Lead Software Engineer Ads

Engineering Manager, Ads Platform

Jane Technologies is an MIT-founded eCommerce company in the cannabis industry experiencing rapid growth. Our mission is to bring confidence to the online cannabis shopping experience by connecting consumers with local dispensaries and brands, delivering industry-leading insights to our partners.

Our platform empowers dispensaries to sell compliantly, enables brands to reach shoppers through sponsored content, and provides consumers with seamless online menus. This integrated ecosystem creates diversified revenue streams and a win-win-win for the industry.

What You Will Do

• Lead a team of software engineers building scalable services, APIs, and SDKs for our digital merchandising platform.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other technical leads to establish shared prioritization frameworks and ensure roadmap alignment.
• Drive architecture and design decisions for the ads platform, setting technical direction and building consensus with staff engineers.
• Partner with Product Managers to ensure Jane’s advertising product offerings are robust, sound, and user-friendly.
• Work with Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers to collect, analyze, and leverage data for advertising improvements.
• Own and evolve engineering standards for the team, including code quality, review culture, and technical processes.
• Perform and participate in design and code reviews.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks through delegation.
• Manage and grow a team of 3-4 engineers through regular 1:1s, goal-setting, and performance feedback.
• Partner with engineering leadership on hiring, including defining roles, evaluating candidates, and assessing technical leveling.
• Identify team capability or process gaps and propose concrete improvements proactively.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience in a product-centered team.
• 2+ years in a lead or people-management role, with a track record of shipping meaningful work through a team.
• Demonstrates lead-level ownership: navigates ambiguity with the team and leadership, and proactively moves work forward against business goals.
• Experience with AdTech systems (ideally retail media, sponsored listings, or marketplace advertising), including ad serving, real-time decisioning, campaign pacing/budgeting, or attribution/measurement.
• Systems-level problem solver, comfortable navigating complex challenges across distributed systems and infrastructure.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and code design principles.
• Proficiency in at least one system language (Go preferred, Java, etc.) with an ability to adapt to a rapidly evolving stack.
• Database fluency: familiar with relational, columnar, and document-based databases and their use cases.
• Strong technical communication skills, able to articulate ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborative mindset: eager to mentor, share knowledge, and learn from others.
• Experience proposing, provisioning, and testing infrastructure with cloud ops (Terraform preferred, Cloudformation, etc.).

Compensation

$175,000 - $195,000 a year

Jane Technologies is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We participate in the E-Verify program to confirm employment authorization.