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Mumbai · On-site · 10-13 Yrs · Nov 5
Internet & Web Services · 201 to 500 Employees · Chicago, US
Affinity is a leading global AdTech company, empowering publishers to maximize revenue and enabling advertisers to reach their ideal audiences. Led by our in-house tech, product, and engineering teams, we unlock new market opportunities across the digital ecosystem—venturing beyond the walled gardens to deliver innovative, privacy-friendly ad solutions. At Affinity, we are building technologies to help reshape the future of digital advertising. Affinity offers a broad array of AdTech solutions that cater to the new media across the US, UK, EU, India, Indonesia, and China: VEVE, SitePlug, mCanvas, Opinary, NucleusLinks, and Yield Solutions These innovative solutions fuel Affinity to drive value across the purchase funnel for the advertiser and publisher ecosystem. Headquartered in Chicago, along with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Delhi, and Mumbai, Affinity is privately held with almost 500 experts operating across the globe. For more information, please visit www.affinity.com
Hiring: Engineering
What employees say
+ No pros only cons I don't understand how tenurity rate of this company is 2.8 years average
− I don't think where people are going multiple Gossip sessions, Abusive language in meetings and stand-up everyday via director, no sense of responsibility HR and directors will re
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Interview experience · SDE 3
The interview was scheduled for 3:00 p.m. and was an on-site first-round interview. However, the interviewer arrived and started the interview around 3:30 p.m., which was a 30-minute delay and, in my view, felt unprofess
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Overview
Affinity is pioneering new frontiers in AdTech by building privacy-first advertising infrastructure that helps publishers maximize monetization and enables advertisers to reach the right audiences beyond walled gardens.
Responsibilities
- We are looking for a highly experienced Director – Technology (Full Stack) to lead the architecture, development, scalability, and modernization of Affinity’s AdTech and publisher technology platforms.
- This role requires strong expertise across frontend, backend, cloud infrastructure, scalable distributed systems, and high-performance engineering environments. The ideal candidate should bring hands-on technical depth along with strong engineering leadership capabilities to drive platform innovation and execution at scale.
- The role will involve close collaboration with Product, Data Science, Ad Operations, and Business teams to build reliable, scalable, and future-ready advertising technology products.
- Define and drive the technology roadmap for scalable Full Stack and platform engineering initiatives.
- Lead architectural design decisions across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
- Build scalable, low-latency, high-availability applications handling large traffic volumes and real-time data processing.
- Ensure engineering best practices around scalability, security, observability, maintainability, and performance optimization.
- Lead development across frontend and backend systems using modern engineering frameworks and technologies.
- Oversee scalable UI architecture using React.js / modern JavaScript frameworks.
- Drive backend and platform engineering using Java, Python, PHP, Golang, or Node.js ecosystems.
- Design and optimize APIs, caching layers, databases, and messaging systems.
- Collaborate with engineering teams on reusable component architecture and platform standardization.
- Champion cloud-native architecture using GCP / AWS environments.
- Drive distributed systems engineering, scalability improvements, and infrastructure optimization.
- Ensure platform reliability, deployment automation, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring systems.
- Optimize performance for high-throughput and low-latency applications.
- Work on large-scale AdTech / MarTech / Publisher platforms.
- Collaborate on audience systems, targeting engines, campaign workflows, monetization systems, and analytics platforms.
- Partner with Product and Data teams on AI/ML-driven optimization initiatives.
- Ensure scalable data pipelines and analytics-driven engineering decisions.
- Mentor and scale high-performing engineering teams.
- Work closely with Product, Business, Sales, and Operations teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Participate in leadership discussions involving platform strategy, engineering scalability, and product innovation.
- Drive engineering culture, ownership, and execution excellence across teams.
Qualifications
- 10–15+ years of experience in software engineering with strong Full Stack development exposure.
- 4–6+ years of experience in engineering leadership / team management roles.
- Strong experience in scalable product engineering environments, preferably within AdTech, MarTech, MediaTech, SaaS, or high-scale consumer technology ecosystems.
- Deep expertise in frontend technologies including:
- React.js
- JavaScript (ES6+)
- HTML5 / CSS3
- AJAX
- Modern frontend architecture
- Strong backend engineering expertise in:
- Java
- Python
- PHP
- Golang / Node.js (good to have)
- Strong understanding of:
- Distributed Systems
- System Design
- APIs & Microservices
- Databases & Caching
- Messaging Systems
- Scalability & Performance Tuning
- Experience with:
- MySQL / PostgreSQL
- Redis / MongoDB
- Kafka / RabbitMQ
- GCP / AWS Cloud Platforms
- CI/CD & DevOps practices
- Proven experience building scalable, low-latency, high-throughput applications.
- Exposure to DSP, DMP, SSP, RTB, Publisher Monetization, or Ad Serving platforms.
- Experience with AI/ML-driven systems and real-time analytics.
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Last updated 12 November 2026
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