Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
A staff-level backend engineering role focused on building resilient cloud-native services and shaping technical strategy. The position requires strong programming skills and experience with scalable systems.
Highlights
Fully remote staff-level role with architecture ownership, large-scale engineering challenges, and opportunities to influence technical direction.
Description
This is a Fully Remote Job
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About Our Client:
The organization operates within the digital audio entertainment and advertising industry, addressing the challenge of delivering integrated, scalable audio content and advertising solutions across multiple platforms.
It manages a large digital audio advertising ecosystem, combining owned and operated platforms and partnerships to reach over 150 million listeners monthly, enabling marketers to produce, plan, buy, and measure audio advertising effectively.
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About the Opportunity:
The Staff Software Engineer, Python role on the Planning team within the Ad Sales Product Engineering group focuses on defining and driving the technical direction for ad buying systems.
The position is responsible for architecting resilient, cloud-native backend services that support large-scale ad delivery and campaign planning, leading engineering modernization and scalability initiatives, and influencing long-term architecture and technology strategies to advance the organization''s ad technology platforms.
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Responsibilities:
Lead design and development of scalable, maintainable ad buying services.Architect and evolve the Slingshot platform toward modern cloud-native solutions.Manage end-to-end execution from design to performance optimization.Collaborate with Product, Data Engineering, DevOps, and SRE teams to deliver integrated ad buying capabilities.Partner with data, UI, billing, and ad trafficking teams to enhance ad buying workflows through automation.Promote observability, reliability, and operational excellence using tools like Datadog and Grafana.Mentor engineers and foster a culture of technical rigor and continuous improvement.Influence long-term architecture aligned with the ad tech roadmap.
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Requirements:
7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in senior technical leadership.Expertise in Python and backend frameworks such as Django or FastAPI.Strong background in distributed systems and data pipelines, with experience in Kafka, Celery, or Airflow.Experience with ad serving or delivery platforms.Proficiency with AWS, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation.Familiarity with observability tools and CI/CD workflows.Proven success leading cross-team initiatives and mentoring engineers.Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.Legal right to work in the U.S.
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Pay Range and Compensation Package:
The base salary for this position is expected to range from $106,600 to $200,000, dependent on skills, qualifications, and experience.The role may be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives.
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Equal Opportunity Statement: Our client is an equal opportunity employer.
They celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or national origin.
Note:
TalentHop is a recruitment partner of this role.
Please note that all employment decisions, including candidate assessment, interviews, hiring, compensation, and employment terms, are made exclusively by the hiring employer.
