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Engineering29 days agoOn-site

Moloco

Senior Software Engineer, Ads Quality

machine learningAIads qualityad techbidding logicproduct leadershipcross-functionalexperimentationdata science

Key details

Salary

Not specified

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority

Lead

Years experience

5-10

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Full job description

Lead engineering tech lead role focused on advancing Moloco’s Ads Quality systems to improve advertiser performance and user experience. Responsibilities include leading quality initiatives end to end, partnering cross-functionally with product, data science, engineering, sales, and marketing, translating customer needs into priorities, and contributing hands-on to the tech stack including bidding logic and quality systems. Requires senior hands-on engineering experience, proven leadership of large initiatives, strong communication skills, and preference for ads or ad tech experience. Benefits include medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k) with match, disability coverage, life insurance, paid holidays, Thrive Days, flexible time off, and potential bonus and equity awards. Location is Menlo Park, CA.

What you'll do

  • Lead vertically focused quality initiatives from concept through launch, measurement, and iteration
  • Own problems end to end, from identifying advertiser pain points to driving cross-functional execution across the stack
  • Partner closely with Product, Data Science, Engineering, TPM, Sales, Marketing, and other stakeholders to ensure solutions are technically strong and commercially impactful
  • Translate customer and market needs into product and engineering priorities
  • Step into ambiguous, fast-moving situations and improvise effectively when new constraints or opportunities emerge
  • Represent the technical and product context for key advertisers, helping internal teams and external partners align on how to improve performance
  • Contribute hands-on across Moloco’s stack, with exposure to areas such as bidding logic, advertiser-facing product surfaces, and quality systems
  • Help incubate new ideas, run experiments, and turn successful vertical learnings into scalable product capabilities
  • Communicate clearly and persuasively, bringing partners along the journey and building alignment across a broad set of functions

Requirements

  • Senior, hands-on engineer
  • Proven ability to lead large, ambiguous initiatives end to end
  • Strong communicator who can influence across technical and non-technical audiences
  • Comfortable operating with more breadth than depth, and switching between strategic, technical, and operational work as needed
  • Track record of driving outcomes directly through both technical contribution and coordination
  • Strong preference for ads or ad tech experience
  • Experience working on ads quality, traffic quality, search quality, feed quality, or adjacent quality-focused systems
  • Experience leading a vertical, domain, or product area where success depended on aligning multiple teams around customer and business outcomes
  • Experience in environments where rapid experimentation, analysis, and ideation are core to the way teams work

Tech stack

machine learningAIadvertising technologybidding logicads quality systems

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance401(k) plan with company matchShort-term and long-term disability coverageBasic life insuranceWell-being benefits and perksUp to 12 scheduled paid holidays per calendar yearOne Thrive Day off per quarterFlexible Time Off (FTO)Potential eligibility for bonus and equity awards

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