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Our team thrives on that energy. When we’re not helping clients deliver business-critical outcomes, we’re refining our craft and celebrating what it means to do hard things well.\nWe’ve built a collaborative, tight-knit culture that thrives in both remote and in-person settings. We’ve won numerous workplace awards over the years, including Great Place to Work certification and recognition from Parity.org as a Best Company for Women to Advance.\nOur clients include well-known brands like Vizio, Peloton, Clear, iHeart Radio, and Fellowes - all determined to leverage connected devices and AI to drive meaningful impact. Our job is simple: help them win.\nAs a Senior AdTech Engineer, you'll join a client's engineering team through Very's staff augmentation model, working as an embedded member of their team on programmatic advertising infrastructure. You'll work across the ad serving pipeline, from bid request handling through creative delivery, in high-throughput, low-latency environments on AWS.\nThis role is hands-on and long term. You'll work in the client's codebase, tools and processes, take part in their code reviews and on-call rotation, and report day to day to their engineering leads, while staying part of the Very team. At Very, a senior engineer has deep expertise in their specialty and works independently in their domain without needing detailed direction.\nThis is not an easy role. You'll work under real deadlines with a client who expects you to be available, proactive and delivering from day one. If you like doing hard things well, you'll fit right in.\nWhat You’ll Be Working On\nAs an embedded member of the client's engineering team, you'll:\nBuild and maintain real-time bidding (RTB) infrastructure, including the bid request/response lifecycle, auction logic and win notification handling.\nIntegrate with ad server platforms, including tag management, creative rendering and VAST compliance.\nDesign and operate AWS systems that scale elastically under variable, auction-driven traffic.\nBuild and support data pipelines for bid stream processing, event logging, reporting, attribution and frequency capping.\nOptimize for low latency, high throughput and cost-efficient architecture at volume.\nTake part in the on-call rotation and help maintain system health, performance and reliability.\nCollaborate across engineering, product and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality outcomes.\nIdentify and proactively address potential technical or operational risks before they affect revenue or customers.\nYou'll operate in an environment that includes:\nAd Tech:OpenRTB, IAB standards (ads.txt, sellers.json, VAST/VPAID), Spring Serve, header bidding (Prebid)\nCloud:AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, auto-scaling, CloudFront, S3, Athena/Redshift)\nStreaming:Managed Kafka (MSK) or Kinesis\nDatabases & Caching:DynamoDB, Redis\nInfrastructure as Code:AWS CDK, Terraform\nDevOps:Docker, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines\nObservability:Logging, monitoring, alerting and production diagnostics\nOutcomes\nKeep Auctions Fast and Reliable:Make sure bid handling meets strict latency targets and stays available under peak traffic.\nScale With Confidence:Build infrastructure that scales elastically with auction-driven traffic while keeping cloud costs under control.\nEnsure Accurate Data:Deliver reliable impression, event and reporting pipelines the business can trust.\nDeliver High-Quality Features:Ship secure, reliable code that meets requirements and delivers measurable business value.\nBe a Trusted Team Member:Integrate fully with the client's team and become someone they rely on.\nResponsibilities\nDevelop and maintain RTB and ad serving components that comply with OpenRTB and IAB standards.\nBuild and support integrations with ad server platforms such as Spring Serve.\nDesign, build and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure using AWS CDK and/or Terraform.\nBuild and operate bid stream and event processing pipelines using Kafka or Kinesis.\nOwn deployments, CI/CD pipelines, logging, monitoring and alerting.\nWork within the client's engineering processes, tools and team rituals (standups, sprint planning, code reviews).\nTake part in the 24/7 on-call rotation and help diagnose and resolve production issues.\nSupport documentation and knowledge sharing within the team.\nMinimum Qualifications\nGeneral Experience\nBS or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field\n8+ years of professional software development experience\nHands-on experience building programmatic advertising systems (ad networks, SSPs, DSPs, ad exchanges, ad-tech startups or publisher-side engineering)\nExperience working in high-throughput, low-latency production environments\nExperience designing and operating systems on AWS at scale\nFull software development lifecycle experience, including requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment and operations\nGreat to have\nSpring Serve ad server integration experience (a strong differentiator)\nHeader bidding experience (Prebid.js or server-side)\nSSP or DSP platform internals\nCTV/OTT ad delivery experience\nPrivacy and consent frameworks (TCF, GPP, CCPA signal handling)\nInfrastructure as code with AWS CDK or Terraform\nExperience working embedded in client or distributed teams (staff augmentation or consulting)\nTechnical Proficiency\nStrong knowledge of the OpenRTB specification and IAB technical standards (ads.txt, sellers.json, VAST/VPAID)\nExperience with the real-time bidding lifecycle: bid requests/responses, auction mechanics and win notifications\nExperience integrating with or building against ad server platforms\nAWS scaling patterns for ad-tech workloads, including:EC2/ECS/EKS auto-scaling\nCloudFront for creative delivery\nDynamoDB or Redis for low-latency lookups\nS3 with Athena or Redshift for impression and event logging\n\nHands-on experience with infrastructure as code (AWS CDK or Terraform)\nExperience building data pipelines for reporting, attribution and frequency capping\nExperience debugging distributed production systems at scale\nRequirements\nMust be based in Colombia.\nProfessional English fluency.\nAbility to work with significant overlap with US business hours.\nSkills\nClient Obsessed:Keeps the client’s success front and center. Measures technical choices by their business impact.\nClear Communicator: Collaborates effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nQuality-Driven: Holds themselves to high standards for code quality and reliability.\nOwnership Mindset:Takes responsibility for delivering solutions that work in real-world conditions.\nProblem Solver:Thrive in complexity and find solutions even when requirements are evolving.\nCompensation & Contract Details\nHourly rate: $50/hr USD\nContract Type\nThough this role is structured as a contract engagement, the scope of work is substantial and may approximate a full-time (40 hours/week) workload\nThis role requires availability during core client business hours, Monday - Friday 9 - 5 ET\nRequirements Must have access to your own computer/device, design software, and a reliable internet connection.\nWhy Work for Very\nWe do not promise an easy ride - we promise meaningful work.\nWe work hard because our clients’ success depends on it, and we take pride in delivering when others can’t. We collaborate closely, move fast, and stay grounded in results. We take joy in the process - in the problem-solving, the iteration, and the shared wins that come from doing the hard things well.\nIf you’re looking for a place where every project matters, where the standards are high, and where you’ll grow by pushing yourself and others - welcome to Very.\nInterviewing for a new company is a serious time commitment for all parties involved. Please take the time to read this and thoughtfully consider if we would be a good fit for one another. No agencies. 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