Sr Software Engineer II - Ads Manager (Front End)

Team: IT

Location: Canada

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

• Lead the technical roadmap and frontend architecture for complex advertising web applications, balancing immediate product delivery with long-term scalability and extensibility.
• Design, build, and maintain high-quality React interfaces supporting campaign creation, management, reporting, and optimization.
• Define and evolve reusable components, state-management patterns, and frontend abstractions that improve maintainability and enable faster product development.
• Partner with backend engineers on API and data contracts to build robust, observable, reliable, and cost-efficient systems.
• Collaborate with frontend technical leads and engineering peers to establish alignment around frontend standards, architecture, and best practices.
• Champion application performance, reliability, and observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, and operational readiness.
• Drive modernization initiatives, technical debt reduction, migrations, and refactoring of legacy frontend systems.
• Incorporate security-by-design principles into frontend architecture and help lead responses to significant security or reliability issues affecting critical user experiences.
• Lead cross-functional and cross-team technical initiatives, aligning stakeholders and driving execution across product and engineering teams.
• Partner closely with designers to create intuitive, high-quality experiences for complex advertiser workflows.
• Mentor and sponsor engineers through L5 level, contribute to onboarding and team practices, and help resolve cross-team execution challenges.
• Help establish effective practices for AI-assisted development tools across coding, testing, refactoring, and engineering workflows.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience building modern web applications, with substantial ownership of complex, user-facing products.
• Deep expertise in Node.js and React, including hooks, state management, performance optimization, and development within large codebases.
• Strong frontend architecture skills spanning modularization, shared components, routing, data fetching, error handling, and scalable UI patterns.
• Experience designing and integrating REST and/or GraphQL APIs while working closely with backend engineering teams.
• Proven ability to lead large, ambiguous, multi-stakeholder technical initiatives from design and planning through rollout and ongoing operations.
• Demonstrated impact on engineering productivity and code quality through abstractions, tooling, testing, CI improvements, and development practices.
• Experience with web application monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog or similar technologies.
• Comfortable using AI-assisted developer tools in day-to-day engineering work and interested in helping teams scale their effective use.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills when working with engineers, product managers, designers, data scientists, and other stakeholders.
• Experience building large-scale, data-intensive user interfaces such as analytics dashboards, editors, or complex workflows is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with GraphQL at scale, including schemas, client-side patterns, and performance considerations, is preferred.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright is an advantage.
• Strong knowledge of frontend performance and reliability practices, including bundle optimization, code splitting, and resiliency patterns.
• Experience leading frontend modernization initiatives, framework upgrades, design system adoption, or legacy-system deprecation is preferred.
• Familiarity with design tools such as Figma and experience mentoring L3–L5 engineers are advantageous.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation based on the employee's permanent work location.
• Canadian base pay: USD $196,000–$207,000.
• Eligibility for a new-hire equity grant and annual equity refresh grants.
• Remote working model with flexibility around where employees do their best work.
• Flex First approach supporting work from home, office environments, or other suitable locations.
• Regular opportunities for in-person connection and team-building.
• Access to company benefits and wellness offerings.
• This role is currently open to candidates permanently located in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, or Nova Scotia.
• Immigration sponsorship eligibility should be confirmed based on the candidate's circumstances.