Staff Software Engineer, Ads

🕒 October 2

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $165k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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GameChanger

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

⚽ Sports

☁️ SaaS

📱 Media

Sports • SaaS • Media

GameChanger is a sports technology company that provides a comprehensive app for live video streaming, scorekeeping, and team management for various sports including baseball, softball, basketball, football, volleyball, soccer, and lacrosse. The platform offers advanced scorekeeping features, in-app messaging, lineup sharing, and live streaming capabilities, making it a robust tool for coaches and fans alike. With its GameChanger Film Room and Streaming Kits, the company allows family and fans to never miss a moment of the action by following games in real-time from anywhere. GameChanger is a part of the DICK'S Sporting Goods family and partners with major sports organizations to enhance youth sports experiences. The app also features a content hub for company news and feature releases, and it promotes ease of use for coaches, players, and fans through its user-friendly interface and detailed insights.

📋 Description

• Define and drive technical strategy for the advertising platform • Establish architecture that evolves with the product and advertising business • Provide technical leadership for video ads, server-side advertising, connected TV, programmatic advertising, and new ad formats • Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to identify technical investments and revenue opportunities • Lead architecture and system design for complex cross-functional initiatives across advertising, video, backend services, clients, and data systems • Evaluate architectural approaches and third-party advertising technologies • Communicate tradeoffs involving scalability, reliability, user experience, implementation complexity, and business needs • Improve reliability, observability, scalability, and maintainability of advertising systems and integrations • Establish patterns and abstractions for safer advertising experimentation • Collaborate with video, client, platform, data, and monetization teams • Mentor engineers through design reviews, architectural guidance, code reviews, and knowledge sharing • Build technical documentation, architectural plans, and long-term roadmaps • Monitor advertising technology trends and assess their relevance • Participate in an occasional on-call rotation • Report to an Engineering leader in the Ads space

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience • Demonstrated 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 • Strong backend engineering foundation and experience supporting video advertising • Experience with ad serving, video ad delivery, SSAI/CSAI, VAST, programmatic advertising, or header bidding • Experience leading architecture and technical strategy across projects involving multiple engineers or teams • Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, reliability, observability, and system performance • Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical decisions beyond immediate projects and teams • Experience with live or streaming video systems is strongly preferred • Experience with connected TV advertising or server-side ad insertion is preferred • Experience with Google Ad Manager or similar ad-serving platforms is preferred • Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Redis, and PostgreSQL is preferred • Must be based in the United States and legally authorized to work in the United States • Must not require employment visa sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Work remotely throughout the US or from the modern office in Manhattan, NY • Unlimited vacation policy • Paid volunteer opportunities • Technology stipend of $4,000 every 2 years • WFH stipend of $500 annually • Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend through Holisticly • Monthly lifestyle stipend through Fringe • Full health benefits: medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and family/dependent coverage • Traditional and Roth 401K plans through Vanguard with immediate company match • Basic, supplemental, and dependent life insurance • Short-term and long-term disability leave • Company-paid parental leave: up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents • Family building benefits through Progyny • DICK'S Sporting Goods and family brands teammate discount • Incentive compensation and equity for eligible roles