Staff Software Engineer, Ads
Staff engineer who defines the technical strategy and architecture of GameChanger's advertising platform, spanning video ads, server-side ad insertion, connected TV, and programmatic. Hands-on technical leadership building scalable backend ad systems (TypeScript/Node.js on AWS) while mentoring engineers and shaping cross-team roadmaps.
- Compensation
- $165K–$185K / yr
- Location
- GameChanger Remote - US
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 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 foundation and video advertising support
- Experience with one or more areas of the modern advertising ecosystem (ad serving, video ad delivery, SSAI/CSAI, VAST, programmatic, 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
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
Full description
About GameChanger:
We believe in the life-changing impact youth sports have on and off the field because they encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence—important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.
So if you love sports and their community-building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.
The Position:
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will help define and drive the technical strategy for our advertising platform as we expand how advertising is delivered across live sports experiences. You will serve as a technical leader for the team, shaping architecture, identifying long-term platform investments, and helping us build advertising systems that are reliable, scalable, and adaptable to new business opportunities.
You will bring advertising technology expertise to help us evolve our current capabilities while preparing for more sophisticated experiences in video and server side advertising. You will work closely with Engineering, Product, Design, Data, and business partners to translate advertising opportunities into thoughtful technical strategies and scalable solutions.
This role extends beyond individual project execution. You'll help identify technical opportunities and risks, establish architectural direction, mentor engineers, and influence technical decisions across teams whose systems intersect with advertising, video, and monetization. You will report to an Engineering leader in the Ads space.
What You’ll Do:
- Define and drive the technical strategy for our advertising platform, establishing an architecture that can evolve with our product and advertising business.
- Provide technical leadership for current and future advertising capabilities, such as video ads, server-side advertising, connected TV experiences, programmatic advertising, and new ad formats.
- Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to identify technical investments that unlock new advertising capabilities and revenue opportunities.
- Lead architecture and system design for complex, cross-functional initiatives spanning advertising, video, backend services, clients, and data systems.
- Evaluate architectural approaches and third-party advertising technologies, clearly communicating tradeoffs across scalability, reliability, user experience, implementation complexity, and business needs.