Senior Software Engineer, Ads Quality

Moloco•Menlo Park, CA

1d•$159,800 - $259,440•Onsite

About The Position

Moloco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Ads Quality to join their team. This role is crucial for advancing Moloco's Ads Quality systems, aiming to improve advertiser performance and ensure end-users see more relevant and trustworthy ads. The position focuses on enhancing the precision, fairness, and efficiency of the company's machine learning-driven ad marketplace across all Moloco products. This is an experienced engineering tech lead role that will act as a vertical lead, connecting engineering, data science, product, sales, marketing, and customers to achieve end-to-end performance improvements.

Requirements

Senior, hands-on engineer
Proven ability to lead large, ambiguous initiatives end to end
Strong communicator who can influence across technical and non-technical audiences
Comfortable operating with more breadth than depth, and switching between strategic, technical, and operational work as needed
Track record of driving outcomes directly through both technical contribution and coordination
Strong preference for ads or ad tech experience
Experience working on ads quality, traffic quality, search quality, feed quality, or adjacent quality-focused systems
Experience leading a vertical, domain, or product area where success depended on aligning multiple teams around customer and business outcomes
Experience in environments where rapid experimentation, analysis, and ideation are core to the way teams work

Responsibilities

Lead vertically focused quality initiatives from concept through launch, measurement, and iteration.
Own problems end to end, from identifying advertiser pain points to driving cross-functional execution across the stack.
Partner closely with Product, Data Science, Engineering, TPM, Sales, Marketing, and other stakeholders to ensure solutions are technically strong and commercially impactful.
Translate customer and market needs into product and engineering priorities.
Step into ambiguous, fast-moving situations and improvise effectively when new constraints or opportunities emerge.
Represent the technical and product context for key advertisers, helping internal teams and external partners align on how to improve performance.
Contribute hands-on across Moloco’s stack, with exposure to areas such as bidding logic, advertiser-facing product surfaces, and quality systems.
Help incubate new ideas, run experiments, and turn successful vertical learnings into scalable product capabilities.
Communicate clearly and persuasively, bringing partners along the journey and building alignment across a broad set of functions.