Lead Software Engineer, Ads (Remote)
Hybrid · Santa Cruz, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead a team of software engineers building scalable services, APIs, and SDKs that power Jane Technologies' advertising platform. Drive architecture and design decisions for the ads product, collaborate with Product Managers to define robust offerings, work with Data Scientists and ML Engineers to leverage data for improvements, own engineering standards and code quality, participate in design and code reviews, identify performance bottlenecks, and grow a 3-4 person team through regular feedback and hiring collaboration.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience in a product-centered team
- 2+ years in a lead or people-management role
- Experience with AdTech systems, ideally retail media, sponsored listings, or marketplace advertising
- Hands-on with ad serving and real-time decisioning, campaign pacing and budgeting, or attribution and measurement
- Systems-level problem solving across distributed systems and infrastructure
- Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, code design principles
- Proficiency in at least one system language (Go preferred, Java, etc.)
- Database fluency: relational, columnar, and document-based databases
- Strong technical communication and collaboration
- Experience with infrastructure provisioning and cloud ops (Terraform preferred)
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