Senior Solutions Engineer, Kargo
In-App
$200-220k
Eligible for variable compensation
Mobile advertisement platform
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Mobile advertisement platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$200-220k
Eligible for variable compensation
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower advertisers to break convention and build connections with consumers on the most important screen today—the phone.
Role
Who you are
- Expert-level proficiency in a production language such as Python, Java, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript, with a strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns
- Experience building RESTful APIs and microservices, and designing scalable, distributed systems that handle high-volume traffic
- Understanding of database design and optimization across SQL and NoSQL, plus cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Proficiency with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and monitoring/observability tooling, with the ability to debug production issues and optimize system performance
- Strong ownership and technical judgment—you see projects through, make pragmatic engineering decisions, and address technical debt strategically
- Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders and share knowledge generously
- Resilience and a bias for action, staying effective under pressure and breaking large problems into incremental, shippable deliverables
What the job involves
- Kargo is looking for a Senior Solutions Engineer to own the technical success of publishers integrating and scaling our in-app SDK
- You'll be the technical face of Kargo to app developers and publishers—the person who gets the SDK integrated cleanly, keeps impressions growing, and clears every engineering roadblock between a signed partner and live, revenue-generating ad traffic
- This is a hands-on, publisher-facing role at the intersection of engineering, product, and revenue
- Onboard and take live strategic publishers, moving each from signed to first impression to full-scale rollout ahead of target integration timelines
- Own flagship publisher integrations end to end, from technical scoping through production launch and post-launch monetization tuning
- Diagnose and resolve the top roadblocks capping in-app impression growth—mediation/bidding misconfiguration, low fill, latency, rendering failures—to drive measurable lifts in live impressions and fill
- Architect placement, format, and bidding strategies that raise eCPM/ARPDAU and sustain performance as publisher traffic scales without degradation
- Establish integration patterns, sample apps, and QA checklists that become team standards and raise the bar for how cleanly publishers go live
- Partner with Sales, Account Management, Product, and Engineering to translate publisher needs into technical solutions
- Feed integration friction back into the SDK roadmap so recurring problems get solved at the source
Our take
The way in which advertisers reach out to their audiences has changed dramatically over the last decade, primarily due to the invention of the smartphone. Whilst mobile ads have existed since the beginning of smartphones, most rely on technology that was built for desktops, resulting in bad advertising and missed opportunities.
Kargo provides a mobile advertising platform for marketers and publishers, helping them to deliver better business outcomes by leveraging advertising technology designed specifically for mobile. The company achieves this by directly integrating optimized impressions from the best-performing publishers within its specialized supply, using tangible identity metrics to analyze and improve advertiser KPIs, and overall, by facilitating personalized, mobile-optimized advertising.
The company acquired Videobyte (a video advertising platform for Connected TV) in early 2023 to expand operations into the relatively young digital TV industry and its lucrative TV formats. Bringing video, publisher tools, and unique formats to Kargo's omnichannel, this acquisition indicates a diversification of media for the advertising provider, which already has a firm grip on both mobile and desktop advertising platforms. On top of that, 2025 funding is being used for R&D of new AI-powered products and to broaden market reach.
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Insights
20% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Karry Kargman
(Founder & CEO)Experience as Corporate Business Developer for Intel Venture and Corporate Strategist for Intertainer.
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