REA-021 Sr. Software Engineer, Ads-Frontend

Toronto or San Francisco

Our client is the world's leading immersive "shoppertainment" platform with shoppable video, live streaming commerce, and monetization capabilities powering over 600 direct-to-consumer brands, retailers and media publishers worldwide. Our client enables its customers to create and host native, shoppable video content for engaging product discovery, seamless shopping experiences and ultimately, a deeper emotional connection with consumers. Pandemic- accelerated, our client has experienced 10x year-over-year growth, bringing TikTok-like interactive video experiences, all by adding just one line of HTML code to their own website. Their team more than doubled in the last 18 months to over 200 people strong in several countries including the US, Japan, India, Russia, Poland, Brazil, and Canada with backgrounds in technology, media, and entertainment. At the heart, they’re an inspirational and diverse team of creators, entrepreneurs, storytellers, and data geeks driven by the future of video transforming eCommerce. The company is backed by IDG Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and GSR Ventures, with over $80 million in capital raised to date.

We’re looking for a talented Sr. Front-End Software Engineer with Ads/IAB units experience to join a quickly expanding global elite team who will bring technical expertise and leadership.

What you'll be doing:

  • Work closely with product managers, designers, and the rest of the engineering team to create elegant, interactive, and scalable ads experience across multiple platforms
  • Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
  • Review code by your peers and help and provide insights from your experience of building and maintaining a repository of high-quality
  • Provide technical leadership and documentation to key technical and business stakeholders, proactively informing of important project details and phases of development

We'll be excited if you have:

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 5+ years of demonstrated experience working on creation of video, display, and native ads, executed by programmatic and direct basis
  • Proficiency in building responsive and scalable Web applications in React
  • Experience with AJAX, XML, JSON, and best practice design patterns
  • Familiarity with UX principles and site performance optimization
  • Good grasp of computer science fundamentals, such as data structures and algorithms
  • Working experience with automated testing and version control systems like Git
  • Have passion in digital advertising, open to learn and build ads domain knowledge
  • Comfortable with pair-programming and moving fast in a global startup environment
  • Great at communication and a team player

A BIG PLUS if you have:

  • Experience working on analytics tracking, reporting, and data/insight visualization
  • Experience working with ad systems or any buy-side (DSP) or sell-side (SSP) platforms, like Google Ads Manager (GAM), etc.
  • Experience integrating with ecommerce platforms such as Shopify and BigCommerce
  • In-depth knowledge on SEM and analytics
  • Familiarity with video streaming stack
  • Experience with Next.js
  • Experience with NodeJS
  • Experience with GraphQL
  • User Experience design methodologies