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The Role
Own and improve developer workflows across the software development lifecycle. Build and maintain developer tools, CI/CD pipelines, internal platforms, and automated testing solutions. Collaborate with engineers and leadership to identify friction, lead cross-functional initiatives, improve coding standards, and execute short- and long-term roadmaps. Develop reliable, scalable web applications and microservices using modern containerization and orchestration technologies.
Summary Generated by Built In
At Index Exchange, we’re reinventing how digital advertising works—at scale. As a global advertising supply-side platform, we empower the world’s leading media owners and marketers to thrive in a programmatic, privacy-first ecosystem.
We’re a proud industry pioneer with over 20 years of experience accelerating the ad technology evolution. Our proprietary tech is trusted by some of the world’s largest brands and media owners and plays a crucial role in keeping the internet open, accessible, and largely free.
We process more than 550 billion real-time auctions every day (in comparison, Google processes 8.5 billion searches per day) with ultra-low latency. Our platform is vertically integrated from servers to networks and runs primarily on our own metal and cloud infrastructure. This end-to-end infrastructure is designed to provide both stability and agility, enabling us to adapt quickly as the market evolves.
At the core of it all is our engineering-first culture. Our engineers tackle internet-scale problems across tight-knit, global teams. From moving petabytes of data and optimizing with AI to making real-time infrastructure decisions, Indexers have the agency and influence to shape the future of advertising. We move fast, build thoughtfully, and stay grounded in our core values.
About The Role:
A Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience takes ownership of the developer workflow, from early design to project delivery. They select or build the right tools to remove obstacles and reduce friction for other engineers. They collaborate with other engineers from the whole organization to understand their pain points and address them accordingly, while maintaining high standards of quality and rigorous engineering practices. They contribute to and execute roadmaps for both short term and long-term solutions to streamline the software development lifecycle.
Here’s What You’ll be Doing:
- Fostering a collaborative environment by bringing people together to come up with better designs and approaches to complex problems
- Collaborate with engineers and leadership to deeply understand developer workflows and systematically improve them
- Lead cross-functional projects that result in reliability, efficiency, and overall cost-savings wins
- Champion, own and implement improvements to coding standards and practices
- Design, build, and maintain developer tools
- Finding practical technological solutions
- Adopt and deploy off-the-shelf tools to reduce developer friction
- Analyzing and estimating work in an agile environment
- You’ll be working on cutting edge programmatic ad tech systems that handle hundreds of billions of transactions every day
Here's What You Need:
- Knowledge of Python and/or Go, with a focus on the surrounding ecosystem of tools, libraries, and best practices
- Experience developing CI/CD pipelines used by multiple teams and products (preferably GitLab specific experience)
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Comfortable presenting milestones, accomplishments, and general updates related to developer experience to the engineering organization
- Designing, developing, maintaining, and documenting internal tools for internal and external customers
- Broad experience across many technologies and being comfortable working in new areas
- You are team-oriented and embrace change.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to think differently, and an understanding that compromise, negotiation, and practicality are important qualities
- Understanding and hands on experience with all aspects of developing end-to-end web applications and microservices. This includes architecting, coding, debugging, optimizing/refactoring, automated testing, and deploying of APIs
- Modular, extensible, reusable, maintainable, performant, and testable code
- Automated testing platforms and unit tests
- General computer science / engineering knowledge: Algorithms, design patterns, software architecture, etc.
- Experience building, maintaining, and delivering short term and long-term roadmaps
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
- Company paid comprehensive health and life insurance plans
- Paid Time off and flexible work schedules
- Company contribution to Provident Fund
- Participation in our company Stock options plan
- Company paid Parental Leave
- Monthly internet stipend
- Quarterly Wellness allowance
- Community engagement opportunities and donation-matching program
- Volunteer paid day off
- Annual virtual company retreats and regular community-led team events
- A workplace that supports a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment – learn more here
Equal employment opportunity
At Index Exchange, we believe that successful products are built by teams just as diverse as the audience who uses them. As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunities. We celebrate diversity of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. Additionally, we realize that diversity is deeper than any status or classification—diversity is the human experience. For those who show grit, passion, and humility—Index will welcome you.
Accessibility for applicants with disabilities
Index Exchange welcomes and encourages individuals with disabilities to apply to work with us.
If you require an accommodation, please share the details of your request and any information how we can assist you with the hiring recruiter when they contact you. Index Exchange will make reasonable efforts to ensure accommodation requests are met throughout the recruitment process.
Index Everywhere, Index Anywhere
Our corporate headquarters are in Toronto, with major offices in New York, Montreal, Kitchener, London, San Francisco, and many other global cities. As a major global advertising exchange, we are committed to operating as a tightly knit global team and embracing and empowering talent wherever our colleagues may be.
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Skills Required
- Knowledge of Python and/or Go, including their surrounding ecosystems, tools, libraries, and best practices
- Experience developing CI/CD pipelines used by multiple teams and products
- GitLab-specific CI/CD experience
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience presenting milestones, accomplishments, and updates to engineering organizations
- Experience designing, developing, maintaining, and documenting internal tools
- Broad experience across multiple technologies and comfort working in new areas
- Experience developing end-to-end web applications and microservices, including architecture, coding, debugging, optimization, refactoring, testing, and API deployment
- Experience writing modular, extensible, reusable, maintainable, performant, and testable code
- Experience with automated testing platforms and unit testing
- General computer science and engineering knowledge, including algorithms, design patterns, and software architecture
- Experience building, maintaining, and delivering short-term and long-term roadmaps
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to apply practical solutions, compromise, and negotiation
- Team-oriented mindset and adaptability to change
Index Exchange Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Index Exchange and has not been reviewed or approved by Index Exchange.
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Affordable Benefits — Medical, dental, and vision coverage is described as fully paid for employees and often for dependents in the U.S., reducing out-of-pocket costs. While specifics vary by region, public materials consistently emphasize low-premium coverage.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is positioned as generous and inclusive, with birthing parents able to take extended fully paid leave and structured return‑to‑work support. Coverage also extends to non‑birthing and adoptive parents, with fertility benefits highlighted.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off combines substantial PTO with additional health days and personal obligation days, expanding rest and recovery options. Volunteer time off and the ability to work from another location for part of the year further broaden flexibility around time away.
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The Company
What We Do
Index Exchange is a global advertising supply-side platform enabling media owners to maximize the value of their content on any screen. As a trusted partner and ally, we connect leading experience makers with the world’s largest brands to ensure a quality experience for consumers. We’re a proud industry pioneer with over 20 years of experience accelerating the ad technology evolution. With our radically transparent business practices and dedication to total market efficiency, we’re committed to upholding the integrity of the programmatic ecosystem at large. Our global teams are dedicated to driving industry standards and building technology that delivers scale, efficiency, and long-term value for our customers and partners. In our workplace, we pride ourselves on fostering an environment of openness where everyone feels connected and supported - a place where you can be your best inside or outside of work.
Why Work With Us
When you join Index Exchange, you’ll be working at an engineering-first company. Our foundation is our technology platform and all of the Indexers who come together to improve, extend, and reinvent it. We invest heavily in building an organization that’s committed to DEI&B, our core values, and our vision of total market efficiency.
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