Staff Software Engineer (Advertising Platform)

Location: Remote throughout the United States or from the office in Manhattan, New York. Hiring is unavailable in Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, and South Carolina.

Salary: $165,000–$185,000 per year, plus potential equity, bonus, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global builds products for youth sports communities, helping families experience and manage live sports moments.

What you will do

• Define the technical strategy and architecture for the advertising platform.
• Lead the design of advertising capabilities including video ads, server-side advertising, connected TV experiences, programmatic advertising, and new ad formats.
• Drive cross-functional architecture and system design across advertising, video, backend, client, data, and monetization systems.
• Evaluate third-party advertising technologies and communicate tradeoffs involving scalability, reliability, user experience, complexity, and business needs.
• Improve reliability, observability, scalability, and maintainability while establishing reusable engineering patterns.
• Mentor engineers, guide design and code reviews, maintain technical roadmaps, and participate in an occasional on-call rotation.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience with technical leadership on complex or large-scale systems.
• Experience designing and evolving distributed, high-scale production systems.
• Professional experience architecting and delivering advertising technology systems or integrations, with strong backend engineering experience and exposure to video advertising.
• Experience with ad serving, video ad delivery, SSAI/CSAI, VAST, programmatic advertising, or header bidding.
• Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, reliability, observability, and system performance.
• Experience leading architecture and technical strategy, mentoring engineers, and influencing decisions across teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with live or streaming video systems.
• Experience with connected TV advertising or server-side ad insertion.
• Experience with Google Ad Manager or similar ad-serving platforms.
• Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Redis, and PostgreSQL.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work environment with the option to work from the Manhattan office.
• Unlimited vacation and paid volunteer opportunities.
• Technology, work-from-home, wellness, learning, and lifestyle stipends.
• Medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, life, and disability benefits.
• 401(k) plans with an immediate company match and paid parental leave.
• Family-building benefits and teammate discounts through DICK'S Sporting Goods and its family of brands.

Hiring process

• Interviews and assessments are conducted without AI tools unless their use is explicitly permitted.