Staff Software Development Engineer, OpenX

Test

$185.7-218.5k

Salary dependent on location. + Bonus + Equity

React
Docker
Kubernetes
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
GraphQL
Java
Go
Terraform
Jenkins
Cypress
Spinnaker
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
OpenX

Sell-side platform

Open for applications

OpenX

Sell-side platform

201-500 employees

B2BEnterpriseMarketplaceBig dataMarketingAdvertising

Open for applications

$185.7-218.5k

Salary dependent on location. + Bonus + Equity

React
Docker
Kubernetes
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
GraphQL
Java
Go
Terraform
Jenkins
Cypress
Spinnaker
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US

201-500 employees

B2BEnterpriseMarketplaceBig dataMarketingAdvertising

Company mission

OpenX's mission is to create awesome programmatic marketplaces.

Role

Who you are

  • 7+ years of test automation experience
  • Proficiency in JavaScript, Python, or Go
  • Willingness to work with new programming languages and technologies
  • Ability to improve, debug, and maintain an automation framework codebase
  • Strong knowledge of software development methodologies, testing techniques, and quality assurance principles
  • CI/CD tools like Jenkins or Spinnaker
  • Excellent troubleshooting skills to triage complex issues
  • Proven leadership and mentoring abilities, with a track record of driving continuous improvement and innovation

Desirable

  • Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker
  • UI/UX, API (REST/GraphQL), and Data testing
  • Test frameworks: Cypress, Pytest, and TestNG
  • Advertising technologies and the advertising ecosystem
  • Application development
  • Strategies for AI model testing

What the job involves

  • We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer - Test who will join one of our full-stack teams to help define, create, and deliver innovative new features that bring advanced digital advertising functionality to publishers and advertisers on the Open Web
  • We are using the Scrum framework with an open-minded attitude to adapt the process to our needs
  • Within the team, you will have the opportunity to work closely with developers and other SDETs focusing on different domains (both frontend and backend), as well as be a part of the QA Guild focusing on making impactful changes to our tools and processes
  • Involved in all phases of product development, starting from requirements to validation and deployment
  • Work in a focused and nimble team that collaborates on common problems across products and across focus areas
  • Own components, processes, and workflows that demand professionalism, excellent communication, teamwork, and documentation skills
  • Monitor and maintain CI pipelines, and collaborate on CD enablement
  • Conduct root cause analysis of issues and provide solutions for better coverage and maintainability
  • Effectively communicate and participate as a crucial member of both the project teams and QA organization
  • Participate in the design and implementation of automation strategies, frameworks and infrastructure for a multitude of tests (functional, regression, load, performance, integration, etc)
  • Work closely with QA guilds to design and create tools for more efficient testing
  • Set and drive coding standards for the QA guilds
  • Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, tools, and trends in test automation and quality assurance

Our take

Programmatic advertising - the automatic placement of advertisements typically conducted via the internet and based on a personalised understanding of viewers’ online profiles - has become a vital tool for every business. OpenX provides the infrastructure for this booming industry with their ad exchange platform.

The company is now focused on adjusting its platforms to reflect the values of the modern society it is doing so much to shape. That means accepting tough but fair multi-million dollar FTC fines for data breaches as well as becoming the first ad exchange to go carbon neutral.

The challenge of competing with both ever-changing views on the value and efficacy of programmatic advertising is not a small one. However, OpenX has proven that it is able to innovate with the times. It has deep partnerships across the ecosystem, partnering with Attain in 2022 to enable supply-side targeting for advertisers, enabling the company to reach further heights.

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Kirsty

Company Specialist

Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

31% female employees

13% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Jan 2013

$25m

SERIES E

May 2011

$20m

SERIES D

Total funding: $75.5m

Company benefits

  • Dental and vision for both employees and their families
  • Unlimited paid time off policy
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance

Company values

  • We are one - One team. No exceptions. We are a group of strong and diverse individuals unified by a clear common purpose
  • Our customers define us - We know our business flourishes or dies because of our customers
  • OpenX is mine - We are all owners of OpenX. We stake our personal and professional reputations on the excellence of our work
  • We are an open book - We are eager to teach and share what we know with others
  • We evolve fast - We take risks and confront failure openly. We recognise and repeat success aggressively. We actively seek out and provide constructive criticism. Defensiveness is for weaklings!

Company HQ

Pasadena, CA

Leadership

Damon Reeve

(Board Director)

Previously Board Director at Snowplow Analytics for 3 years and CEO of Authenticated Digital for 4 years. Currently acts as CEO for Ozone.

Previously Limited Partner at FirstMark Capital for 8 years and Advisor at Flybridge Capital Partners for 4 years. Acts as CTO for Ozone.

John Gentry

(CEO, not founder)

Previously acted as President of Spot Runner, developer of the Malibu Media Platform, an online media exchange that simplifies the buying and selling of television media. Experience as Chief Revenue Officer of Green Dot, the pioneer and market leader in the prepaid debit card industry.

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