Staff Software Engineer, Ads
GameChanger4 hours ago
Base Salary
$165k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical strategy and evolving architecture for the advertising platform.
- Provide technical leadership for video ads, server-side advertising, connected TV, programmatic advertising, and new ad formats.
- Lead architecture and system design for cross-functional initiatives spanning advertising, video, backend services, clients, and data systems.
- Evaluate architectural approaches and third-party advertising technologies while communicating technical and business tradeoffs.
- Improve the reliability, observability, scalability, and maintainability of advertising systems and integrations.
- Establish reusable patterns and abstractions for building and experimenting with advertising experiences.
- Partner with video, client, platform, data, and monetization teams to integrate advertising capabilities across the ecosystem.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, architectural guidance, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
- Maintain technical documentation, architectural plans, and long-term technical roadmaps.
- Participate in an occasional team on-call rotation.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software development experience with technical leadership on complex or large-scale systems.
- Experience designing and evolving distributed, high-scale production systems.
- Professional experience architecting and delivering advertising technology systems or integrations, including backend engineering and video advertising.
- Experience with ad serving, video ad delivery, SSAI/CSAI, VAST, programmatic advertising, or header bidding.
- Experience leading architecture and technical strategy across projects involving multiple engineers or teams.
- Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, reliability, observability, and system performance.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical decisions beyond immediate projects and teams.
- Strongly preferred: experience with live or streaming video systems.
- Preferred: connected TV advertising, server-side ad insertion, or Google Ad Manager and similar ad-serving platforms.
- Preferred: experience with TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Redis, and PostgreSQL.
Benefits
- Remote work throughout the US or work from the Manhattan, NY office; hiring is unavailable in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC.
- Unlimited vacation policy and paid volunteer opportunities.
- $4,000 technology stipend every two years after start and $500 annual work-from-home stipend.
- Monthly physical, mental, wellness, learning, and lifestyle stipends.
- Medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and family/dependent health coverage.
- Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans through Vanguard with an immediate company match.
- Basic, supplemental, and dependent life insurance plus short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Company-paid parental leave of up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Family-building benefits through Progyny and a DICK'S Sporting Goods and family brands teammate discount.
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About GameChanger
GameChanger builds mobile apps for youth sports that provide live scoring, video streaming, stats, and team communication for sports like baseball and softball. The company monetizes through subscriptions for premium features and is part of DICK'S Sporting Goods after a 2016 acquisition. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York City, GameChanger’s platform supports millions of hours of youth sports livestreams and highlight clips each year.