Senior Software Developer, Topsort
Infrastructure & tools for monetization
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Infrastructure & tools for monetization
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To democratize modern advertising technologies.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in backend engineering, designing, developing, and maintaining scalable services
- Strong experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems, ensuring efficiency and reliability
- Proven track record of implementing engineering best practices, improving development efficiency and maintaining high code quality
- Proficiency in Python and TypeScript, with a solid understanding of best practices, patterns, and performance optimization
- Expertise in high-performance, low-latency systems, designing solutions that scale efficiently
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems, decoupling patterns, and modern software architecture to build robust and maintainable services
- Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills, working closely with product and engineering teams to develop new features and optimize existing ones
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer at Topsort you will build back-end services, APIs, and front-end experiences to support our mission: democratizing auction-based infrastructure for all marketplaces
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance applications while ensuring code quality and best practices
- Provide mentorship, conduct code reviews, and drive best engineering practices to improve team efficiency
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks, optimize system performance, and ensure reliability in distributed architectures
- Work with cross-functional teams, translate business needs into technical solutions, and drive innovation through new technologies and best practices
- Our first product is sponsored listings as a service. We automate and simplify auctions so that any advertiser, especially small ones, can compete successfully. It’s not easy
- We use our game and auction theory expertise; implement real-time, scalable, always-available systems; and build an intuitive, easy-to-use UI for managing campaigns
Our take
With the likes of Meta, Amazon, and Google hosting the majority of ad campaigns, contemporary strategies can become overcomplicated and lacking in owner control. Topsort has created a simple and customisable API through which users can create advertising elements like sponsored listings, banner and video ads, and control how they’re shown to potential customers.
Where the platform stands out is in its transparency and privacy-first approach - delivering a direct replacement of the “cookie” system usually used in sponsored ads. Topsort’s “clean room” is an encrypted technology that has zero-visibility into privacy data, ensuring anonymity for those being analysed.
This exciting new approach to media marketing analysis and campaign planning has turned investors' heads, at a time when data privacy is a hot topic. Topsort has enjoyed an impressive Series A of $20 million, which will be used to scale and accelerate its growth.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2024
$20m
SERIES A
Mar 2022
$8m
SEED
Total funding: $28m
Company benefits
- Remote-working options with coworking memberships and (at least) once a year in person offsite gathering
- You’ll be welcomed by coworkers in 11 countries that all bring a unique perspective to the company from day 1
- Management training program, career talks and mentorships
- Candid feedback - we push each other to set higher goals and produce more impact by always thinking “how do we do this faster and better”
- Employee Stock Option Plan
- 401k, dental, medical and vision insurance
Company values
- Our team is all about straightforward communication, embracing feedback without taking it personally, and fostering a super collaborative environment
- We thrive on working together, lifting each other up, and getting things done with a sense of urgency
- We're the kind of team that loves making bold choices, sharing extraordinary opinions, and maintaining a 100mph pace
- No endless meetings here – if it can be done today, we're all about getting it done today
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Regina Ye
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Product Lead at Hopin, and Founder at ZIRUI Inc.
Michael Ostrovsky
(Co-Founder)Currently Professor of economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Previously an Advisor at Pinterest and Linkedin, and was a Visiting Scientist at Google.
Francisco Larrain
(Co-Founder & CTO)Currently Board Member at Maxxa. Previously worked in Local Engineering at Groupon, and was Founder and CEO of Zappedy.
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