Lead Software Engineer, Ads
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Jane TechnologiesCannabis eCommerce
RemoteFull-TimeLead
Salary190,000 - 222,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Required Skills
- SQLJavaGoTerraformCloudFormationDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 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.
- Demonstrates lead-level ownership: navigates ambiguity with the team and leadership.
- Experience with AdTech systems, ideally retail media, sponsored listings, or marketplace advertising.
- Hands-on with ad serving, real-time decisioning, campaign pacing, budgeting, attribution, or measurement.
- Systems-level problem solver comfortable navigating 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.).
- Database fluency with relational, columnar, and document-based databases.
- Strong technical communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Collaborative by nature with a passion for mentoring and sharing knowledge.
- Experience proposing, provisioning, and testing infrastructure with cloud ops such as Terraform or Cloudformation.
Responsibilities
- 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.
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