About Ovative Group:
Ovative Group is an independent, full-funnel media, measurement, and creative firm transforming how brands grow. We partner with leading names like American Eagle, Best Buy, Domino’s, The Home Depot, Polaris, and UnitedHealth Group to build smarter media and measurement programs that drive real, profitable growth.
We don’t just track performance—we redefine it. Powered by our proprietary intelligence platform, EMRge, and our holistic metric Enterprise Marketing Return (EMR), we help brands connect revenue, customer, and brand outcomes into one clear picture of success. Our approach to full-funnel strategy, buying, and measurement delivers results that matter—and it’s getting noticed. Our work has been recognized by Digiday, Google, USA Today, Inc. 5000, and Search Engine Land.
About the Role:
We are seeking a Sr. Full Stack Engineer to join our rapidly growing product and engineering development team.
In this role, you will take a leadership position within a cross-functional team responsible for creating, optimizing, and maintaining scalable software and data solutions to enhance performance, stability, and scalability. You will play a pivotal role in guiding the team and working closely with internal and client stakeholders throughout the entire software development lifecycle, from concept to deployment.
The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in iterative development practices, a strong focus on building testable solutions and both conceptual and pragmatic problem-solving skills. Your outstanding attention to detail and strong written and oral communication skills will enable you to work directly with business users, understanding their objectives and translating them into technical requirements. As a valuable team member, you will have the opportunity to mentor junior team members, contribute to innovative ideas, and drive the adoption of cutting-edge technologies within the team and foster your own professional growth.
Responsibilities of a Sr. Full Stack Engineer:
Develop and maintain an existing software product, onboarding new clients and maintaining existing clients.
Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of robust software solutions that marry together our ELT and ETL pipelines and client facing website
Lead, design, advise, and implement data engineering solutions that facilitate robust data vending and utilization for general usage across the organization
Lead efforts in identifying opportunities for automation with a focus on the operational stability of software applications and systems.
Engage directly with Product Managers and stakeholders to understand their business goals, gather requirements, and translate into detailed, actionable technical requirements.
Research, write and edit documentation and technical requirements, including software designs, evaluation plans, test results, technical manuals and formal recommendations and reports.
Evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance and customer impact to ensure we build the right solutions on that scale.
Mentor and level up the skills of your teammates through collaboration and by sharing your expertise.
Drive and ensure adherence to and advancement of software and product engineering best practices, including code quality, documentation, testing, security, deployment, and performance.
Troubleshoot complex software issues and provide effective solutions.
Provide guidance, mentorship, and contribute to architectural decisions, code reviews, and project direction.
Foster a culture of continuous learning to keep your team current with emerging technology and software engineering trends.
Drives and ensures adherence to SDLC and DevOps best practices, maintaining high standards of quality and security across all phases of development.
Requirements:
5+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
Highly proficient in one or more object-oriented languages (e.g., Python, Java, C#).
Highly proficient with data structures and design patterns.
Experience with testing best practices (e.g., unit, integration, smoke).
Experience building and deploying containerized application code.
Experience with React, Angular or Vue frameworks
Experience with cloud-based platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure).
Experience with DevOps & CI/CD.
Experience working with relational databases.
Preferred:
Experience with microservices.
Experience with security best practices and tools.
Experience with authentication strategies.
Experience working with big data.
Experience with iterative development.
Experience in the digital marketing and measurement space.
Experience with, or a strong demonstrable interest in, agentic AI technologies and their practical applications.
Pay Transparency:
At Ovative, we offer a transparent view into three core components of the total compensation package: Base Salary, Annual Bonus, and Benefits.
For our Manager positions, including the position of Sr. Full Stack Engineer, our compensation range is from $90,000 to $132,000 on an annualized basis, with the potential for an annual bonus of up to 20% of base salary.
Working at Ovative Group:
We provide strong, competitive, holistic benefits that understand the importance of your life inside and out of work.
At Ovative, culture isn’t a buzzword—it’s the reason we’ve been named a Top Workplace for ten years running. We lead with trust, transparency, and a commitment to doing the hard work others avoid.
We offer flexibility. You'll work from our Minneapolis, Chicago, or New York office on set days each week, and an option to work remote on others.
Our open floor plan reflects our open communication and flat structure—where interns collaborate with VPs, analysts partner with senior leaders, and our CEO engages with every team member. Together, we create an environment where smart, driven people can do their best work and support one another in the process.
We’re equally committed to inclusion and belonging. Ovative fosters a workplace where everyone can participate and thrive—regardless of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression or other protected class status. Our benefits and policies reflect that commitment, from inclusive medical leave coverage for same-sex spouses to equitable care and support for all families.
Benefits:
We strive to hire and retain the best talent by offering fair, competitive compensation, a meaningful bonus program, and excellent health coverage. When the company performs well, we all benefit.
Some tangible benefits and amenities we enjoy:
- Access to all office spaces in MSP, NYC, and CHI
- Frequent, paid travel to our Minneapolis headquarters for company events, team events, and in-person collaboration with teams
- Generous paid vacation policy
- 401k match program
- Top-notch health insurance options, inclusive of same sex partners
- Family formation benefits including reimbursement options for fertility, pregnancy, and parenting needs
- Monthly stipend for your mobile phone and data plan
- Sabbatical program
- Charitable giving via our time and a financial match program
- Shenanigan’s Day
Additional information can be found at Ovative's Career Page.
The details of the benefits are covered by applicable plan documents for group benefits and by company policies where a plan document does not apply.
Working at Ovative won’t be easy—but if you like challenging, hard work, driving results, and being surrounded by the best talent, it has the potential to be the most rewarding job you’ll ever have. If you think you can make us better, we want to hear from you!
EEO & Accessibility:
Ovative is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a respectful, inclusive workplace for all. Applicants receive consideration without regard to legally protected characteristics (e.g., color, religion, creed, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity/, gender expression, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, marital/ status, familial status, military or veteran’s status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, and any other status protected under applicable law).
We provide reasonable accommodations consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state law to qualified applicants and employees with disability, unless doing so would create an undue hardship.
If you need assistance or accommodation at any stage of the application or interview process due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected].
Application Details and Process:
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer on a full-time basis, without current or future need for visa sponsorship. Ovative is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification documentation upon hire.
Open Until Filled or Otherwise Withdrawn:
We encourage interested candidates to apply early. The position will remain open for at least 10 business days from the first day of posting. After this time, if the position has not been filled, the posting will remain open until the position is filled, or until the posting is otherwise closed or withdrawn for business reasons.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience
- Highly proficient in one or more object-oriented languages, such as Python, Java, or C#
- Highly proficient with data structures and design patterns
- Experience with unit, integration, and smoke testing best practices
- Experience building and deploying containerized application code
- Experience with React, Angular, or Vue
- Experience with cloud-based platforms, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Experience with DevOps and CI/CD
- Experience working with relational databases
- Experience with microservices
- Experience with security best practices and tools
- Experience with authentication strategies
- Experience working with big data
- Experience with iterative development
- Experience in digital marketing and measurement
- Experience with or strong demonstrable interest in agentic AI technologies and practical applications
What We Do
Ovative Group is a digital-first media and measurement firm that is transforming the measure of marketing success. Our team of marketing experts does the hard work to drive measurable performance and surpass expectations - fostering a trusting environment with each other and our clients. Our offerings include Paid and Owned Media Services, Omni-Channel Measurement, and Strategy Consulting. We combine our deep industry expertise and proven processes with an innovative new marketing metric, Enterprise Marketing Return, to measure and optimize marketing efforts across all channels.
