Senior Software Engineer

About Jivox

At Jivox, we're pioneering the future of commerce media where Generative AI meets real shopper data through our AI-native platform, DaVinci Commerce, to create personalized brand experiences. We focus on innovative solutions like agentic shopping ads, autonomous creative compliance, and a platform that launches commerce campaigns in under 5 minutes. Our work powers some of the world's most recognizable brands (Nestl, P&G, Unilever) and major retailers (Giant Eagle, Stop & Shop) as they navigate the rapidly evolving commerce media landscape.

If you're excited about explaining cutting-edge AI technology to marketing professionals representing some of the largest global brands, this is the place for you.

Recognized as a leader in creative advertising technologies by Forrester Research, Jivox delivers 1:1 messaging throughout the customer journey, seamlessly linking paid and owned media. Jivox has offices in San Mateo, New York, Bangalore, Singapore and London.

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Ad Tech / Personalization Platform

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About the Role

Senior Software Engineer

You'll collaborate with product, data science, and client engineering teams to deliver high-performance solutions used in hundreds of millions of ad impressions daily.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-scale

  data ingestion, transformation, and real-time decisioning systems

  .
• Build and own

  custom integrations

  with DSPs, CDPs, ad servers, analytics platforms, and customer data APIs.
• Architect scalable services that support

  AI/ML-driven personalization

  , recommendation models, and creative automation pipelines.
• Improve performance of real-time advertising workflows such as dynamic creative rendering, content retrieval, and audience evaluation.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code across backend services and data pipelines.
• Partner with data science teams to productionize machine learning models, including feature engineering and model-serving components.
• Ensure reliability and low latency across distributed systems processing large volumes of events in real time.
• Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and drive engineering best practices.
• Contribute to continuous improvement in observability, CI/CD, and deployment automation.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in

  ad tech, martech, or other data-intensive environments

  .
• Strong proficiency in backend languages such as

  Java and Scala

  .
• Experience with

  large-scale data processing

  using technologies like Kafka, Spark, Flink, Beam, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with

  REST/GraphQL APIs

  , webhooks, OAuth flows, and partner integration frameworks.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, caching, message queues, and low-latency architectures.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases for storing high-volume datasets.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and system design.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the ad tech ecosystem: DCO, DSPs, CDPs, ad servers, identity graphs, event pipelines, or attribution systems.
• Knowledge of

  machine learning lifecycle

  , model deployment, feature stores, or real-time inferencing.
• Experience with creative automation, personalization engines, or rules-based decisioning systems.
• Familiarity with privacy compliance (GDPR, CCPA) and secure customer data handling.
• Experience with high-performance rendering systems (e.g., dynamic creative assembly).
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and client-facing teams.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Opportunity to build impactful technology used by global brands
• Work in an innovative, AI-forward ad tech environment
• Flexible, hybrid, or remote work options
• Growth opportunities in a fast-moving and high-scale engineering org