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Senior Software Engineer, Ads Team

UKRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 27 Oct 2023

About the role

IXL Learning, a leading edtech company with products used by 14 million students worldwide, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer who has a passion for technology and education to join our new team leading programmatic digital advertising initiatives.

IXL Learning is home to 5 ads-supported properties operating under a Freemium business model, monetizing the traffic from millions of users with digital advertising:

SpanishDictionary.com is a leading website and mobile app for English speakers who are learning Spanish with 20 million monthly active users.
inglés.com is an emerging website and mobile app for Spanish speakers who are learning English with 5 million monthly active users.
ABCya.com is a leading learning resource featuring fun educational games for kids from pre-K to 6th grade with 15 million monthly active users.
Multiplication.com is an interactive learning website designed to help kids master the multiplication tables with 1 million monthly active users.
Homeschoolmath.net is a one-stop shop of math resources for homeschooling parents and teachers.

We are now developing our in-house adtech to consolidate and scale our advertising operations into a unified stack to service all of our ads-supported properties. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to lead this exciting technical transition.

This is a full-time remote position for candidates in the United States, strong preference for those in the Eastern time zone.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

Building a unified header-bidding ads solution using Prebid.js and Google Ad Manager (GAM) that can be used across all of IXL’s ad-supported properties
Optimizing billions of ad impressions to maximize revenue while maintaining a high-quality user experience
Executing A/B tests to improve ad revenue performance
Enhancing our analytics pipeline to ingest our ads events and facilitate data analysis across brands
Determining opportunities for growth by analyzing technical and ad performance data
Tracking down and addressing ad quality problems to ensure a great user experience
Full-stack web development using technologies like Node.js, React, SQL, AWS, and Docker

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
Familiarity with the programmatic ad life cycle. Experience working with header bidding technologies such as GAM and Prebid.js
Strong understanding of JavaScript
Knowledge of Node, React, AWS, and SQL, or the ability to learn them quickly
Experience with techniques for optimizing web page speed
Strong communication, analytical-reasoning, and problem-solving skills

TEAM PROJECTS AND CULTURE

We developed and manage a diversified in-house header bidding advertising stack, optimized across billions of impressions.
We created a data analytics platform to process events from our ad system in real time, at scale, using AWS Redshift and Looker
We executed hundreds of A/B tests to identify optimal strategies within our ad stack
We optimized our sites’ performance for Core Web Vitals
We deployed a high-availability, automated, and scalable server infrastructure on AWS with an uptime of more than 99.999% last year.
We’ve brought together a talented team that is down-to-earth, friendly, and driven to build products that people use and love
Our technology stack is state-of-the-art, and we pride ourselves on an engineering culture committed to data-informed decisions, focus on value, rapid iteration, broad test coverage, extensive automation, peer-reviewed code, and fast deployments
Software drives our business, and we understand the value of having time for engineers to focus on technical priorities
This role will join a small team, which means every engineer on the team has a huge impact across millions of users and very low barriers to getting things done

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