Full Stack Ad Tech Developer

About the role

Be Part of What’s Next

Behind every great digital experience is the technology that makes it possible. As a Full Stack Ad Tech Developer at Hearst Magazines, you’ll help build the systems that power advertising, audience insights, and revenue across one of the world’s leading media companies, solving complex engineering challenges while shaping the future of digital publishing.

About Hearst Magazines (Why Us?)

We create media that moves minds, products and ideas. Our portfolio of 30 iconic brands — including Cosmopolitan, Delish, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Men’s Health and Road & Track — reaches nearly 130 million people each month. Our teams combine trusted journalism and cultural storytelling with technology, data and commerce to create experiences that inform, inspire and entertain audiences across generations and around the globe. And together, we are shaping what’s next.

Key Responsibilities (What You Are Doing)

- Design and develop scalable backend services that process high volumes of advertising event and audience engagement data through reliable ETL pipelines.

- Build and maintain data ingestion, transformation, and enrichment systems that integrate with ad servers, supply-side platforms, data management platforms, and other third-party technologies.

- Develop APIs and internal tools that support ad delivery, campaign measurement, troubleshooting, and revenue reporting.

- Create and maintain front-end applications and operational tools using modern JavaScript frameworks such as React and Node.js.

- Implement scalable approaches to data storage, retrieval, normalization, and processing across cloud platforms including Google Cloud Platform and AWS.

- Collaborate with engineering, analytics, and ad operations teams to deliver accurate, privacy-compliant, and reliable data solutions for reporting and downstream applications.

- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize applications, APIs, data pipelines, and integrations to improve performance, scalability, and reliability.

- Contribute to automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software development practices while applying privacy-by-design principles across all systems.

Qualifications (What We’re Looking For)

- 3+ years of experience in full stack software development, with a strong focus on backend development, data engineering, or equivalent experience.

- Proficiency in Python, SQL, and JavaScript.

- Experience building applications with modern JavaScript frameworks such as React and Node.js.

- Hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining ETL workflows, data pipelines, APIs, and backend services.

- Experience working with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform or AWS, including serverless technologies.

- Familiarity with data warehouses such as BigQuery, Redshift, or similar technologies.

- Experience with digital advertising technologies, including Google Ad Manager, header bidding platforms, OpenRTB, or related ad tech ecosystems.