Senior Software Engineer, Kargo

$150-170k

OTE

AWS

Kubernetes

Java

C++

Senior and Expert level

New York

3+ days a week in office

Mobile advertisement platform

Job no longer available

Mobile advertisement platform

1001+ employees

B2BMarketingSaaSMobileAdvertising

Job no longer available

$150-170k

OTE

AWS

Kubernetes

Java

C++

Senior and Expert level

New York

3+ days a week in office

1001+ employees

B2BMarketingSaaSMobileAdvertising

Company mission

To empower advertisers to break convention and build connections with consumers on the most important screen today—the phone.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You should have a strong background in AdTech with experience working within an SSP or Demand Side Platform (DSP), and have worked to solve similar problems that are prevalent in an auction platform
You are a product engineer who uses coding as a tool to achieve a desired outcome
You have a track record of leading projects successfully and consistently delivering milestones within a projected due date
You have experience brainstorming loosely defined ideas with Product Managers and developing e2e solutions with documentation inclusive of architecture, implementation, testing, and deployment plan
You are a seasoned software engineer who writes clean and effective code to improve existing software iteratively
You have a strong understanding of software architecture and take an opinionated but pragmatic approach to system design
You are analytical and employ a data-driven approach to communicate your hypothesis with your audiences
You are team-oriented and an excellent communicator who can present complex concepts succinctly
You have experience uplifting junior engineers through pair programming, code reviews, and mentorship
You have a B.S or higher in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics (or equivalent work experience)
You have 5+ years of experience working in AdTech or a related field with similar constraints in low-latency, high-performance distributed systems
You have experience developing production-grade applications in Go or an equivalent statically typed coding language like Java or C++
You have experience working in a Dockerized Kubernetes environment on AWS or equivalent Cloud infrastructure

What the job involves

As a Sr. Software Engineer I, you will be in a leading role within Kargo’s large-scale distributed Supply Side Platform (SSP) to: 1) Maximize revenue for publishers, and 2) Enhance brand value for marketers
You will be responsible for developing technical solutions using cutting-edge technology like Golang, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Tensorflow, and Snowflake, to solve AdTech problems like: Traffic Shaping, QPS management, Margin management, Ad monetization (pacing & auction mechanics), and experimentation (A/B, bandit)
You will be working with a distributed team across 3 time zones, and play an integral role in elevating the team’s technical ability, AdTech knowledge, and bringing the Kargo SSP to enterprise-grade software
Actively participate in the team’s Agile ceremonies to achieve sprint goals that ladder up to quarterly commitments and team-level OKRs
Be an active voice to set and influence coding standards and team processes
Be an advisor to the Product Manager to develop and architect solutions, and execute the implementation with the team
Take ownership of researching new technologies, prototypes, and developing tools to improve developer experience and accessibility in the SSP
Be an expert in various features of the platform to troubleshoot escalations relating to ad operations
Actively participate in the team’s on-call rotation to ensure that the SSP maintains its Service Level Objectives (SLOs)

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.