Software Engineer, Ads (Remote)
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Remote
Reporting To: Ads Software Engineering lead
Description
We are on a journey to help the next million creators, publishers, and companies scale and monetize their audiences. beehiiv is already home to tens of thousands of the most popular newsletters in the world, and we're only 3 years old! The company quickly achieved $1M ARR in January 2023, over $7M just a year later in January 2024, and on pace for $15M to end 2025 📈.Â
Oh and the team is loaded with the some of the most talented and ambitious engineers in the industry.
beehiiv is currently sending over 2B emails per month and looking to build the next world-class ad platform for publishers. We are looking for someone to help build out our nascent ad network, removing manual processes, improving analytics and performance and generally proving out our startups biggest bet. Â
You will be a great fit if you have a well thought-out technical perspective that you balance with a practical desire to ship to customers. We’re seeking a self-motivated teammate who communicates early and often, and strives for the whole team to succeed.Â
We respect each other as individuals and know work is just one part of life; we want you to have the flexibility and support you need to achieve fulfillment in your personal and professional lives.
Technologies we work with:
- Ruby on Rails
- React
- Typescript
- Redis, PostgreSQL, Clickhouse,Â
Ideally you will have:
- Experience building production applications with Ruby on Rails, React, and Typescript
- Exceptional understanding of REST APIsÂ
- A solid understand of the publishing space, newsletter industry, and advertising.Â
- Comfortable writing thorough tests and prioritizing QA and related processes
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- Experience working with an agile development team
- 3+ years of relevant work experience
Nice to have:
- Experience building Ad Tech and core infrastructure for ad networks at scale
- Experience or exposure to machine learningÂ
- Experience using Heroku, Sentry, Github
- Familiarity with email-specific topics
- Experience working on small, highly productive engineering teamsÂ
- Experience optimizing high throughput postgres databases
- Keen design eye and a passion for building great user experiences
- Experience with Clickhouse, Kafka and kubernetes
What you will be responsible for
- Working across the stack on our Advertising platform, building better experiences for publishers and advertisers
- Helping integrate and build predictive models and advertisement
- Building fraud detection systems to improve the quality of data integrity via the ad network
- Prioritizing and triaging a backlog of in-demand feature requests and bugs
- Transitioning our tech ecosystem into a more robust and performant version of itself, continuously optimizing for scale
- Documenting your thought processes and development
- Bringing new ideas to work, suggesting creative solutions, and collaborating with others to bring the absolute best product to market
Why beehiiv?
We're remote. We believe that your best work is done where you feel safe, comfortable, and supported.
Empathy, not ego. Empathy opens the door to problem solving. Our team is uniquely talented and we can solve any problem when we lead with empathy.
Bias towards action. Most decisions can be changed or altered, but progress cannot be created without action. It is almost always better to deliver something today over something that may be better tomorrow.
Complete transparency. You will have full access to business metrics about the company.
Owner-attitude. Ownership creates a sense of pride and accountability. It empowers someone to stand up for what is right, with a long-term outlook.
We'll take care of you
- Competitive salary
- Stock Options
- Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k) employer match
- Unlimited PTO (mandatory 10 days per year minimum)
- Twice-annual in-person team retreat
- Unlimited book budget
- Two month sabbatical every three years
- Mental health day each month
