Jane Technologies - Lead Software Engineer, Ads
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, 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
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. You don't wait to be asked.
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