Senior and Staff Software Engineers

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
We're looking for Senior and Staff-level software engineers to join teams in our Channels and Exchange Products divisions in Toronto. These are primarily back-end teams — see below for their mandates and impact on Index Exchange's business. Ultimate team fit will depend on the experience that an individual candidate is bringing to Index, their interests, and the needs of our different teams.

Channels

The Channels division supports Index Exchange's customers across all advertising domains. We lead innovation in streaming TV by driving efficiency and developing tools that enhance the viewer experience while continuing to advance Web and Mobile App channels. Our team collaborates with industry groups to establish improved standards, generates actionable insights for customers, and delivers optimal signals to both publishers and advertisers. This work is underpinned by the deep technical expertise required to operate at true internet scale. Led by Luke Corrigall, Director of Engineering.

Exchange Products

The Exchange Products division builds the features that power our Exchange and drive real revenue. We're shaping the next generation of our platform, enabling external partners to grow their businesses by integrating inventory directly or extending our Exchange through our tech stack. Our team tackles challenging scalability problems and develops cutting-edge products—all while creating tangible value for our partners. Led by Dennis Lokkers, Director of Engineering.

Here's What You'll Be Doing

• You'll be working on cutting edge programmatic ad tech systems that handle hundreds of billions of transactions every day
• The systems and tools you'll be working on allow our partners to easily interact with our exchange including work on Open-Source projects
• Designing, writing, and testing robust and reliable code
• Working closely with product to deeply understand the domain and identify opportunities for improvements
• Finding practical technological solutions
• Analyzing and estimating work in an agile environment
• Fostering a collaborative environment by bringing people together to come up with better designs and approaches to complex problems
• Suggest, promote and implement improvements to coding standards and practices

Here's What You Need

• Strong software engineering skills, including proficiency in high-throughput programming languages such as Golang, Java, C#
• Demonstrable expertise in complex back-end systems including experience in designing, developing and testing high quality services
• Excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to think differently, and an understanding that compromise, negotiation and practicality are important qualities
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
• Staff level: Extensive experience leading impactful, cross-team technical projects from start to finish

Why You'll Love Working Here

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents
• Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules
• Competitive retirement matching plans
• Equity packages
• Generous parental leave available to birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents
• Annual well-being allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities
• Commuter benefits and discounts, where available
• Employee assistance program
• Mental health first aid program that provides an in-the-moment point of contact and reassurance
• One day of volunteer time off per year and a donation-matching program
• Bi-weekly town halls and regular community-led team events
• Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning
• 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.