AdTech Engineer (Programmatic Advertising)

Location: Remote, must be based in Colombia; significant overlap with US business hours required, Monday-Friday 9-5 ET.

Hourly rate: $50 USD/hour. The contract may approximate a full-time workload of 40 hours per week.

Company

hirify.global is a distributed technology firm providing embedded engineering and staff augmentation services for commercial, industrial, and consumer products.

What you will do

• Build and maintain real-time bidding infrastructure, including bid lifecycle handling, auction logic, and win notifications.
• Integrate ad server platforms and support tag management, creative rendering, VAST compliance, and header bidding.
• Design and operate elastic AWS infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency auction traffic.
• Build data pipelines for bid streams, event logging, reporting, attribution, and frequency capping.
• Own deployments, CI/CD, observability, production diagnostics, and participation in the 24/7 on-call rotation.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, business, and client stakeholders to deliver reliable, measurable outcomes.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience and a BS or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience building programmatic advertising systems and operating high-throughput, low-latency production environments.
• Experience designing and operating AWS systems at scale, including EC2, ECS/EKS, auto-scaling, CloudFront, DynamoDB, Redis, S3, Athena, or Redshift.
• Strong knowledge of OpenRTB, IAB standards, ads.txt, sellers.json, VAST/VPAID, bid mechanics, and ad server integrations.
• Experience with Kafka or Kinesis, AWS CDK or Terraform, distributed production systems, and the full software development lifecycle.
• Must be based in Colombia, have professional English fluency, and work with significant overlap with US business hours.

Nice to have

• Spring Serve integration experience, header bidding with Prebid, or SSP/DSP platform internals.
• CTV/OTT ad delihirify.global experience and knowledge of TCF, GPP, or CCPA signal handling.
• Experience working in embedded client, staff augmentation, consulting, or distributed teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work from Colombia within core client business hours.
• Long-term contract engagement with a substantial workload that may approximate full-time hours.
• Collaborative work embedded within a client engineering team while remaining part of hirify.global.
• Own computer or device and reliable internet connection required.
• High standards for ownership, communication, code quality, reliability, and problem-solving.