Senior Software Engineer, Basis

Core Backend & Platform Engineering

$119.1-160k

+ may include bonus

React

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

JavaScript

Python

Java

Kafka

Redis

Sidekiq

Postgres

Ruby

Terraform

RabbitMQ

RDS

Rails

Datadog

Senior and Expert level

Toronto

Remote from Canada, US

Advertising automation platform for omnichannel media

Be an early applicant

Advertising automation platform for omnichannel media

1001+ employees

B2BDigital MediaAdvertising

Be an early applicant

$119.1-160k

+ may include bonus

React

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

JavaScript

Python

Java

Kafka

Redis

Sidekiq

Postgres

Ruby

Terraform

RabbitMQ

RDS

Rails

Datadog

Senior and Expert level

Toronto

Remote from Canada, US

1001+ employees

B2BDigital MediaAdvertising

Company mission

To develop software and services that support the increasingly complex digital media landscape - and to improve the lives of the people working inside it.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years of professional software engineering experience
Experience developing large-scale cloud-native systems — reliability, scalability, and the observability that keeps them healthy
Depth in modern software delivery: CI/CD, trunk-based development, layered automated testing, and release practices like feature flagging, canary deployments, and progressive delivery
Experience contributing to org-wide standards — testing strategy, environment management, performance and SLOs
Fluency with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.) as a core part of your development workflow — for code generation, debugging, exploring unfamiliar codebases, and documentation — paired with strong judgment for evaluating, refining, and taking full ownership of AI-generated output
A thoughtful, collaborative approach to design and decision-making, and a commitment to inclusive environments where all voices are valued

What the job involves

Technology is at the core of what we do. Basis is an industry-leading platform that automates and simplifies the entire digital ad campaign process. It processes over 300 billion events per day and uses AI and machine learning across the full campaign lifecycle
The Core Backend team is the connective tissue that keeps Basis running and lets other engineering teams move faster. We own the health of our core backend, the core customer-facing features developed within it, and the systems and standards that feature teams build on top of — along with the strategy for how the application evolves over time
That includes performance and reliability, observability foundations, release tooling, and the strategy for decomposing the system into well-defined microservices
If you're energized by platform-level problems, by setting the standards other teams build on, and by work whose outcome is other teams shipping faster, this is the team for you
Contribute to the platform's performance, observability, and reliability standards, and help drive adoption across feature teams
Reshaping how we build and ship: CI/CD, trunk-based development, and developing a layered testing strategy (unit, integration, contract, end-to-end) so teams can test in isolation and deploy independently
Collaborate closely with the Enterprise Developer Experience team to build shared tooling
Improve the developer and pre-production experience for the core backend — pipeline design, environment stability, and a fast development feedback loop
Lead platform projects across the stack — release tooling, platform reliability, and the patterns that guide how we decompose the core backend into services
Take ownership of deliverables, quality, and on-call support across our systems and components, and drive projects from ideation through production
Actively partner with the feature teams who depend on the systems you own — through pull requests, demos, design discussions, and identifying risks and blockers early
Our Tech Stack:
Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, React, Java, Python
PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Sidekiq
AWS, EC2, RDS, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes
Datadog, Airbrake

Application process

Don’t have every skill listed? No problem! We know experience can be built in many ways. If you have relevant skills that aren't reflected in your resume, we encourage you to share them in an optional cover letter

Our take

The landscape of advertisement has changed dramatically over the years, with campaigners now needing to deliver video advertisements quickly and efficiently across a vast range of digital platforms. This is easier said than done, however, with the range of existing advertisement management platforms being slow, segmented, and antiquated.

Basis provides a digital marketing platform that allows users to manage advertisement campaigns across a variety of digital platforms. The demand-side platform provides a variety of automated tools that facilitate publishing quick and large-scale changes to campaigns, in addition to providing analytical insights and other innovative assistance tools.

Whilst other DSPs are providing digital marketing tools for advertisement management, Basis stands out by providing an all-in-one, fully unified platform. By covering all the bases, the company claims to be the first single sign-on media automation platform that can deliver to the variety of channels and vendors required in modernized advertising.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

5% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.3)

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

May 2015

$30m

SERIES B

Dec 2010

$22.5m

SERIES A

Total funding: $52.5m

Company HQ

Chicago Loop, Chicago, IL

Leadership

Shawn Riegsecker

(Founder & CEO)

Co-Founder and Co-Chairman at Unite America, and Board Member of the Metropolitan Planning Council. Started their career as Director of Akron Beacon Journal, before VP roles at cleveland.com and Everstream Solutions.

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