Software Engineering Lead, Affiliate Engineering

Your Mission

Located in the United States or Canada, and reporting to Thomas Boquet, Head of Real-Time Bidding, you will own all of our technical relationships and integrations with affiliate partners - the platforms that send us millions of leads, clicks, and calls daily - and serve as the primary technical point of contact for ensuring those partnerships are deeply integrated, high-performing, and continuously improving.

Your mission will be to ensure that our real-time bidding infrastructure:

• Seamlessly connects with dozens of affiliate platforms, giving us access to the broadest and highest-quality inventory possible
• Accurately and reliably receives, validates, and routes inbound data from affiliate requests through to our machine learning models
• Maintains a high degree of integration reliability, visibility, and performance across all affiliate channels

Your Initial Goals

Make every affiliate successful at integrating with our API

1. 1. By serving as a responsive, knowledgeable technical partner throughout the onboarding and integration process

   2. By systematically identifying and resolving bugs and gaps in existing integrations

      Proactively deepen our integrations with every affiliate

      1. By evolving our API to expose richer capabilities and unlock more inventory

      2. By collaborating directly with affiliate partners to identify and act on opportunities to expand the volume and quality of traffic we receive

      
      

Build visibility and confidence in our data pipeline

1. By documenting, understanding, and monitoring the full data flow from inbound API requests through to our machine learning models
2. By proactively tracking integration performance and surfacing issues before they become business problems

What You’ll Need to Succeed

1. Extensive Backend Engineering Experience – This role is nearly entirely backend focused. You should be comfortable exercising best practices in Python/FastAPI, working with high-throughput real-time systems, and deploying and operating services 

2. Communication Skills – You will work extensively with external affiliate partners, making clear and professional written and verbal communication essential. You'll need good judgment for navigating technical conversations with partners of varying sophistication and organizational complexity.

3. Process Orientation & Multitasking – You will be responsible for many simultaneous workstreams: active integrations, in-flight debugging, API evolution projects, and ongoing partner relationships. You'll need to design and maintain right-sized processes to keep everything on track without dropping balls.

4. Detail Orientation – Real-time bidding is an unforgiving environment where a single malformed field or misconfigured parameter can silently degrade performance or revenue. An extraordinary eye for detail is essential.

5. QA Mindset – You will be expected to build and maintain robust testing and validation practices to ensure integrations behave correctly end-to-end, especially as we scale to more affiliates and more inventory types.

6. Domain Knowledge (a Plus) – Familiarity with the insurance industry and/or real-time bidding ecosystems (leads, clicks, calls) will meaningfully accelerate your ability to make good decisions and earn credibility with partners.