Senior Backend Engineer, VideoAmp
API
$130-170k
+ Equity
Advertising measurement and optimization
Open for applications
Advertising measurement and optimization
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$130-170k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To reinvent how media is bought, sold, and valued, shaping a more efficient advertising ecosystem.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for someone who is a self-starter, detail-minded, collaborative, and thrives in a high-ownership environment
- 7+ years of experience in backend or web application development
- Strong programming skills with Go, and experience with Python or JavaScript a plus
- Deep experience building scalable, secure, and reliable production APIs
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and Snowflake
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Ability to distill technical requirements, build consensus, and drive work from design → implementation → monitoring
- A self-starter who is detail-oriented, results-driven, and prefers collaboration over top-down leadership styles
- Experience in Ad Tech, particularly in planning, audience measurement, or viewership data greatly preferred
What the job involves
- As a Backend Engineer on our API Engineering team, you will build and scale the APIs that power the VideoAmp platform - the core services that enable clients to plan media, activate campaigns, and measure deduplicated audiences across linear and digital environments
- You’ll focus on production-caliber API engineering: building highly performant, secure, and reliable services, backed by modern orchestration, observability, and data systems
- Your work directly impacts how major brands and publishers value, transact, and measure advertising, and you’ll collaborate closely with teams across Data Science, Measurement, Product, and Engineering Services
- Comfortable and competent in Agentic AI development tools such as Claude Code, CoPilot
- Design, test, build, and scale production-grade APIs using Go (with occasional Python/JavaScript)
- Improve and maintain core API services that power large-scale planning and measurement workflows
- Implement and optimize process orchestration using Temporal and Airflow
- Ensure API resiliency, observability, and performance through rigorous monitoring, tracing, and alerting
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to translate product requirements into architectural designs and execution plans
- Contribute to team-wide best practices across API design, security, testing, and service reliability
- Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and collaborative planning sessions
- Support continuous improvement through thoughtful documentation, automation, and consensus-driven decision making
- Technologies We Use: Go (primary), Python & JavaScript, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Airflow, Temporal, Bazel, AWS, Kubernetes
Our take
For companies looking for a more advanced and streamlined advertising ecosystem, VideoAmp provides tools to measure, transact with and unify audiences that were previously hard to interact with across the disparate traditional systems of TV, streaming and digital media.
In today's world where digital users are keenly aware of their data being used, sold and analyzed, VideoAmp has shrewdly put user privacy at its forefront. Its suite of data and software solutions allows a view of the audience which powers a more effective value exchange for the whole industry. Audiences no longer have to see irrelevant advertising and companies can bring users the content they want to see without compromising privacy.
The company has raised significant funding, further accelerating its leadership position in optimization solutions for the convergent TV ecosystem. This capital has also allowed VideoAmp to acquire Elsy, a media investment optimization platform. Alongside partnerships with media giants Omnicom Media and NBCUniversal, this is testament to VideoAmp’s growing momentum.
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Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2023
$150m
SERIES G
Oct 2021
$275m
SERIES F
Total funding: $531.6m
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off each year
- Company sponsored health, dental and vision benefits for you and your dependents
- Annual vacation and childcare stipends
- Access to state-of-the-art fitness classes and personal trainers to promote your well-being
- Partnership with DoorDash for meal deliveries
- Employee Advisory Groups / Proactive Social Groups
- Pet Funds + Pet Care Savings
- 401k Plan
- Referral Bonus
- Progressive approach to paid parental leave
- Epic personal and professional growth opportunities
Company HQ
Sawtelle, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Ross McCray
(Board Member and Founder)They studied at the University of California, Los Angeles, before dropping out to co-found VideoAmp in June 2014.
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