Senior Software Engineer, Kargo
$180-200k
OTE
More information about location
4 days a week in office
Mobile advertisement platform
Open for applications
Mobile advertisement platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$180-200k
OTE
More information about location
4 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Kargo's mission is to empower advertisers to break convention and build connections with consumers on the most important screen today—the phone.
Role
Who you are
- B.S or higher in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or equivalent work experience
- 7+ years of professional software development experience in full-stack roles
- Strong portfolio (i.e. Github) demonstrating past work experience
- Expert knowledge of JavaScript and CSS
- Proficiency in writing clean code in vanilla JavaScript (without relying on external frameworks such as React)
- Strong knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle, including QA and deployment processes
- Experience with microservices architecture
- Proficiency in DevOps practices and tools like Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience reviewing other developers’ code and mentoring more junior developers
- Familiarity with the current technical capabilities and limitations of mobile devices and cross-platform development
- Ability to take a loosely defined idea from the brainstorming phase to production, including the architecture plan, development, and testing process
- A clean sense of design aesthetics and a natural propensity towards simplification over complication
- Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal, and analytical skills; the ability to communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively
- Experience with the Ad Tech industry: programmatic, creative/ad tags, Google Ad Manager, Prebid, etc
What the job involves
- Job Type: Full-time
- As a Senior Software Engineer II, you will be responsible for taking on a leading role on Kargo’s full-stack Ad Tech team
- You will work on solving complex technical challenges in a fast-paced environment, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions that drive value for advertisers, publishers, and users
- We are building sustainable, reusable, and scalable codebases in an agile environment and are true believers of doing it right the first time
- We want our engineers to be self-starters, eager learners, who will grow with our company
- You should be comfortable working alongside Engineering, Product, and Design teams to develop clean code
- You will brainstorm innovative solutions, mentor junior developers, and play a key role in shaping the technical direction of our projects
- Your experience working with multiple languages and frameworks helps you understand which is the right tool/language for whichever is the problem at hand
- You are a seasoned software engineer who writes clean and effective code
- You have a strong understanding of software design patterns and are able to clearly communicate guidelines and best practices that the whole team should follow
- You have experience working on both the front end and back end
- You have expert JavaScript and CSS skills and can solve tricky problems in creative and elegant ways
- You are expected to lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of full-stack applications
- You build and maintain scalable APIs, backend services, and frontend user interfaces
- You collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define and implement technical requirements
- You are expected to be able to work with other team members to fix and deploy any bugs or features that come your way
- You are expected to be the owner of multiple code bases, ensuring the architecture and code quality are upheld to our standards
- You optimize application performance for scalability, maintainability, and reliability
- You provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to junior team members
- You will identify and initiate investigations into new technologies, prototype and test solutions for product features, and design and validate production designs that deliver exceptional user experiences
- You thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
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 optimised impressions from the best-performing publishers within its specialised supply, using tangible identity metrics to analyse and improve advertiser KPIs, and overall, by facilitating personalised, mobile-optimised 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. 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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