Software Engineer

About Kargo

Kargo creates powerful connections between brands and consumers through innovative advertising solutions across AI, CTV, eCommerce, social, and mobile platforms. With a creative science approach, Kargo consistently delivers results that exceed industry benchmarks. Operating for over 20 years, Kargo has a global presence with offices in major cities worldwide.

Who We Hire

Kargo seeks driven individuals who are passionate about building, designing, communicating, collaborating, analyzing data, and innovating. They are looking for team members who are proactive and are already building the future.

Mission

This role is dedicated to building and maintaining the data infrastructure that powers dynamic, catalogue-driven advertising at scale. The CDA team owns the feeds and data ingestion layer, transforming large-scale product catalogues and transaction data from retailers into the building blocks for high-performing ads on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Pinterest. This engineer is essential for platform scalability, data flow, and advertiser success.

Role Type

This is a hybrid role requiring onsite presence 4 days per week.

Outcomes — What Success Looks Like in 6–12 Months

• End-to-End Feature Ownership: Ship multiple features independently, from technical design through deployment and monitoring, with minimal oversight and high production quality.
• Improved Data Ingestion Reliability: Identify and resolve bottlenecks or failure points in the feeds/ingestion pipeline, measurably improving uptime, latency, or data accuracy.
• Platform Thinking: Design clear API boundaries and system decisions that balance consuming teams' needs with long-term platform health, earning trust from peers and leads.
• Elevated Code Quality: Consistently deliver thorough code reviews that improve maintainability, testing, and observability practices across the team.
• AI-Native Engineering Growth: Integrate AI-assisted development tools meaningfully into your workflow, demonstrating how they expand scope or quality.

Skills — Core Technical Capabilities

Required:

• 4+ years building and maintaining production backend services or platforms.
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language (Node.js, Go, Python, Ruby, or equivalent).
• Experience designing services that process high-volume data (ingestion, transformation, or analysis at scale).
• Ability to define clean API boundaries and reason clearly about system design tradeoffs.
• Solid practices in testing, monitoring, and incident response.
• Strong communication skills for effective collaboration with engineers, PMs, and designers.

Preferred:

• Exposure to distributed systems, high-availability platforms, or large-scale data pipelines.
• Experience with cloud or containerized environments (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes).

Competencies — Behaviors We Like to See

Ownership without Prompting: Take features from design to production and follow through on monitoring and iteration without being asked; address issues proactively.
Platform Thinking over Short-Term Fixes: Make system design decisions considering how other teams will build upon the work; advocate for technical debt management and balanced tradeoffs.
AI-Native Craft: Possess a clear perspective on how AI tools enhance engineering practices; demonstrate intellectual curiosity and willingness to experiment with tooling.
Collaborative Standard-Setting: Use code reviews as craft conversations, providing feedback that improves code and engineers; invest in pairing and knowledge sharing with junior teammates.

Our Laurels

• AdAge Best Places to Work
• ThinkLA Partner of the Year
• Built In Best Places to Work
• Cynopsis 2025 Top Women in Media
• Martech Breakthrough Awards - Best Overall Adtech Company
• Digiday Media Awards Best Event
• Cynopsis Media Impact Awards - Best CTV Platform
• Martech Breakthrough Awards - CTV Innovation
• Adweek Media Plan of the Year Awards - Best Use of Insights

Follow Our Lead

• Website: kargo.com
• Instagram: @kargomobile
• LinkedIn: Kargo