Senior Software Engineer, Ads Team

IXL Learning, a leading EdTech company with products used by 15 million students worldwide, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer who has a passion for technology and education to join our new team leading programmatic digital advertising initiatives.

IXL Learning is home to 5 ads-supported properties operating under a Freemium business model, monetizing the traffic from millions of users with digital advertising:

We are now developing our in-house adtech to consolidate and scale our advertising operations into a unified stack to service all of our ads-supported properties. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to lead this exciting technical transition. #LI-FA1

This is a full-time remote position for candidates in the United States, strong preference for those in the Eastern time zone. #LI-REMOTE

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

Building a unified header-bidding ads solution using Prebid.js and Google Ad Manager (GAM) that can be used across all of IXL’s ad-supported properties
Optimizing billions of ad impressions to maximize revenue while maintaining a high-quality user experience
Executing A/B tests to improve ad revenue performance
Enhancing our analytics pipeline to ingest our ads events and facilitate data analysis across brands
Determining opportunities for growth by analyzing technical and ad performance data using Looker
Tracking down and addressing ad quality problems to ensure a great user experience
Full-stack web development using technologies like Node.js, React, SQL, AWS, and Docker

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
Strong understanding of JavaScript
Knowledge of Node, React, AWS, and SQL, or the ability to learn them quickly
Experience with techniques for optimizing web page speed
Strong communication, analytical-reasoning, and problem-solving skills
Bonus: familiarity with the programmatic ad technologies

TEAM PROJECTS AND CULTURE

We developed and manage a diversified in-house header bidding advertising stack, optimized across billions of impressions.
We created a data analytics platform to process events from our ad system in real time, at scale, using AWS Redshift and Looker
We executed hundreds of A/B tests to identify optimal strategies within our ad stack
We optimized our sites’ performance for Core Web Vitals
We deployed a high-availability, automated, and scalable server infrastructure on AWS with an uptime of more than 99.999% last year.
We’ve brought together a talented team that is down-to-earth, friendly, and driven to build products that people use and love
Our technology stack is state-of-the-art, and we pride ourselves on an engineering culture committed to data-informed decisions, focus on value, rapid iteration, broad test coverage, extensive automation, peer-reviewed code, and fast deployments
Software drives our business, and we understand the value of having time for engineers to focus on technical priorities
This role will join a small team, which means every engineer on the team has a huge impact across millions of users and very low barriers to getting things done

ABOUT IXL LEARNING

IXL Learning is the country's largest EdTech company. We reach millions of learners through our diverse range of products. For example:

1 in 4 students in the United States uses IXL.com
Rosetta Stone provides an immersive learning experience for 25 languages
Wyzant is the nation's largest community of tutors, covering 300+ subjects
Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) is a comprehensive marketplace for millions of educator-created resources

Our mission is to create innovative products that will make a real, positive difference for learners and educators and we're looking for passionate, mission-minded people to join us in achieving this goal. We have a unique culture at IXL that fosters collaboration and the open exchange of ideas. We value our team and treat one another with kindness and respect. We approach our work with passion, tenacity, and authenticity. We find it immensely satisfying to develop products that impact the lives of millions and we are eager to have you join our team.

At IXL, we value diversity in age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, political and religious beliefs, and life experience, and we are proud to promote a work environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work. IXL Learning is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Senior Software Engineer, Ads Team - IXL

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

TEAM PROJECTS AND CULTURE

ABOUT IXL LEARNING