About Wunderkind:

Wunderkind ads are behaviorally triggered meaning that ads are served on a premium list of publishers only when a user is done consuming content. Our proprietary tag is integrated directly on the publisher page to track on-site user behavior - making net newad placements.Howwe serve the ad is why we are different from our competitors in-market.

Rather than placing an ad in front of someone while theyre actively trying to read content our technology patiently waits until a visitor has stopped reading before rendering our ad on the page. And that patience pays off -- it turns out that when an ad experience respects the users reason for visiting a page the user respects the ad experience in return. This unique brand safe approach to ad experience gives an advertisers message more attention and greater engagement.

Summary

We are seeking a senior full stack engineer who can help deliver Wunderkind Advertisings roadmap across supply demand and platform investments. This includes building and scaling campaign placements and triggers (overlay takeovers mastheads in-feed gallery / milestone units slider placements progress bars ad refresh and multiple-campaign activation) integrating SSP demand sources improving OpenRTB-based auction flows and evolving advertiser / publisher tooling and reporting. The ideal profile combines strong backend engineering practical frontend product development and fluency in ad-tech concepts and vocabulary.

The Profile We Are Looking For

• A senior engineer who can move comfortably between backend services APIs data / event flows and frontend product surfaces without losing momentum in either layer.
• Someone who can reason about advertising systems using the language of supply demand campaigns placements bid requests SSP integrations OpenRTB creative constraints pacing segmentation and reporting.
• An engineer who can translate roadmap themes into implementation plans - for example new ad placements campaign-type expansion refresh logic segmentation controls bulk-edit tooling publisher workflows and advertiser-facing reporting capabilities.
• A pragmatic builder who can operate in ambiguity identify the right system boundaries and ship incremental value while preserving long-term platform quality.
• Ads-space experience is a strong asset; CTV SSP auction or broader ad-tech experience is especially valuable.

Role Responsibilities:

• Design build and maintain full stack product capabilities across backend services APIs frontend interfaces and internal tools that support Wunderkind Advertising.
• Implement supply-side product capabilities such as new placements trigger logic refresh behavior and multi-campaign activation rules across onsite in-app and adjacent ad surfaces.
• Build frontend and backend workflows that support advertiser and publisher use cases including segmentation controls placement configuration campaign setup and bulk-edit or operational tooling.
• Contribute to demand-side integrations and optimization work including SSP onboarding OpenRTB request / response handling auction logic curation flows and traffic-shaping or path-optimization capabilities.
• Partner closely with product managers designers and engineers to translate roadmap items into clear technical designs scoped milestones and production-ready implementations.
• Develop reporting and observability capabilities that improve visibility into bids impressions inventory advertiser outcomes and platform health.
• Write clean modular testable code and uphold strong engineering standards through code reviews documentation and thoughtful system design.
• Help shape architecture and delivery decisions around latency-sensitive systems event-driven workflows privacy-aware data handling and operational reliability.
• Support production readiness by contributing to monitoring troubleshooting incident response and ongoing platform improvements.

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of professional software engineering experience including substantial hands-on experience in both backend and frontend development.
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Go Java or similar with experience building production APIs services and integrations.
• Strong proficiency in modern frontend development ideally with React and TypeScript including experience building product configuration or operational interfaces.
• Experience designing and integrating with RESTful APIs event-driven systems and service-oriented architectures.
• Ability to model and implement business logic for campaigns placements segmentation reporting or workflow configuration in a scalable and maintainable way.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals production debugging observability and performance considerations.
• Ability to reason about ad-tech concepts such as supply and demand flows SSP integrations OpenRTB VAST impression / click tracking creative metadata privacy signals and latency-sensitive request paths.
• Experience working with telemetry analytics or event streams to power reporting and operational visibility.
• Comfort working across the full delivery lifecycle: discovery technical design implementation testing deployment and post-launch support.
• Strong problem-solving skills attention to detail and the judgment to make pragmatic trade-offs in ambiguous environments.
• Ability to work independently and autonomously without requiring constant supervision.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Additional Qualifications:

What Success Looks Like

• You independently deliver meaningful product and platform work across both backend and frontend surfaces.
• You raise the teams ability to operate in Ads by bringing strong technical judgment and by navigating the language and constraints of the domain.
• You contribute to roadmap delivery across new placements campaign capabilities integrations and reporting without requiring heavy translation from domain experts.
• You help reduce execution risk by identifying technical gaps early shaping sound implementation plans and driving work to completion.

This role is intended for a senior engineer who can bring the technical language systems thinking and implementation depth needed to operate effectively in a growing Ads / CTV space.

The base salary range for this role is $160000.00 to $175000.00. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each specific candidate; including but not limited to skill set depth of experience applicable certifications and geographic work location. This may vary depending on living location and market rate.