing, metrics, logging, monitoring, incident response, and operational reviews.
- Drive design reviews, share best practices, promote maintainability, and mentor engineers across levels.
- Represent the team in broader technical discussions and align execution with long-term product and engineering goals.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building and operating backend systems, platforms, or user-facing products at scale.
- Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, Go, Kotlin, C++, or Python.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, data structures, algorithms, and system design.
- Experience designing and operating reliable, high-throughput production services and APIs.
- Experience with relational or NoSQL databases and large-scale data systems such as BigQuery, Bigtable, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.
- Track record of leading complex technical initiatives across multiple components, teams, or disciplines.
- Ability to make sound technical decisions in ambiguous situations and clearly communicate rationale, trade-offs, and expected impact.
- Experience collaborating with Product, Data, ML, UX, and Engineering partners to shape product direction and execution.
- Experience driving projects end-to-end through launch, operation, and continuous improvement.
- Experience mentoring engineers and influencing engineering practices, team culture, or technical strategy beyond the immediate team.
- Fluent verbal and written English communication skills for leading technical discussions with global and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Preferred experience with connected TV, streaming media, digital advertising, ad measurement, audience targeting, or related domains.
- Preferred understanding of campaign delivery, reach, frequency, attribution, measurement, reporting, optimization, and performance trade-offs.
- Preferred experience with distributed systems, real-time or near-real-time processing, high-volume data pipelines, or latency-sensitive services.
- Preferred familiarity with GCP, BigQuery, Dataflow, Kafka, Beam, or Spark.
- Preferred experience integrating data pipelines, schemas, data contracts, analytics, and reporting into customer-facing products.
- Preferred experience defining reliability practices such as SLIs/SLOs, capacity planning, backfill strategies, cost management, and incident response.
- Preferred experience working in global or multi-region environments and influencing technical direction across organizational boundaries.
- Preferred experience building inclusive, collaborative teams and developing engineers’ technical and leadership capabilities.
Benefits
- Moloco offers benefits and well-being programs designed to support employees and their families, with an emphasis on inclusion, growth, collaboration, and employee care.
Tech Stack
Apache BeamApache KafkaApache SparkC++GoGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKotlinMySQLPostgreSQLPython
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About MOLOCO
Moloco builds AI-driven advertising and commerce media software for mobile app marketers, retailers/marketplaces, and streaming services. Its products include Moloco Ads (a performance-focused DSP) and platforms that let retailers and streamers run their own ad businesses, with revenue from ad spend and platform fees. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Menlo Park, it is privately held with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia.