AdTech Engineer - Colombia - Contract
The Very Group1 month ago
Remote, ColombiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain real-time bidding infrastructure covering bid request/response handling, auction logic, and win notifications.
- Develop and maintain ad-serving integrations, including tag management, creative rendering, and VAST compliance.
- Design, build, and operate elastic AWS infrastructure for variable auction-driven traffic.
- Build and support Kafka or Kinesis data pipelines for bid streams, event logging, reporting, attribution, and frequency capping.
- Optimize systems for low latency, high throughput, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Own deployments, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, logging, monitoring, alerting, and production diagnostics.
- Participate in the 24/7 on-call rotation and diagnose and resolve production issues.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, business, and client stakeholders while contributing to documentation and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of professional software development experience.
- Hands-on experience building programmatic advertising systems for ad networks, SSPs, DSPs, ad exchanges, ad-tech startups, or publishers.
- Experience working in high-throughput, low-latency production environments and designing and operating AWS systems at scale.
- Experience across the full software development lifecycle, including requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations.
- Strong knowledge of OpenRTB and IAB technical standards, including ads.txt, sellers.json, VAST, and VPAID.
- Experience with the real-time bidding lifecycle, ad-server integrations, distributed production systems, and data pipelines.
- Experience with infrastructure as code using AWS CDK or Terraform.
- Must reside in Colombia, have professional English fluency, and be able to work with significant overlap with US business hours.
- Preferred qualifications include Spring Serve integration, Prebid.js or server-side header bidding, SSP or DSP platform internals, CTV/OTT ad delivery, TCF/GPP/CCPA signal handling, embedded client or distributed-team experience, and AWS CDK or Terraform experience.
Benefits
- Remote contract engagement for candidates residing in Colombia.
- The substantial contract scope may approximate a full-time workload of 40 hours per week.
- Availability is required Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time during core client business hours.
- Contractors must provide their own computer or device, design software, and reliable internet connection.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About The Very Group
The Very Group is a UK online retailer operating the Very and Littlewoods brands, selling fashion, home, electronics, and more to households across the UK and Ireland. It runs its own e-commerce and logistics platforms and offers consumer credit through a dedicated financial services arm. Headquartered in Liverpool, it is privately held and owned by The Carlyle Group.