Software Engineer, Creative Platform

Liftoff is a leading AI-powered performance marketing platform for the mobile app economy. Our end-to-end technology stack helps app marketers acquire and retain high-value users, while enabling publishers to maximize revenue across programmatic and direct demand.

Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.

About the team:

The Creative Platform team is responsible for creating and maintaining the liftoff Accelerate platform for creative management and analytics serving a multitude of Accelerate teams. This includes a growing B2B creative management API, full stack internal creative management UIs and a customer facing creative management portal (creative lab). The Creative Platform team works closely with Accelerate operations to drive performance, solving complex reporting problems and finding innovative solutions to optimize creative production. As a software engineer on the team, you will build our creative management API, maintain complex UIs and support background services related to these products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and have end-to-end ownership of Liftoff's creative tooling and workflow products, including API solutions, customer facing dashboards and various internal production tools.

• Understand and implement requirements to serve cross-functional needs.

• Participate in roadmap brainstorming and planning.

• Contribute to an “engineering excellence” culture through state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems, and code review.

• Leverage your expertise in Golang, ES6, Typescript, React or other technologies to empower and mentor the engineering team - maximizing team velocity.

• Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and technical decision-making processes that affect the entire tech stack.

• Help define and improve coding standards, development processes and best practices.

• Foster and improve good user experience of existing and new UIs.

• Join a nimble, consistently excellent, and experienced engineering team.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience

• Experience with Golang, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python is desirable.

• Experience with Clojure would be a bonus.

• Basic knowledge of various ad formats (e.g., display, video, native) and technologies like VAST, VPAID, and MRAID is a big plus.

• Very strong coding ability.

• Solid core CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, architecting systems).

• Familiarity with front-end UI standards and conventions and with implementing component-driven design.

• Experience building performant, reliable, and reusable full-stack services.

Compensation:

Liftoff offers all employees a full compensation package that includes equity and health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence. Base compensation will vary based on candidate location and experience. The following are our base salary ranges for this role:

• SF Bay Area, Los Angeles/Orange County, NYC, Seattle: $165,000 - $200,000

• All other California and Washington state locations, Austin, Boston, Denver, Portland: $152,000 - $182,000

• All other locations in our approved states: $142,000 - $172,000

• Canada: $135,000 - $160,000 CAD

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Liftoff offers a fast-paced, collaborative, and innovative work environment where employees are empowered to grow and make an impact. We’re shaping the future of the mobile app ecosystem—join us and help accelerate what’s next.

Liftoff’s compensation strategy includes competitive salaries, equity, and benefits designed to support employee well-being and performance. We benchmark compensation based on role, level, and location to ensure fairness and market alignment. Benefits may include medical coverage, wellness stipends, and additional perks based on your country of residence.

Liftoff is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:

Liftoff does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team. All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Liftoff vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Liftoff Recruiting Team and such a candidate was submitted to the Liftoff Recruiting Team via our Applicant Tracking System.