Senior Staff Software Engineer, Moloco
Ads Creative
$270-318k
Machine learning-powered performance advertising solutions
Be an early applicant
Machine learning-powered performance advertising solutions
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$270-318k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses of all sizes to grow through operational machine learning.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including experience operating at Staff or Principal level scope
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Proven experience building and scaling display, video, or interactive/playable ad systems in a production advertising environment
- Hands-on experience designing creative processing systems, including ingestion (image, video, HTML), validation, transformation, rendering, selection, and performance optimization
- Deep understanding of digital ad creative delivery challenges, including low-latency serving, SDK constraints, rendering quality, asset-heavy pipelines, dynamic content generation, and ML-driven ranking
- Experience launching new ad formats end-to-end, coordinating across SDK, serving, ML, and product teams
- Strong experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems under strict reliability and latency requirements
- Demonstrated ability to lead multi-team technical initiatives, influence architectural direction, and mentor senior engineers
- Strong system design skills, from requirements gathering through architecture, implementation, and production ownership
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to align cross-functional stakeholders around complex technical decision
What the job involves
- Define and drive the long-term technical vision for Moloco’s end-to-end creative platform, powering creative rendering, selection, optimization, and delivery across the Moloco Ads ecosystem
- Own the architecture and evolution of the full creative lifecycle from ingestion, validation, and transformation to rendering, selection, serving, and publisher SDK integration while ensuring scalable, low-latency, and high-quality ad experiences globally
- Lead the design and launch of new ad formats (image, video, playable, and emerging interactive formats), coordinating across Creative, SDK, Serving, ML, and Advertiser Tooling teams to ensure seamless integration and measurable business impact
- Act as the technical authority connecting creative systems with auction dynamics, ranking models, and monetization strategy, driving platform extensibility while maintaining strict performance and reliability standards
- Provide cross-organizational technical leadership, mentoring senior engineers and aligning multiple teams around a cohesive creative platform roadmap
- Shape the future of Moloco Ads by building a highly extensible creative platform capable of supporting rapid innovation in ad formats and creative intelligence at global scale
- Drive measurable improvements in creative effectiveness through scalable experimentation frameworks, dynamic template rendering, ML-driven selection, and AI-powered creative transformation
- Improve creative serving performance (e.g. latency, reliability, rendering quality, and SDK compatibility) while supporting increasing traffic, asset complexity, and advertiser demand
- Establish architectural foundations that reduce time-to-market for new creative capabilities and unlock faster iteration across product, ML, and engineering teams
- Influence the technical direction of a revenue-critical system at the intersection of distributed systems, mobile SDKs, machine learning, and large-scale ad delivery
Our take
Moloco offers a cutting-edge platform that allows app developers and eCommerce marketplaces to fuel their growth through machine learning-driven advertising. Its suite of tools enables users to fine-tune campaigns, enhance user engagement, and broaden outreach, ultimately boosting profitability.
Positioned as the premier demand-side platform for ad performance across the open internet, Moloco has experienced substantial growth, securing significant funding and achieving Unicorn status in mid-2021. At the core of its Cloud DSP and Retail Media Platform lies a powerful ML engine leveraging deep neural networks (DNNs), facilitating automated, profitable, and scalable growth strategies for marketers.
Continuously evolving its flagship DSP with advanced features, Moloco consistently sets new benchmarks in ad spend. With expansion into retail media and MLaaS offerings, Moloco aims to democratize access to advanced machine learning capabilities for businesses of all sizes.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2021
$150m
SERIES C
Apr 2021
$20m
SERIES C
Total funding: $191.6m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health and wellness: Competitive health (100% coverage for you), dental, vision and life insurance for you and your family. In addition, enjoy membership to Calm, Headspace, Spring Health, as well as fitness and health reimbursements
- Professional development: $2,500 Learning and Development stipend annually to grow yourself professionally
- Food and snacks: Enjoy lunch on us. We bring lunch in for employees everyday, In addition, our kitchens are filled with healthy snacks and beverages for you to enjoy
- Paid parental leave: Our parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers have you covered when you welcome a new child into your family
- Unlimited vacation: We encourage team members to take time off to relax and recharge with our flexible paid time off policy. We also offer leave time for various reasons
- Financial benefits: We provide equity and generous retirement benefits that help you prepare for your future. In addition, home office setup and phone, internet and transportation reimbursements
Company HQ
Centennial, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Ikkjin Ahn
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer at O1 and Humanex, before spending 2 years at YouTube and 3 at Google.
David Sehyuk Park
(Co-Founder & CIO)Prior to co-founding Moloco in 2013, David spent nearly 7 years at Oracle Corporation as a Software Engineer.
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