Lead Software Engineer, Ads (Remote)
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Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience in a product-centered team.
- 2+ years in a lead or people-management role, with a track record of shipping meaningful work through a team, not just as an individual contributor,
- Demonstrates lead-level ownership: navigates ambiguity with the team and leadership. Proactively moves work forward against business goals.
- Experience with AdTech systems, ideally retail media, sponsored listings, or marketplace advertising. Hands-on with one or more of: ad serving and real-time decisioning, campaign pacing and budgeting, or attribution and measurement. You understand the constraints that make AdTech distinct: low-latency decisioning at scale, accurate pacing and billing, and closing the loop from impression to conversion.
- Systems-level problem solver: comfortable navigating ambiguous, high-complexity challenges across distributed systems and infrastructure.
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and code design principles.
- Proficiency in at least one system language (Go preferred, Java, etc.) with a demonstrated ability to pick up new languages and adapt to a rapidly evolving stack.
- Database fluency: familiar with relational, columnar, and document-based databases with a strong sense of their respective strengths and ideal use cases.
- Strong technical communication: expresses ideas clearly through well-crafted code, written documentation, and team communication with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Collaborative by nature: as eager to mentor and share knowledge as to learn from others, with a genuine passion for craft and how great software gets built.
- Experience proposing, provisioning and testing infrastructure with cloud ops: Terraform (preferred), Cloudformation, etc.
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Company Overview: Jane Technologies is an MIT-founded eCommerce company in the cannabis industry experiencing rapid growth. We believe in cannabis's ability to bring well-being, health, and love to the world, and our mission is to bring confidence to the online cannabis shopping experience. Our platform connects consumers with local dispensaries and brands, creating a seamless shopping experience and delivering industry-leading insights to our retail, brand, and integration partners. Dispensaries use Jane to sell cannabis products compliantly and efficiently. Brands plug into the platform to reach shoppers via personalized sponsored content. Shoppers engage with Jane's online menus to make purchasing decisions via rich product content and verified reviews. These services come together to form a tightly integrated ecosystem - creating diversified revenue streams for Jane and a win-win-win equation for the industry. Learn about our team, our culture, and if Jane is the right fit for you. Check out our company at: https://www.iheartjane.com/team#careers We are a small close-knit team of highly technical engineers with diverse backgrounds. We have a strong engineering culture, which values lean development, data-driven practices. We are rapidly growing 20% month over month and are always tackling challenging and interesting technical problems We are building a robust, feature-rich, and easy-to-use advertising platform that improves the marketing efficiency for brands and dispensaries. We're AI-enabled, not AI-driven. AI tools (Claude, AI-assisted reviews, generated plans) are part of how we work, but the engineering judgement behind every decision is human.
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