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Job Description
Were building a next-generation AI-powered programmatic advertising platform that makes high-quality data-driven campaigns accessible to every marketer - from startups to established brands. Our platform empowers advertisers to create launch and optimize campaigns in minutes with real-time budget optimization and AI-generated creatives designed to improve performance.
Weve raised our first round validated market demand and are currently onboarding our first customers. Youll be joining at the ground floor supported by the former CTOs of unicorns and leading ad-tech companies.
Tasks
As Founding Engineer youll work directly with the founders to build and scale our core platform. Youll lead on technical decisions architect robust systems and deliver features that directly impact customer success. Expect to work across the stack from campaign UX to performance reporting with significant input into AI-based creative workflows and optimization logic.
What Youll Work On
- Multi-tenant advertiser platform: Campaign creation creative management targeting budgets approvals.
- Reporting & attribution: Low-latency dashboards providing near-instant performance insights with appropriate caching strategies.
- Ad spend optimization: Budget allocation pacing and performance improvement based on live campaign data.
- AI-powered creative generation: Automated asset creation and variation testing to maximize ROAS.
- Security & compliance: Tenant isolation JWT-based auth and clear service boundaries.
- Scalable infrastructure: CI/CD pipelines monitoring and deployment for high-traffic APIs.
Requirements
What Were Looking For
- 4 years in full-stack web development with strong experience in (TypeScript).Bonus: Express or Fastify (ideally with NestJS) and PostgreSQL (ideally with ORMs such as Prisma).
- Proven ability to design secure multi-tenant systems.
- Comfort with API-first architectures and typed contracts.
- Proficiency with Docker and containerized development workflows.
- Experience writing and maintaining automated tests for production systems.
- Experience setting up cloud infrastructure (preferably with Infrastructure-as-Code).
- Product mindset - iterating quickly based on user feedback.
Nice-to-Haves
- Prior work in programmatic advertising DSP/SSP integrations or attribution.
- AI/ML integration for creative generation or performance prediction.
- Early-stage startup or founding engineer experience.
- Strong observability and scaling practices for high-throughput systems.
Benefits
Why Join Us
- Stealth with momentum: Funded validated and in-market with early customers.
- Big technical impact: Your decisions will shape the platform for years.
- Expert backing: Work closely with former CTOs of unicorns and leading ad-tech companies.
- Significant equity: Directly tied to company growth and success.
- Growth path: Potential to evolve into CTO as we scale.
If youve been waiting for a chance to be there from the start build something category-defining and own both code and company direction - this is it.
Employment Type
Full Time
