Staff Software Engineer (Tech Lead)

About Moloco:

Moloco builds some of the most powerful AI advertising solutions in the world. Our name—short for "machine learning company"—reflects our core mission: democratizing access to the advanced AI that has historically been reserved for tech giants. Led by machine learning pioneers who built some of the most successful ad systems at Google, including YouTube's monetization engine and key search advertising technologies, we're transforming how businesses grow and compete in the digital economy.

Built with AI from day one, Moloco’s planet-scale machine learning platform powers a suite of solutions for advertising growth and monetization. Moloco Ads is an AI-powered platform that delivers real business outcomes for mobile app marketers through performance-based user acquisition. Moloco Commerce Media enables retailers and marketplaces to build revenue-generating ad businesses that balance user experience and advertiser performance.

The Impact You’ll Be Contributing to Moloco:

Mocolo Commerce Media (MCM) is growing its engineering team to support our expansion in European Markets. We are looking for an experienced engineer who can be one of the early leaders in our London hub. MCM’s enterprise platform helps retailers of all sizes build and monetize their retail-media advertising business. Our global-scale infrastructure handles billions of ad auctions everyday, while our cutting-edge machine learning (ML) delivers high performance for advertisers and quality experiences for retail shoppers. The MCM engineering team is responsible for the foundational systems underlying this platform, including core ad-serving, campaign management, data infrastructure, and customer integrations.

The Opportunity:

• Design, develop and operate an end-to-end enterprise platform that remains fast, reliable and secure at scale.
• Build and maintain APIs and features for campaign management, ad serving, targeting, data ingestion and export, reporting and analytics, etc.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance for a site-based engineering team to deliver on their roadmap.
• Directly engage with customers to identify gaps, translate real world needs into engineering solutions, and deliver outcomes including legacy platform migrations, data connectors, bespoke features, workflows and analytics.
• Contribute to the strategic vision of the platform, influencing technical decisions and long-term architecture.
• Explore and prototype next generation features including those enabled by generative AI.

How Do I Know if the Role is Right For Me?

• 8+ years software development experience using one or more modern languages such as Java, Python and Go.
• 2+ years of leadership experience in delivering technical projects with a small (5+) team of engineers.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale distributed systems, from requirements gathering and design to implementation and production deployment.
• Experience in building platforms for digital advertising or e-commerce applications.
• Experience with cloud-based technologies (e.g., AWS, GCE, GCP, Beam, Spark, BigTable, BigQuery etc.)
• Experience working directly with customers with varying levels of technical knowledge, and translating ambiguous requirements into actionable roadmaps and technical solutions.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build and maintain cross-functional and customer relationships.
• Willingness to travel as needed (up to 20% travel).
• Multilingual proficiency (fluency in English, French beneficial).