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# Senior Software Engineer, Ads (Remote)

- **Company:** Jane
- **Location:** Santa Cruz, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $135,000.0 - $165,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Adobe InDesign, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Data Analysis, Code Review, Databases, Data Structures, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Backend, Cloudformation, Terraform
- **Published:** June 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=dae09a1e42a01e32

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Software engineering?, * 4+ years of professional software engineering experience in a product-centered team.

 * Demonstrates senior-level ownership: independently navigates ambiguity and proactively moves work forward without waiting for direction.
 * Strong Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and code design principles.
 * Systems-level problem solver: comfortable navigating ambiguous, high-complexity challenges across distributed systems and infrastructure.
 * Experience with AdTech systems, ideally retail media, sponsored listings, or marketplace advertising. Hands-on with one or more of: ad serving and real-time decisioning, campaign pacing and budgeting, or attribution and measurement. You understand the constraints that make AdTech distinct: low-latency decisioning at scale, accurate pacing and billing, and closing the loop from impression to conversion.
 * Database fluency: familiar with relational, columnar, and document-based databases with a strong sense of their respective strengths and ideal use cases.
 * Proficiency in at least one system language (Go preferred, Java, etc.) with a demonstrated ability to pick up new languages and adapt to a rapidly evolving stack.
 * Strong technical communication: expresses ideas clearly through well-crafted code, written documentation, and verbal discussion with both technical and non-technical audiences
 * Collaborative by nature: as eager to mentor and share knowledge as to learn from others, with a genuine passion for craft and how great software gets built.
 * Experience in small, start-up engineering teams.
 * Experience proposing, provisioning and testing infrastructure with cloud ops: Terraform (preferred), Cloudformation, etc.

## Description

* Build scalable backend services and APIs that power our digital merchandising platform.
 * Work with other senior engineers to contribute to high level decisions about the architecture and design.
 * Work with Product Managers to make Jane's advertising product offerings sound, robust and easy to use.
 * Work with Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers to collect data, analyze data, and use data to improve advertising through iterations.
 * Help communicate and implement best practices across the engineering team.
 * Perform and participate in design reviews and code reviews.
 * Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.


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