Lead Software Engineer, Ads (Remote)

Jane Technologies

$175K — $195K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience in a product-focused setting.
  • 2+ years in a leadership role with a proven track record of team-driven project delivery.
  • Demonstrated ownership skills, effectively maneuvering ambiguity to meet business objectives.
  • Experience with AdTech systems, particularly in retail media and associated ad technologies.
  • Proficient problem solver for complex, high-scale systems and infrastructures.
  • Strong fundamentals in Computer Science focusing on data structures and algorithms.
  • Experience in at least one system language; Go preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team in developing scalable services and APIs for a digital merchandising platform.
  • Collaborate with technical leaders to prioritize projects and align with strategic goals.
  • Make architectural and design decisions for the ads platform, ensuring team consensus.
  • Enhance advertising product offerings alongside Product Managers to ensure usability.
  • Work with Data Scientists to analyze and iterate on advertising data for improvement.
  • Establish and maintain engineering standards for code quality and processes.
  • Conduct design and code reviews to ensure high technical standards.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive compensation package and equity options.
  • Remote-friendly work culture with employees across the US and Canada.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance, alongside a 401k plan.
  • Unlimited PTO and a stipend for home office setups.
Full Job Description
What You Will Do

  • Lead a team of software engineers building scalable services, APIs, and SDKs that power our digital merchandising platform.
  • Work cross-functionally with other technical leads to establish shared prioritization frameworks and ensure delivery stays aligned with roadmap goals
  • Drive architecture and design decisions for the ads platform, setting technical direction and building consensus across the team in conjunction with staff engineers
  • Work with Product Managers to make Jane's advertising product offerings sound, robust and easy to use.
  • Work with Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers to collect data, analyze data, and use data to improve advertising through iterations.
  • Own and evolve engineering standards for the team, including code quality, review culture, and technical process
  • Perform and participate in design reviews and code reviews.
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks through delegation.
  • Manage and grow a team of 3-4 engineers through regular 1:1s, goal-setting, and performance feedback
  • Partner with engineering leadership on hiring: help define roles, evaluate candidates, and assess technical leveling
  • Identify gaps in team capability or process and propose concrete improvements. You don't wait to be asked.


Qualifications

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience in a product-centered team.
  • 2+ years in a lead or people-management role, with a track record of shipping meaningful work through a team, not just as an individual contributor,
  • Demonstrates lead-level ownership: navigates ambiguity with the team and leadership. Proactively moves work forward against business goals.
  • Experience with AdTech systems, ideally retail media, sponsored listings, or marketplace advertising. Hands-on with one or more of: ad serving and real-time decisioning, campaign pacing and budgeting, or attribution and measurement. You understand the constraints that make AdTech distinct: low-latency decisioning at scale, accurate pacing and billing, and closing the loop from impression to conversion.
  • Systems-level problem solver: comfortable navigating ambiguous, high-complexity challenges across distributed systems and infrastructure.
  • Strong Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and code design principles.
  • Proficiency in at least one system language (Go preferred, Java, etc.) with a demonstrated ability to pick up new languages and adapt to a rapidly evolving stack.
  • Database fluency: familiar with relational, columnar, and document-based databases with a strong sense of their respective strengths and ideal use cases.
  • Strong technical communication: expresses ideas clearly through well-crafted code, written documentation, and team communication with both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Collaborative by nature: as eager to mentor and share knowledge as to learn from others, with a genuine passion for craft and how great software gets built.
  • Experience proposing, provisioning and testing infrastructure with cloud ops: Terraform (preferred), Cloudformation, etc.


$175,000 - $195,000 a year

The compensation range for this position is $175,000 - $195,000 annually in addition to benefits and equity. The starting compensation is based on various factors such as skills, experience, training, and business needs. The range of a role and compensation provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop at Jane.

Our Benefits:

Great compensation package and equity

Remote friendly work environment with employees throughout the US and Canada

Health, Dental, Vision, 401k, Unlimited PTO, and home office stipend

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