Software Engineer - Ad Tech

About the Company

About Insticator

Insticator improves engagement and increases ad revenue for publishers by providing interactive content while simultaneously increasing site views and driving purchase intent for brands. 
 
Over 350 million consumers are reached monthly across Insticator’s vast network of elite publishing partners, including: Warner Bros., Ancestry.com, Tribune Media, Rodale, Evolve Media, Crave Media, The Atlantic, Toronto Sun, and more.
 
Insticator empowers more than 6,000 content creators monthly, monetizing content opportunities for publishers and brands. We are a Inc 5,000 company and a Red Herring Global 100 recipient.

The Insticator Values

We recruit, promote, and reward based off of our four core values:

  • Sleeves Up - At Insticator we provide the autonomy and creativity needed to own your role, iterate where needed and drive impact on a massive scale.
  • 100% Viewability - Insticator is passionate about open feedback at all levels of the company. This allows us to fail fast, create in real time and build an open company culture.
  • Be Defiantly Great - We are defiant, that’s in our lifeblood, we accomplish what other people think are impossible. Challenging the status quo is our lifeblood.
  • Unconditional Empathy - Our customers are real people with real business needs, and we are here to listen and tackle accordingly. If we care and respect each other, there is no challenge we can’t overcome.

About the Role

Job title

Software Engineer - Ad Tech

Reports directly to the Vice President Of Engineering.

Job Overview

We are looking for an experienced full stack developer who is highly skilled in JavaScript to focus on Insticator’s advertisement system. You will be more specifically part of the team that is helping scale Insticator’s monetization platform.  Working in all aspects of the agile development lifecycle, you will be contributing to the teams success by architecting, creating and delivering new features and functionality in order to deliver the best possible advertising experience in the market.

Challenges and Opportunities for the position

We are currently working with 2000+ sites with different configurations, we provide a single solution that allows for unique customizations, allowing us to tailor solutions per site.  We need to support a great experience as visitors come from both desktop web and mobile, using Chrome, Firefox, or any other browsers, using a desktop, laptop, and tablet. We constantly iterate on the container for the ad serving with an internal advertisement management system, add new features, optimizing performance, testing new ideas and patching edge cases. We are serving billions of impressions per month on all kinds of websites with different audiences, we collect data from our embed and use them to serve better ads.


Responsibilities and Duties.
  • Working on existing advertising management system(Web app with Java backend) and the ad server container builds on top of Prebid.js with Vanilla Javascript.
  • Integrate new bidder adapters from various SSPs we are testing with, and integrate with the reporting API into the revenue management system.
  • Using Google Ad Manager API and other API from SSPs to streamline the process with automation.
  • Working with video ads using SpringServe, JWPlayer, etc.
  • Work on the internal analytics adapter to collect data for analysis purposes.
  • Explore Mobile in-app solution.
  • Working on the integration between the Insticator DMP with SSPs to set up PMP and direct deals with higher CPM.
  • Research and build the next generate of the advertising management system.
  • Working with ad ops team to solve issues with client integration and edge cases.
  • Create tools and reports to provide better transparency across teams and identify issues from the reporting. 
  • Collaborate with other component teams within engineering, product, ad ops, and account management teams for all kinds of challenges relevant to advertising.


Qualifications.

Professional competencies

  • 3+ years of experience in building web applications using Javascript.
  • 1+ year of experience with Prebid.js
  • Highly skilled with vanilla JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
  • Familiar using iframe, DOM, window, listener, ajax, JSONP, etc.
  • Experience with cookie, local storage, http headers.
  • Strong advertising industry knowledge regarding display ad, video ad, mobile ad, header bidding
  • Experience with Google DFP(Ad Manager) or other ad servers 
  • Experience in Java is a plus
  • Experience in TypeScript is a plus
  • Experience with React and Redux is a plus
  • Experience with AWS CloudFront, S3 is a plus
  • Experience with agile methodologies and worked within an engineering team to ensure business goals are achieved in tight deadlines.
  • A mentality of striving to achieve releases early and adding additional functionality to the releases or pushing code early.
  • Be a proactive self-starter, energetic, and upbeat
  • Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Cultural competencies

  • Creative confidence
  • Collaborative mindset and great teamwork skills
  • Skilled at receiving feedback, as well as providing it
  • Entrepreneurial & adaptable; great learning skills
  • Transparent & communicative, patient
  • Curious, research-minded, data-informed


Benefits.

Full time employment benefits

We offer a diverse package and the chance to grow financially with the company, including:

  • Competitive Salary
  • Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
  • Annual Performance Bonus
  • Stock options (so you have ownership in the company and benefit as it grows)
  • Flexible work schedule
  • Top of the line computers
  • 401k
  • Free breakfast and lunch on Fridays and office snacks
  • We sponsor H1B Visas and Green Cards
  • Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave

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