Senior Software Developer - Ad Tech

Job Description

About REDspace

At REDspace (REDspace.com) we’re a team of passionate innovators building cutting-edge software that powers some of the world’s leading brands. From video delivery and streaming to Adtech, cloud engineering, learning platforms, and custom web development, we help businesses solve complex problems and bring big ideas to life. Our clients include industry giants like Apple, Paramount, IBM, and Sony Pictures Television. 

We’re proud of the culture we’ve built; collaborative, curious, and people-focused. We support each other, celebrate wins, and never stop learning. If that sounds like your kind of team, we’d love to hear from you. 

Senior Software Developer - Ad Tech

Our ad infrastructure handles more than 10 billion ad requests a day across high-traffic business-news and media & entertainment publishers.

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Software Developer to own the architecture of the systems inside our advertising organization and to help set our technical direction, not just execute it. You’ll influence the foundational decisions about how our ad systems are built and how they scale, step into complex implementations to stabilize and simplify them, and turn early client relationships into trusted partnerships through technical work that holds up.

Our teams build the systems behind more than 10 billion ad requests a day for high-traffic media & entertainment and news publishers – this is a demanding, hands-on role. You should have enough range across the advertising domain to architect across it, the depth to be the person other developers come to when performance and reliability are on the line, and the ability to move fluidly between a deep technical conversation with developers and a strategic one with product, bringing everyone along.

Scope of Impact & Autonomy:

• Your solutions are designed to have a positive impact on the entire advertising organization and the broader developer group, not just a single project.
• You own architecture decisions that are difficult or expensive to reverse, and you’re trusted to make them.
• You advise Directors and leadership on technical strategy, privacy and data-handling frameworks, and where we invest.

Requirements

Primary Responsibilities:

• Own the architecture. Design, build, and evolve the systems behind our ad stack. High-throughput, low-latency services where performance and reliability are the job, not an afterthought.
• Set technical direction. Influence the foundational decisions about how our ad systems are built and how they scale. Help set the direction, not just deliver against it.
• Untangle the hard problems. Lead the resolution of the messiest issues; real-time bidding bottlenecks, data synchronization drops, broken platform integrations and provide the breakthrough on work that has stalled for weeks.
• Partner with product. Work directly with advertising product owners to shape what gets built. Explain tradeoffs clearly, push back when something doesn’t add up, and propose alternatives – steering product thinking rather than just taking requirements and shipping them.
• Set the standard. Mentor developers, define what developer excellence looks like in practice, and hold the bar on code review and documentation.
• Advise leadership. Partner with our leadership team on long-term technical strategy and on the privacy and data-handling frameworks that govern how we work.

Technical Expectations:

• Deep, hands-on experience across the advertising domain — OpenRTB and Pre-bid, server-side and header bidding, bidstream enrichment (identity, audience, content, and supply-chain signals), ad decisioning, SSP/DSP partners, and video/CTV delivery including server-side ad insertion. You may not have touched every one of these, but you should have enough range to architect across the domain.
• Strong programming and architecture fundamentals that carry across stacks. Our projects span languages and platforms. We care less about any single technology than about your ability to apply solid fundamentals to whatever a project needs. The domain knowledge is the hard requirement; the language is not.
• Has built data pipelines and real-time systems at scale, and is fluent in the latency and throughput tradeoffs that come with billions of requests a day, including keeping enrichment and capture off the critical bid path.
• Can step into an unfamiliar architecture, find the systemic weaknesses, and simplify it.
• Anticipates major technical and regulatory shifts and factors them into architectural choices up front.

Client Satisfaction & Business Value:

• The client views you as an extension of their own leadership team, trusting your deep understanding of advertising mechanics, and invites you into the "inner circle" of their strategic planning sessions, not just their backlog.
• Positions REDspace as a premier thought leader in the Ad Tech industry, where your presence on an account becomes a critical selling point for securing multi-million dollar media and technology contracts.
• Dramatically increases software business value by mediating between complex programmatic monetization goals and core engineering to balance technical perfection with commercial business constraints.

Benefits

Your well-being:

• Fully company-funded health, vision, dental, EFAP, and life insurance coverage with access to virtual doctor visits via Maple.
• Pension plan contribution matching.
• A flexible Health Spending Account and/or Lifestyle Spending Account.

Your career:

• A competitive compensation package, commensurate with experience.
• Weekly sharing sessions for projects and technology.
• Free access to a wide variety of training material, including access to Udemy Business.
• Team-oriented education strategy, which includes a professional development allowance.
• Consistent, frequent check-ins with leadership.

Compensation:

• The expected salary range for this position is $130,000-$175,000 CAD. (Final placement within the range is at the discretion of the hiring manager, based on relevant experience).

Vacancy Status:

• This is a posting for an existing vacancy on our Web Development Team.

AI & Automated Screening Disclosure:

• We use Workable to help manage our hiring process. This includes automated screening questions to confirm basic eligibility and AI-enabled tools to assist our team in reviewing applications. All final hiring decisions are made by a human recruiter.

Our commitment to diversity

At REDspace, we believe that diverse backgrounds, talents, skills, experiences, and perspectives strengthen our business and enrich the communities in which we work and live. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment where knowledge sharing and collaboration thrive, empowering our employees to achieve their best.

We are committed to growing and nurturing a workplace that values and respects every individual. Our hiring practices are based solely on merit and skill, ensuring that all employment-related and hiring decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or indigenous origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital status, or Veteran status.

Join us in our mission to create a dynamic and inclusive community where everyone can contribute and succeed.

Need accommodations?

We’re committed to providing an inclusive hiring process. If you require accommodation at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know. We’ll work with you to ensure an accessible and respectful experience.