Software Engineer - Ad Engineering (AdTech)

Location: New York City, NY; hybrid attendance in the office three times a week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday is required.

Salary: $160,000–$190,000 per year, plus equity eligibility, annual cash bonus plans, unlimited PTO, and medical benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a consumer-first live TV streaming company focused on sports, news, and entertainment services.

What you will do

• Build and support backend infrastructure and services powering the advertising platform.
• Improve service reliability, performance, accuracy, security, and observability.
• Solve distributed-systems and data-engineering problems involving ad-decisioning systems, video player vendors, ad routers, and server-side ad insertion partners.
• Develop shared libraries, tools, and frameworks for engineering and advertising operations teams.
• Extract and aggregate data from multiple sources into data warehouses.
• Write unit and integration tests and use AI tools across coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.

Requirements

• Strong computer science foundation and software engineering and communication skills.
• 3+ years of experience delivering production-quality software.
• Experience building microservices in Golang, Java, C++, or a similar language.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, relational and non-relational databases, and log and metric aggregation tools.
• Experience ingesting large datasets and working with external stakeholders.
• Must be located in New York City and able to work from the office three days per week.

Nice to have

• Experience building infrastructure platforms and tools for distributed systems.
• Experience with LLM APIs, agentic workflows, AI-powered internal tools, or MCP integrations.
• Online advertising or ad-tech experience, including VAST, VMAP, SSAI, FreeWheel, Publica, or Google Ad Manager.
• Experience deploying cloud-agnostic code across platforms such as GCP or AWS.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to influence the future of live media and streaming.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and commuter benefits.
• Free Premium hirify.global account.
• Unlimited PTO and regular company-wide activities.
• hirify.global is an E-Verify company, with headquarters in Midtown Manhattan and offices in Paris and Bangalore.