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Our systems ingest, process, and serve tens of billions of data points from advertising platforms worldwide, turning fragmented, high-volume data into a fast, reliable, and flexible reporting experience.\nAs a Senior Software Engineer, you will tackle challenging distributed systems problems at scale. You will design and build backend services, improve the performance and reliability of critical systems, and develop robust integrations with a constantly changing ecosystem of advertising platforms. You will make architectural decisions, tackle complex technical trade-offs, and help ensure our systems remain maintainable as both their scale and capabilities grow.\nYou will have significant technical ownership and influence over how these systems evolve. Your work will directly shape the platform that global brands use to understand their advertising performance and make decisions in real time.\nWhat You Will Do\nDesign and build the reporting engine that enables users to create flexible analytical views across their advertising data\nSolve complex backend engineering challenges around performance, reliability, and large-scale analytical workloads\nDesign clean interfaces and abstractions that make it easy to integrate new advertising channels into a cohesive platform\nOwn technical decisions and drive software from design through production across our backend stack, including Ruby, TypeScript, Kafka, ClickHouse, and PostgreSQL/Citus\nImprove the architecture and engineering practices that keep our systems maintainable and resilient as they grow in scale and complexity\nMentor other engineers, contribute to technical direction, and help raise the engineering bar across the team\nWhat We Are Looking For\nExperience with complex backend systems: You have built and operated large-scale, highly available software systems and are comfortable reasoning about performance, reliability, and distributed systems\nStrong database fundamentals: You understand relational databases and query performance, and ideally have experience with analytical or OLAP workloads. Experience with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, or similar technologies is a plus\nDistributed and asynchronous processing: You have experience designing systems that handle concurrent background workloads, asynchronous processing, or event-driven architectures using technologies such as Kafka\nStrong software design skills: You care deeply about abstractions, interfaces, testing, and maintainability, and know how to keep complex systems understandable as they evolve\nTechnical ownership: You are hands-on and comfortable taking ambiguous, technically challenging problems from exploration and design through to production\nCollaborative leadership: You communicate clearly, work effectively across engineering teams, and help other engineers grow through mentoring, design discussions, and thoughtful technical feedback\n Bonus: Experience with or interest in query generation, abstract syntax trees (ASTs), compiler concepts, or domain-specific languages (DSLs) is a plus\nWhat We Offer You\nAt Smartly, we offer a place where you can advance your career. Here, you'll find:\nAn Inclusive Global Culture: Join a team of over 750 Smartlies, representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries. We cultivate a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback, where diverse perspectives are valued and encouraged.\nGlobal Impact: Contribute to a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers' success and business growth.\nFocus on Wellbeing: We prioritize your health with healthcare packages, mental health services, and a commitment to work-life balance through paid holidays and family leave.\nComprehensive Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and career development opportunities.\nFlexible Hybrid Workplace: Experience a hybrid work model, balancing office collaboration with remote work, and the option to work abroad for up to 30 days annually.\nSmartly is committed to being a great place for growth-minded individuals to thrive.\nApply Now and Build Your Future with Smartly!\nCurious what it’s like to work at Smartly? Visit ourCareers page to see how we grow, collaborate, and make impact together\nAbout Smartly\nSmartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company transforming ad experiences for brands and their consumers. Our comprehensive advertising platform seamlessly integrates the capabilities of media, creative, and intelligence to power more than 800 billion impressions and generate more than 300 billion creatives annually, delivering tangible business outcomes for brands and advertisers.\nSmartly is the only company in the industry recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Creative Advertising Technologies with PwC validating the results it delivers for brands. We manage creative and media for 700+ brands worldwide and $6B in ad spend across the largest media platforms, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. Our end-to-end technology, unmatched access to media platforms and exceptional customer service help Fortune 500 brands to reach and engage consumers and learn what performs best.Smartly is a multinational and diverse team of 750+ Smartlies from 60+ nationalities, working in 13 countries. Together, we want to create and maintain an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and heard. 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