Saatchi & Saatchi

Senior Software Engineer

Saatchi & Saatchi$88K — $165K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 6+ years of experience in backend and/or full stack software development.
  • Strong backend expertise in Java, with experience in high-performance, distributed systems.
  • Experience with streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, Pulsar).
  • Proficiency with relational databases (SQL) and NoSQL data stores.
  • Understanding of low-latency, high-throughput architectures and clean software design principles.
  • Experience building SPAs with TypeScript and modern frameworks (Angular, React, or similar).

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain high-performance, low-latency services for advertising.
  • Collaborate with product, platform, and operations teams to integrate new capabilities into the platform.
  • Optimize system performance, fix production issues, and eliminate bottlenecks across the stack.
  • Contribute to frontend integrations (SPAs, dashboards, tools) when needed, ensuring seamless workflows for internal and external users.
  • Partner with data engineering teams to design and integrate event tracking, analytics, and reporting pipelines.
  • Champion code quality, testing standard processes, and CI/CD automation.
  • Deliver mission-critical enhancements enabling fast, accurate, and scalable ad delivery.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on a next-generation advertising platform.
  • Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Focus on personal ownership and minimal direction enhancing self-starter capabilities.
  • Flexibility in approaches to enhance system architecture and performance.
  • Potential for career growth in an evolving ad tech space.
Full Job Description
Overview

How You'll Make an Impact

Epsilon is building the next generation Retail Media Network (RMN) platform to power onsite advertising at scale, leveraging services from our industry-leading platform that already serves billions of offsite ads across the open web. Our vision is a unified platform for both onsite and offsite ads, delivering low-latency, high-throughput performance across the board. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Platform Engineering team, someone with a self-starter mindset who thrives with minimal direction, can quickly grasp business and technical goals, and takes ownership from concept through delivery. This is a high-impact role where you'll shape the architecture, optimize performance, and ensure our systems are built for scale, reliability, and innovation. You'll be at the forefront of building a next-generation advertising platform that combines the speed and sophistication of programmatic ad serving with the personalization and commerce power of retail media. Your work will directly shape how millions of users experience advertising across top retailers and brands.

Responsibilities

What You'll Achieve
  • Design, implement, and maintain high-performance, low-latency services for advertising.
  • Collaborate with product, platform, and operations teams to integrate new capabilities into the platform.
  • Optimize system performance, fix production issues, and eliminate bottlenecks across the stack.
  • Contribute to frontend integrations (SPAs, dashboards, tools) when needed, ensuring seamless workflows for internal and external users.
  • Partner with data engineering teams to design and integrate event tracking, analytics, and reporting pipelines.
  • Champion code quality, testing standard processes, and CI/CD automation.
  • Deliver mission-critical enhancements enabling fast, accurate, and scalable ad delivery.
  • Build robust, future-proof services and interfaces that empower rapid feature development.
  • Improve system observability, monitoring, and fault tolerance.

Qualifications

What You'll Bring with you:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 6+ years of experience in backend and/or full stack software development.
  • Strong backend expertise in Java, with experience in high-performance, distributed systems.
  • Experience with streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, Pulsar).
  • Proficiency with relational databases (SQL) and NoSQL data stores.
  • Understanding of low-latency, high-throughput architectures and clean software design principles.
  • Experience building SPAs with TypeScript and modern frameworks (Angular, React, or similar).

Why you might stand out from other talent:
  • Master's degree or 10+ years software engineering experience.
  • Experience in ad tech, especially ad serving, RTB, or programmatic platforms.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker).
  • Experience with large-scale event tracking, data pipelines.

Click here to view how Epsilon transforms marketing with 1 View, 1 Vision, 1 Voice.

Base Salary: $88,900,00 - $165,100.00 annually.

Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon, but not limited to the individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location and application employment laws. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.

The application deadline for this job posting is 07/20/2026.

Additional Information

About Saatchi & Saatchi

Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in London in 1970 by brothers Maurice and Charles Saatchi and is now part of the Publicis Groupe, a French multinational advertising and public relations company. Saatchi & Saatchi has over 6,000 employees in 114 countries and provides a range of advertising and marketing services to clients in various industries, including automotive, consumer goods, financial services, and telecommunications. The company is known for its creative and innovative advertising campaigns, including the iconic 'Nothing is Impossible' campaign for Toyota. Saatchi & Saatchi has won numerous awards for its work, including Cannes Lions, Clios, and Effies.
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