Staff Software Engineer, Ads

GameChanger•New York, NY

1d•$165,000 - $185,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will help define and drive the technical strategy for our advertising platform as we expand how advertising is delivered across live sports experiences. You will serve as a technical leader for the team, shaping architecture, identifying long-term platform investments, and helping us build advertising systems that are reliable, scalable, and adaptable to new business opportunities. You will bring advertising technology expertise to help us evolve our current capabilities while preparing for more sophisticated experiences in video and server side advertising. You will work closely with Engineering, Product, Design, Data, and business partners to translate advertising opportunities into thoughtful technical strategies and scalable solutions. This role extends beyond individual project execution. You'll help identify technical opportunities and risks, establish architectural direction, mentor engineers, and influence technical decisions across teams whose systems intersect with advertising, video, and monetization. You will report to an Engineering leader in the Ads space.

Requirements

8+ years of professional software development experience, with demonstrated 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, with a strong foundation in backend engineering and experience supporting video advertising.
Experience with one or more areas of the modern advertising ecosystem, such as 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 your immediate projects and teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience with live or streaming video systems is strongly preferred.
Experience with connected TV advertising or server-side ad insertion is preferred.
Experience with Google Ad Manager or similar ad-serving platforms is preferred.
Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Redis, and PostgreSQL is preferred.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the technical strategy for our advertising platform, establishing an architecture that can evolve with our product and advertising business.
Provide technical leadership for current and future advertising capabilities, such as video ads, server-side advertising, connected TV experiences, programmatic advertising, and new ad formats.
Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to identify technical investments that unlock new advertising capabilities and revenue opportunities.
Lead architecture and system design for complex, cross-functional initiatives spanning advertising, video, backend services, clients, and data systems.
Evaluate architectural approaches and third-party advertising technologies, clearly communicating tradeoffs across scalability, reliability, user experience, implementation complexity, and business needs.
Improve the reliability, observability, scalability, and maintainability of our advertising systems and integrations.
Establish patterns and abstractions that make it easier and safer for teams to build and experiment with advertising experiences.
Partner closely with engineers across video, client, platform, data, and monetization teams to ensure advertising capabilities work effectively across our broader technical ecosystem.
Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, architectural guidance, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
Build and maintain technical documentation, architectural plans, and longer-term technical roadmaps.
Stay current on changes in the advertising technology ecosystem and help the organization understand which emerging technologies and approaches are relevant to our products.
Participate in an occasional on-call rotation with the team.

Benefits

Work remotely throughout the US or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.
Unlimited vacation policy.
Paid volunteer opportunities.
Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology.
WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.
Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly.
Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe.
Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and coverage for family/dependents.
Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans are offered through Vanguard, with an immediate company match.
Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.
Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.
Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
Family building benefits offered through Progyny.
DICK'S Sporting Goods and their family of brands teammate discount.