Senior Backend Engineer - Advertising

About Us

Adora is a cutting-edge, Seattle-based SaaS company at the forefront of revolutionizing the trillion-dollar digital advertising industry. We're leveraging advanced technologies, including generative AI and big data analytics, to develop an innovative platform that empowers marketers to launch more effective, privacy-conscious advertising campaigns with unprecedented speed and precision.

The Role

As a Senior Backend Engineer specializing in ad performance, you will play a crucial role in developing and maintaining the core systems that power our platform's ad optimization models. You will work closely with our data science and frontend teams to create robust, scalable solutions that provide accurate, real-time insights to our clients and power our ML models.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable backend systems for ad attribution, experimentation, and optimization across multiple platforms
• Implement and optimize data processing pipelines to handle large volumes of advertising data
• Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and reliability across our systems
• Develop APIs to integrate external data vendors with our internal data systems
• Contribute to the architecture and technical direction of our attribution and experimentation systems
• Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices in software development
• Continuously improve system performance, scalability, and reliability

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in backend software engineering
• Proven experience working on ad systems at an advertising platform or ad-tech company
• Strong proficiency in one or more BE programming languages (we currently use Python)
• Experience with big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark) and distributed systems
• Familiarity with AWS
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture
• Experience with real-time data processing and analytics
• Solid grasp of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles
• Low ego, high empathy, and excellent collaboration skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous, high-growth environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with machine learning and its applications in ads
• Familiarity with advertising platforms' data and APIs (Meta, Google Ads, Amazon, etc.)
• Knowledge of privacy regulations related to digital advertising (e.g., GDPR, CCPA)

Location

Hybrid work environment with minimum 4 days in office in downtown Seattle, WA (remote considered for exceptional candidates)

What We Offer

• Competitive salary, stock, and benefits package.
• Opportunity to shape the data strategy of a growing startup from the ground up
• A collaborative, inclusive, and dynamic work environment in a high-growth start-up.
• Work with a set of industry veterans that have 15+ years experience from early start-ups to the biggest tech companies.
• Bring your dog to work. 🐶
• We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company.

How to Apply

Apply here: https://adora.fillout.com/t/fGZ2VYaxMdus