Digital Turbine

Lead Full Stack Software Engineer

Digital Turbine$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in production platforms focused on backend architecture and system design.
  • Strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, and solving complex data-processing problems.
  • Proficient in multiple programming languages (TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, etc.) and adapting to the best tool for the job.
  • Expertise in modern front-end frameworks like React and back-end service design.
  • Solid understanding of API design, data modeling, and system design principles.
  • Ability to thrive in an agile, fast-paced, owner's mindset environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop end-to-end full-stack features for campaign management and reporting.
  • Select appropriate languages and tools to keep front-end lightweight while offloading heavy computation to scalable back-end services.
  • Create and utilize well-structured APIs to enhance integration across the product architecture.
  • Take ownership of services in production, focusing on testing, performance, and observability.
  • Collaborate with product leads on scoping, estimation, and technical decision-making.
  • Guide and mentor colleagues through code reviews and architecture best practices.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment with flexibility.
  • Opportunities for mentorship and raising engineering standards.
  • Work in autonomous teams (pods) that own outcomes and roadmaps.
  • Engage with a diverse tech stack and develop a unified product architecture.
Full Job Description
Please note that Digital Turbine is a hybrid work environment-only candidates local to the posting location will be considered.

Digital Turbine runs on small, autonomous pods that own an outcome and a roadmap end to end. We hire engineers, not language specialists: we care that you can reason about systems, pick the right tool for the problem, and ship reliable software across the stack.

As a Lead Full Stack Engineer, you'll build the product surfaces that bring our marketplace together - campaign management and creation, unified dashboards and reporting, audience and asset tooling, and the APIs that connect demand to supply. You'll work across front-end, back-end, and data, contributing to the unified product architecture at the heart of our FY27 roadmap. The underlying platform requires heavy back-end engineering, low-latency optimization, and algorithmic problem-solving to manage massive throughput and real-time marketplace dynamics.

About the Lead Full Stack Software Engineer:
  • Design and build full-stack features - from responsive web front-ends to back-end services and APIs - that power campaign management, reporting, and marketplace optimization.
  • Choose the right language and tools for each problem (we run a polyglot stack), and keep the front end lightweight by pushing complex computational logic, data modeling, and heavy algorithmic weight into robust, scalable back-end services.
  • Build and consume well-designed APIs that integrate DT products into a unified architecture rather than isolated silos.
  • Own your services in production: testing, observability, performance, and on-call, treating quality as a whole-team responsibility.
  • Collaborate directly with product leads and stakeholders, contributing to scoping, estimation, and technical decisions within your pod.
  • Mentor teammates and raise engineering standards through code review, automation, and pragmatic architecture.

About you as the Lead Full Stack Software Engineer:
  • 8+ years building and shipping production platforms, with a heavy skew toward backend architecture, system design, and code optimization.
  • Strong algorithmic fundamentals, data structures, and a proven track record of solving complex data-processing or resource optimization problems.
  • Demonstrated ability to be effective in more than one language/ecosystem (e.g., TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, Scala, or C++) - you optimize for the problem, not a single tool.
  • Solid command of modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React) and back-end service design, plus relational and/or distributed data stores (MySQL, PostgreSQL, and similar).
  • Strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, testing, and system design.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-paced, agile, ownership-driven environment with limited hand-holding.

Nice to have skills:
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP), containers, and CI/CD.
  • Exposure to AdTech, dashboards/BI surfaces, or high-throughput data-driven products.
  • Experience integrating ML or data services into product workflows.

About Digital Turbine

Digital Turbine, Inc. is a mobile software company that delivers products and solutions for mobile operators, device OEMs, and third-party advertisers. The company's products include Ignite, a mobile device management solution, and SingleTap, a mobile advertising platform. Digital Turbine was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Learn more about Digital Turbine
Size
844 employees
Market Cap
$1.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$38.6 million
5 Year Trend
+79.4%
Revenue
$257.8 million
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