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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Creative Serving Team Job at Liftoff Mobile, Inc

Liftoff Mobile, Inc
California, MO Full Time
POSTED ON 1/13/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/9/2025

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Creative Serving Team

Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.

Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.

The Creative Serving team maintains and operates mission critical systems involved in every ad serving across Liftoff’s product line. Our systems are foundational and fundamental for Liftoff to function and thrive. As a senior staff engineer, you will build and maintain deep, strategic integration with our partner exchanges, assure impeccable uptime and drive cost effective content delivery world-wide. This includes close collaboration with our internal real time bidding (RTB) Exchange and SDK to help enable Liftoff Exclusive advertising capabilities.

As a senior member of our staff, you will play a pivotal role in championing our engineering culture and forging solid partnerships with our commercial and product teams. Your influence will extend to shaping our architectural planning and roadmap, ensuring we stay ahead in the dynamic ad tech ecosystem. Your specific responsibilities will include :

  • Lead the Evolution of Our Ad Serving Architecture : Collaborate with fellow senior engineers to co-own and continuously evolve our real-time ad serving architecture. Utilize your proven track record in managing and advancing large backend systems to set a clear vision and successfully drive your team to achieve it.
  • Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration : Work seamlessly with various departments to define requirements and develop a long-term roadmap for our systems. Your ability to bridge technical and business needs will be crucial in aligning our goals and ensuring cohesive progress.
  • Optimize and Innovate Infrastructure : Take the lead in continuously optimizing and streamlining our ad serving infrastructure. Ensure maximum uptime, enhance visibility, and drive cost efficiency to maintain our competitive edge.
  • Engage in High-Impact Technical Discussions : Lead code reviews, architectural discussions, and technical decision-making processes that impact our entire tech stack. Your insights will be instrumental in shaping our technology landscape.
  • Elevate Coding Standards and Best Practices : Help define and elevate our coding standards, development processes, and best practices. Your commitment to excellence will foster a culture of high-quality engineering across the team.
  • Mentor and Inspire Team Members : Lead and mentor other engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and collaboration. Your guidance will empower your team to reach new heights and deliver extraordinary results.
  • Shape Our Creative Serving Strategy : Contribute to defining and executing our long-term Creative Serving strategy and roadmap. Your strategic vision will help steer our efforts towards innovative and impactful solutions.

Requirements :

  • 12 years of software engineering experience
  • 5 years in a mission critical technical team lead role.
  • Knowledge of various ad formats (e.g., display, video, native) and technologies like VAST, VPAID, and MRAID.
  • Experience with video compression and streaming via CDNs.
  • Prior experience with mission critical systems. Preferably creative serving in the ad-tech space.
  • Deep knowledge of the ad tech ecosystem, real time bidding (RTB) protocol.
  • Good communicator, empathetic and focused listener.
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
  • Experience with Clojure is a plus.
  • Location :

    This role is eligible for full-time remote work in one of our entities : CA or WA State.

    Compensation :

    Liftoff offers all employees a full compensation package that includes equity and health / vision / dental benefits associated with your country of residence. Base compensation will vary based on candidate location and experience. The following are our base salary ranges for this role :

    SF Bay Area, NYC, Los Angeles / Orange County : $220,000 - $275,000

    Seattle / Olympia, San Diego, Santa Barbara : $200,000 - $255,000

    Working at Liftoff is fast-paced, fun, and challenging, and we thrive on innovation. Come join the rocket ship and help shape the future of the mobile app ecosystem with us!

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