AdTech Engineering Team Lead (AdTech)

Location: Remote, must be based in Canada and legally authorized to work in Canada; significant overlap with US business hours required.

Base compensation: $126,500 CAD annually, commensurate with experience; up to 10% annual performance bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a distributed technology firm providing staff augmentation and scalable technology solutions for commercial, industrial, and consumer products.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, hire, develop, and retain a team of 3–5 AdTech engineers.
• Plan and prioritize work with client engineering and product leaders, owning sprint and roadmap delihirify.global.
• Guide the design and implementation of real-time bidding infrastructure, including bid lifecycles, auction logic, win notifications, ad server integrations, creative rendering, and VAST compliance.
• Set the architecture for scalable AWS systems and oversee bid-stream, event-processing, reporting, attribution, and frequency-capping pipelines.
• Own code and design reviews, deployment practices, CI/CD, observability, production support, and incident response.
• Collaborate with client stakeholders and hirify.global leadership while reporting on team health, delihirify.global, risks, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• BS or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience and 2+ years directly managing engineers.
• Hands-on experience building programmatic advertising systems for ad networks, SSPs, DSPs, ad exchanges, AdTech startups, or publisher-side engineering.
• Experience working in high-throughput, low-latency production environments and designing and operating AWS systems at scale.
• Hands-on experience building production front-end applications with React and TypeScript.
• Full software development lifecycle experience covering requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Strong knowledge of OpenRTB and IAB technical standards, including ads.txt, sellers.json, VAST, and VPAID.
• Experience with real-time bidding lifecycles, auction mechanics, ad server integrations, data pipelines, and debugging distributed production systems at scale.
• Must be based in Canada, professionally fluent in English, and able to work with significant overlap with US business hours.
• Must be legally authorized to work in Canada.

Nice to have

• Spring Serve ad server integration experience.
• Header bidding experience with Prebid or server-side implementations.
• Experience with SSP or DSP platform internals.
• CTV/OTT ad delihirify.global experience.
• Experience with privacy and consent frameworks, including TCF, GPP, and CCPA signal handling.
• Infrastructure as code experience with AWS CDK or Terraform.
• Experience leading teams embedded with clients or distributed across locations through staff augmentation or consulting.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully distributed work environment with collaboration across remote and in-person settings.
• Group RRSP match with employer contributions of 4% of annual income.
• Extended healthcare, dental, and vision insurance.
• $150 USD monthly cell/internet stipend and $600 USD annual home office equipment stipend.
• Professional development stipend and loaned MacBook Pro.
• Annual team retreat and a culture focused on client outcomes, quality, ownership, and problem-solving.

Hiring process

• Interviewing requires a meaningful time commitment from all parties.
• No agencies.