Senior Software Engineer, Creative Serving Team

Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.

Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.

The Creative Serving team maintains and operates mission critical systems involved in every ad serving across Liftoff’s product line. Our systems are foundational and fundamental for Liftoff to function and thrive. As a senior staff engineer, you will build and maintain deep, strategic integration with our partner exchanges, assure impeccable uptime and drive cost effective content delivery world-wide. This includes close collaboration with our internal Vungle Exchange and SDK to help enable Liftoff Exclusive advertising capabilities.

As a software engineer, you will also be a critical part of maintaining our ad serving infrastructure, working closely with peers and senior engineers. Your specific responsibilities will include:

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to Ad Serving Architecture: Develop and maintain code that supports our ad serving architecture, ensuring reliability and performance. Participate in the on-call rotation to help troubleshoot and tackle issues as they arise.
• Implement Cross-Functional Requirements: Work closely with other teams to understand their needs and translate those requirements into effective code solutions that integrate seamlessly with existing systems.
• Participate in Code Reviews and Discussions: Actively engage in code reviews, contributing your insights and suggestions to improve the quality of the codebase. Take part in architectural discussions and provide valuable input into technical decisions.
• Support Coding Standards and Best Practices: Collaborate with your team to uphold and refine coding standards, development processes, and best practices, ensuring consistency and quality in the work produced.
• Collaborate with Peers: Work alongside fellow engineers, sharing knowledge and supporting each other’s growth. Contribute to a positive, collaborative work environment.
• Engage in Roadmap Planning: Participate in brainstorming and planning sessions for the product roadmap, providing feedback and suggestions that help shape the technical direction of the team.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years of industry experience
• Experience with Golang required, JavaScript, TypeScript and Clojure would be a bonus.
• Basic knowledge of various ad formats (e.g., display, video, native) and technologies like VAST, VPAID, and MRAID is a big plus.
• Prior experience with mission critical systems.
• Some knowledge of the ad tech ecosystem, real time bidding (RTB) protocol.
• Good communicator, empathetic and focused listener.

Preferred location for this position is Pacific timezone.

Location:

This role is eligible to work out of any of our below North America office locations or is eligible for full-time remote work in one of our entities.

US office locations: Redwood City (HQ), Los Angeles, New York City

Additionally, Liftoff recently announced approved North American locations from which some employees may request to work from any city and county: California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Washington in the US, and Canada.

Compensation:

Liftoff offers all employees a full compensation package that includes equity and health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence. Base compensation will vary based on candidate location and experience. The following are our base salary ranges for this role:

SF Bay Area, NYC, Los Angeles/Orange County: $170,000 - $190,000

Seattle/Olympia, Austin, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Boston: $156,400 - $174,800

All other cities and towns in our approved states: $145,600 - $163,400

*Working at Liftoff is fast-paced, fun, and challenging, and we thrive on innovation. Come join the rocket ship and help shape the future of the mobile app ecosystem with us! *

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Liftoff is committed to providing and maintaining a work environment where all employees and candidates are treated with dignity and respect and that is free of bias, prejudice, and harassment. Liftoff is further committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all employees and candidates for employment free from discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex, gender (including sexual harassment, gender harassment, and harassment due to pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender nonconformity, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, ancestry (including association, affiliation, or participation with persons or activities related to national origin, English-proficiency or accent, or immigration status), physical or mental disability, medical condition(s), genetic information of an individual or family member of the individual, marital or domestic partner status, age, veteran or military status, family care status, requesting or taking pregnancy, parental or disability leave, requesting an accommodation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance. All such discrimination and harassment is unlawful and will not be tolerated. Liftoff maintains a continued commitment to equal employment opportunity and expects the full cooperation of all personnel.

Liftoff's Compensation Strategy

Liftoff's compensation strategy includes competitive market rate along with equity and benefits and perks that will give our employees what they need to do their best work. In order to ensure teams are compensated fairly for the work performed, we map out specific levels and take into consideration the cost of labor within each location. Liftoff provides employees a total compensation package of competitive market salaries, equity, health and wellness stipends, medical benefits associated with your country of residence. The base compensation will vary based on location, experience as well as level.

Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:

Liftoff does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team. All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Liftoff vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Liftoff Recruiting Team and such a candidate was submitted to the Liftoff Recruiting Team via our Applicant Tracking System.