Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy. Our end-to-end technology stack helps app marketers acquire and retain high-value users, while enabling publishers to maximize revenue across programmatic and direct demand.
Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.
About the Creative Serving team:
The Creative Serving team maintains and operates mission critical systems involved in every ad serving across Liftoff’s product line. Our systems are foundational and fundamental for Liftoff to function and thrive. As a senior staff engineer, you will build and maintain deep, strategic integration with our partner exchanges, assure impeccable uptime and drive cost effective content delivery world-wide. This includes close collaboration with our internal Vungle Exchange and SDK to help enable Liftoff Exclusive advertising capabilities.
As a senior member of the staff, you will also be a critical part of championing engineering culture, as well partnerships with commercial and product teams. We will look to you to provide critical input to team and company wide architectural planning and roadmap to face the dynamic ad tech ecosystem. Your specific responsibilities will include:
Responsibilities:
- Co-own the real time ad serving architecture with other senior engineers. Proven track record in owning and evolving large backend systems by setting vision and successfully executing with a team to achieve it.
- Work cross-functionally to define requirements and plot a long term roadmap for our systems.
- Continuously optimize and streamline our ad serving infrastructure to assure up time, visibility, and cost effectiveness.
- Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and technical decision-making processes that affect the entire tech stack.
- Help define and improve coding standards, development processes and best practices
- Lead and mentor other engineers, fostering a culture of learning and collaboration within the team.
- Help shape our long-term Creative Serving strategy and roadmap.
Requirements:
- Deep coding ability in GoLang, JavaScript and TypeScript are required. Clojure would be a bonus.
- Understanding of various ad formats (e.g., display, video, native) and technologies like VAST, VPAID, and MRAID.
- Experience with video compression and streaming via CDNs.
- Prior experience with mission critical systems. Preferably creative serving in the ad-tech space.
- Deep knowledge of the ad tech ecosystem, real time bidding (RTB) protocol.
- 8+ years of industry experience.
- Good communicator, empathetic and attentive listener.
Working at Liftoff is fast-paced, fun, and challenging, and we thrive on innovation. Come join the rocket ship and help shape the future of the mobile app ecosystem with us!
Location:
This role is eligible for full-time remote work in one of our entities: CA, CO, ID, IL, FL, GA, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NV, NY, OR, PA, TX, UT, and WA.
We are a remote-first company with US hubs in Redwood City, Los Angeles, and New York City.
Travel Expectations:
We offer several opportunities for in-person team gatherings, including but not limited to project meetings, regional meetups, and company-wide events. We expect our employees to attend these gatherings at least once per quarter. These gatherings provide essential opportunities for collaboration, communication, and team building.
Compensation:
Liftoff offers all employees a full compensation package that includes equity and health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence. Base compensation will vary based on candidate's location and experience.
The following are our base salary ranges for this role:
- SF Bay Area, NYC, Los Angeles/Orange County, Seattle: $225,000 - $250,000
- All other California and Washington state locations, Austin, Boston, Denver, Portland: $207,000 - $230,000
- All other cities and towns in our approved states: $193,500 - $215,000
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Liftoff offers a fast-paced, collaborative, and innovative work environment where employees are empowered to grow and make an impact. We’re shaping the future of the mobile app ecosystem—join us and help accelerate what’s next.
Liftoff’s compensation strategy includes competitive salaries, equity, and benefits designed to support employee well-being and performance. We benchmark compensation based on role, level, and location to ensure fairness and market alignment. Benefits may include medical coverage, wellness stipends, and additional perks based on your country of residence.
Liftoff is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:
Liftoff does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team. All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Liftoff vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Liftoff Recruiting Team and such a candidate was submitted to the Liftoff Recruiting Team via our Applicant Tracking System.
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