Staff Software Engineer

Index Exchange•San Francisco, CA

8d•$245,000 - $285,000•Hybrid

About The Position

At Index Exchange, we’re reinventing how digital advertising works—at scale. As a global advertising supply-side platform, we empower the world’s leading media owners and marketers to thrive in a programmatic, privacy-first ecosystem. We’re a proud industry pioneer with over 20 years of experience accelerating the ad technology evolution. Our proprietary tech is trusted by some of the world’s largest brands and media owners and plays a crucial role in keeping the internet open, accessible, and largely free. We process more than 750 billion real-time auctions every day with ultra-low latency. Our platform is vertically integrated from servers to networks and runs primarily on our own metal and cloud infrastructure. This end-to-end infrastructure is designed to provide both stability and agility, enabling us to adapt quickly as the market evolves. At the core of it all is our engineering-first culture. Our engineers tackle internet-scale problems across tight-knit, global teams. From moving petabytes of data and optimizing with AI to making real-time infrastructure decisions, Indexers have the agency and influence to shape the future of advertising. We move fast, build thoughtfully, and stay grounded in our core values. We’re looking for Staff and Principal-level software engineers to join teams in our Application Platform, Channels, and Exchange Products divisions. These are product engineering teams with openings for backend, frontend and fullstack skillsets. Ultimate team fit will depend on the experience that an individual candidate is bringing to Index, their interests, and the needs of our different teams.

Requirements

Strong software engineering skills, including proficiency in programming languages such as Golang, Java, C#, Typescript (React)
Demonstrable expertise in complex back-end or front-end systems including experience in designing, developing and testing high quality services
Excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to think differently, and an understanding that compromise, negotiation and practicality are important qualities
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
Extensive experience leading impactful, cross-team technical projects from start to finish

Nice To Haves

Experience in ad tech, programmatic advertising, or related high-scale, low-latency systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

Working on cutting edge programmatic ad tech systems that handle hundreds of billions of transactions every day
Working on systems and tools that allow our partners to easily interact with our exchange including work on Open-Source projects
Designing, writing, and testing robust and reliable code
Working closely with product to deeply understand the domain and identify opportunities for improvements
Finding practical technological solutions
Analyzing and estimating work in an agile environment
Fostering a collaborative environment by bringing people together to come up with better designs and approaches to complex problems
Suggest, promote and implement improvements to coding standards and practices

Benefits

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents
Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules
Competitive retirement matching plans
Equity packages
Generous parental leave available to birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents
Annual well-being allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities
Commuter benefits and discounts, where available
Employee assistance program
Mental health first aid program that provides an in-the-moment point of contact and reassurance
One day of volunteer time off per year and a donation-matching program
Bi-weekly town halls and regular community-led team events
Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning
A workplace that supports a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment