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Senior Fullstack Engineer — Benchmarks & Ad Studies
We're looking for a Senior Fullstack Engineer to join the team working on Benchmarks and Ad Studies at Smartly.
Our team builds systems that ingest, process, and transform large volumes of advertising data into capabilities used across Smartly's platform. The engineering challenges span data integrations, high-performance APIs, distributed processing, data modeling, and analytics computation.
This is a backend-heavy role (90% backend, 10% frontend) for an engineer who enjoys reasoning about complex systems: how data flows through them, where performance bottlenecks emerge, how services behave at scale, and how architectural decisions affect reliability and maintainability over time.
You'll operate as a strong senior individual contributor, owning complex technical problems and influencing the architecture and engineering practices of the team.
Our tech stack
Our environment includes:
- Node.js and TypeScript
- Redis
- Ruby on Rails and Sidekiq
- PostgreSQL
Depending on the problem, you may also work with or encounter technologies and concepts such as Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, data warehouses, and distributed data-processing systems.
We don't expect candidates to have worked with every technology in our stack. We care more about strong backend fundamentals and the ability to understand and improve complex systems.
What you’ll do
- Design, build, and evolve data-intensive backend services and APIs that operate reliably at scale.
- Build and maintain data ingestion pipelines and integrations with internal and external systems.
- Develop strategies for efficiently processing large volumes of data while maintaining high API performance and predictable system behavior.
- Design data models and processing architectures that balance performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Work on distributed systems where failures, retries, concurrency, consistency, and observability are part of the engineering problem.
- Identify performance bottlenecks across services, databases, and data-processing workflows and drive improvements.
- Take ownership of technical problems from design through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
- Influence architectural decisions and help the team make pragmatic technical trade-offs.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to turn complex product requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Raise the engineering bar through thoughtful design discussions, code reviews, and strong software engineering practices.
What we’re looking for
- Strong professional experience building backend systems with Node.js, TypeScript, or comparable modern backend technologies.
- Experience designing and operating robust, complex, distributed applications in production.
- Strong understanding of APIs, databases, data modeling, asynchronous processing, and backend performance.
- Experience working with systems that ingest, transform, or process significant amounts of data.
- Ability to reason about scalability, reliability, concurrency, failure modes, and system performance.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and an ability to make pragmatic architectural decisions.
- Experience taking ownership of technically ambiguous problems and driving them toward production-ready solutions.
- Ability to contribute to architecture and technical direction while operating effectively as a senior individual contributor.
- Clear communication and collaboration skills across engineering and product teams.
- Ability to work from our Mexico City office one day per week.
What We Offer You
At Smartly, we offer a place where you can advance your career. Here, you'll find:
An 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.
Global Impact: Contribute to a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers' success and business growth.
Focus 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.
Comprehensive Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and career development opportunities.
Flexible 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.
Apply Now and Build Your Future with Smartly!
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About Smartly
Smartly 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.
Smartly 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. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion approach is at the heart of it.
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