Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

At Index Exchange, we’re reinventing how digital advertising works-at scale. As a global advertising supply-side platform, we empower the world’s leading media owners and marketers to thrive in a programmatic, privacy-first ecosystem.

We’re a proud industry pioneer with over 20 years of experience accelerating the ad technology evolution. Our proprietary tech is trusted by some of the world’s largest brands and media owners and plays a crucial role in keeping the internet open, accessible, and largely free.

We process more than 550 billion real-time auctions every day (in comparison, Google processes 8.5 billion searches per day) with ultra-low latency. Our platform is vertically integrated from servers to networks and runs primarily on our own metal and cloud infrastructure. This end-to-end infrastructure is designed to provide both stability and agility, enabling us to adapt quickly as the market evolves.

At the core of it all is our engineering-first culture. Our engineers tackle internet-scale problems across tight-knit, global teams. From moving petabytes of data and optimizing with AI to making real-time infrastructure decisions, Indexers have the agency and influence to shape the future of advertising. We move fast, build thoughtfully, and stay grounded in our core values.

About The Role:

A Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience takes ownership of the developer workflow, from early design to project delivery. They select or build the right tools to remove obstacles and reduce friction for other engineers. They collaborate with other engineers from the whole organization to understand their pain points and address them accordingly, while maintaining high standards of quality and rigorous engineering practices. They contribute to and execute roadmaps for both short term and long-term solutions to streamline the software development lifecycle.

Here’s What You’ll be Doing:

• Fostering a collaborative environment by bringing people together to come up with better designs and approaches to complex problems
• Collaborate with engineers and leadership to deeply understand developer workflows and systematically improve them
• Lead cross-functional projects that result in reliability, efficiency, and overall cost-savings wins
• Champion, own and implement improvements to coding standards and practices
• Design, build, and maintain developer tools
• Finding practical technological solutions
• Adopt and deploy off-the-shelf tools to reduce developer friction
• Analyzing and estimating work in an agile environment
• You’ll be working on cutting edge programmatic ad tech systems that handle hundreds of billions of transactions every day

Here's What You Need:

• Knowledge of Python and/or Go, with a focus on the surrounding ecosystem of tools, libraries, and best practices
• Experience developing CI/CD pipelines used by multiple teams and products (preferably GitLab specific experience)
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Comfortable presenting milestones, accomplishments, and general updates related to developer experience to the engineering organization
• Designing, developing, maintaining, and documenting internal tools for internal and external customers
• Broad experience across many technologies and being comfortable working in new areas
• You are team-oriented and embrace change.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to think differently, and an understanding that compromise, negotiation, and practicality are important qualities
• Understanding and hands on experience with all aspects of developing end-to-end web applications and microservices. This includes architecting, coding, debugging, optimizing/refactoring, automated testing, and deploying of APIs
• Modular, extensible, reusable, maintainable, performant, and testable code
• Automated testing platforms and unit tests
• General computer science / engineering knowledge: Algorithms, design patterns, software architecture, etc.
• Experience building, maintaining, and delivering short term and long-term roadmaps

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

• Company paid comprehensive health and life insurance plans
• Paid Time off and flexible work schedules
• Company contribution to Provident Fund
• Participation in our company Stock options plan
• Company paid Parental Leave
• Monthly internet stipend
• Quarterly Wellness allowance
• Community engagement opportunities and donation-matching program
• Volunteer paid day off
• Annual virtual company retreats and regular community-led team events
• A workplace that supports a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment - learn more here

Equal employment opportunity

At Index Exchange, we believe that successful products are built by teams just as diverse as the audience who uses them. As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunities. We celebrate diversity of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. Additionally, we realize that diversity is deeper than any status or classification-diversity is the human experience. For those who show grit, passion, and humility-Index will welcome you.

Accessibility for applicants with disabilities

Index Exchange welcomes and encourages individuals with disabilities to apply to work with us.

If you require an accommodation, please share the details of your request and any information how we can assist you with the hiring recruiter when they contact you. Index Exchange will make reasonable efforts to ensure accommodation requests are met throughout the recruitment process.

Index Everywhere, Index Anywhere

Our corporate headquarters are in Toronto, with major offices in New York, Montreal, Kitchener, London, San Francisco, and many other global cities. As a major global advertising exchange, we are committed to operating as a tightly knit global team and embracing and empowering talent wherever our colleagues may be.