Senior Software Engineer, Ad Code

Raptive•New York, NY

4d•$165,000 - $200,000

About The Position

Raptive is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Ad Code Core Engineering team. The role builds and evolves the technology that powers advertising across publisher sites, including high-performance JavaScript and TypeScript libraries used in browsers across thousands of sites. The engineer will develop advertising features and integrations at significant scale, prioritizing performance, reliability, and maintainability, and contribute across different areas of Raptive’s AdTech product. This role calls for technical leadership, ownership, and an AI-forward approach to software development. The engineer will lead projects from ambiguity through delivery, collaborate across teams and with stakeholders, use data to assess business outcomes, and help improve engineering practices and AI-enabled workflows. The position may involve balancing multiple projects or responsibilities as priorities evolve.

Requirements

Strong professional experience with JavaScript and TypeScript and modern software development practices.
Passion for maintainable code, automated testing, performance, and thoughtful software architecture.
Extensive experience integrating AI into day-to-day software development and commitment to staying current with evolving AI tools, capabilities, and engineering practices.
Ability to independently navigate ambiguous problems, develop a technical approach, and drive projects through completion.
Strong understanding of web technologies, including browser behavior, performance, debugging, and web APIs.
Strong ownership and accountability, including communicating with stakeholders, identifying blockers and risks, and following work through to its outcome.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, including explaining technical concepts, building alignment, and working effectively across teams.
Experience applying software design patterns and engineering best practices thoughtfully.
Ability to understand business objectives and balance impact, effort, risk, and long-term maintainability in engineering decisions.
Experience leading significant projects or features from concept through launch and measuring their results.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in AdTech or a strong understanding of the digital advertising ecosystem.
Experience with header bidding, Prebid.js, Google Ad Manager, identity, regulatory, or programmatic advertising technologies.

Responsibilities

Build and evolve high-performance JavaScript and TypeScript libraries that run in browsers across thousands of publisher sites.
Develop advertising features and integrations at significant scale, focusing on performance, reliability, and maintainability.
Lead projects from ambiguity through delivery by defining technical approaches, identifying risks, making tradeoffs, and driving work toward measurable outcomes.
Own work through development, testing, release, measurement, and iteration.
Work with Product, Engineering, Quality, Data, and other stakeholders to clarify requirements, communicate progress and risks, and make informed technical decisions.
Use AI in the engineering workflow to improve development speed and quality, exercising judgment in selecting and applying AI tools.
Develop repeatable AI-enabled workflows and engineering practices that help developers and AI agents work effectively.
Work across areas of the AdTech product as priorities evolve, sometimes balancing multiple projects or responsibilities.
Advocate for engineering practices in maintainability, testing, performance, observability, and documentation.
Understand business outcomes, use data to evaluate feature impact, and contribute ideas for technical, product, and process improvements.
Support other engineers through collaboration, code review, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.