About the Role
We are looking for a Full Stack Developer who is passionate about building scalable, high-quality web applications. You will be responsible for developing both front-end and back-end components, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and delivering seamless user experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain web applications across front-end and back-end systems
• Design, build, and optimize scalable APIs and databases
• Collaborate with product, design, and other stakeholders to define and implement new features
• Ensure application performance, quality, and responsiveness
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role
• Strong proficiency in front-end technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, or Angular)
• Experience with back-end languages (e.g., Node.js, Python, Java, or PHP)
• Familiarity with databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and web services
• Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git)
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its App of the Day.

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. 

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. 

What You’ll Do

• Actively ship production code to the web products
• Work closely with your dedicated product team
• Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap
• Have the opportunity to work on new and exciting features that will impact millions of lives

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Experience. You've built and ship products that have scaled to thousands or millions of users
• Customer obsession. You are passionate about the field and have the desire to build high quality product that serves customer needs
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
• Tech Stack: Vanilla JS, ReactJS, Redux, Firebase, Typescript

What We Offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the culture
• An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle
• A hands-off approach so you can focus and do your best work
• The opportunity to make an impact in a transformative industry
• A competitive salary, a collegiate atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture

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Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

About Media Futures Group (MFG)

Google has consolidated its media agency partnership into WPP Media, building on the world class digital work that Essence has delivered for Google for over 17 years. Media Futures Group (MFG) is a bespoke team that delivers on our commitment to Google for a more strategic, creative and integrated media approach established to drive better business results.

The MFG team is made up of best in class digital, offline, and integrated media experts who work together to enhance media’s contribution to Google’s business. MFG is powered by EssenceMediacom and other constituent parts of GroupM around the world.

The Role

The Media Activation Manager plays a critical role within the Media Activation (Programmatic) team at MFG, responsible for the flawless execution and optimization of programmatic and biddables campaigns for Google focused largely on display and video channels. This role is primarily focused on performance campaigns and will leverage a combination of real-time and guaranteed buying across both open exchange and/or direct publishers as needed. This role demands a deep understanding of programmatic platforms, a data-driven approach to optimization, and strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.

Role responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Directly or indirectly (via management) supports 1-3 markets/accounts
• Able to own up to 3 campaigns E2E at any one time while assisting on others as needed
• ~60% time allocated to individual campaign assignments, ~40% time allocated to work outside of individual campaigns (e.g. management tasks, team projects, training others)
• Delivers media plans, wrap-ups, and milestone outputs utilizing established best practices against client communication strategy according to timelines
• Able to launch campaigns on time/does not contribute to gating issues, in compliance with platform (DSP/DMP) best practices (naming conventions, IO/LI)
• Flawless delivery of all campaigns (launch, pacing, performance goals)
• Meets campaign objectives by EOQ (e,g, client KPIs, Pacing), and/or flags potential performanceissues in a timely manner
• Confident and steady in optimization and improvement of campaign performance (not just delivery). 
• Strong knowledge of media planning fundamentals e.g. reach, frequency, channels, formats
• Strong knowledge of tactical essentials such as inventory and data sources
• Excellent tracking of sub-campaign level details including but not limited to pacing, performance, etc.
• Strong understanding of adjacent and/or connected disciplines (e.g. Data Strategy, Analytics, AdOps, Experience) and relationship with Programmatic 
• Strong knowledge of the  programmatic/ad-tech ecosystem (publishers, data, platform, etc.)
• Strong grasp of overall campaign lifecycle and the role programmatic plays within it
• Communicates successes, failures, and escalations to line manager in a timely manner
• Directly responsible for managing 1 junior team member assuming staffing
• Escalation point for campaign level issues

Desired background experience:

Required

• 3-4 years work experience on the programmatic/ad-tech buy-side (e.g. agency, trading desk, DSP company)
• Excellent proficiency planning and deploying campaigns using enterprise level DSPs (e.g. DV360, The Trade Desk, MediaMath)
• Experience planning and executing campaigns delivering against both Brand and Direct Response objectives
• Experience deploying campaigns across multiple environments/devices via both direct and open buying leveraging audience and/or contextual data as needed
• High attention to detail, and good organizational skills, with an understanding of optimization levers & testing approaches across programmatic platforms
• Experience directly managing at least one direct report with demonstrable skills in guiding his/her professional development
• Highly developed interpersonal, team building and relationship management skills
• Strong analytical skills and a natural affinity for numbers is key; You must be able to analyze raw data, draw insights and develop actionable recommendations as needed
• Strong organization and time management skills. Able to prioritize recurring deliverables against ad hoc requests. Mindful of personal deliverables and projects without needing reminding from line manager
• Up-to-date knowledge on the current state of programmatic/ad/mar-tech with a POV on future developments
• A passion for everything digital, with an active interest and understanding of digital marketing/advertising industry trends

Desirable

• Strong Google stack experience
• Experience working with Data Management Platforms (DMPs) or equivalent data organisation/deployment tool/platform
• Familiar with feed-based creative setups using Creative Management Platforms (CMPs)
• Experience working with data science teams and good grasp of campaign analytics fundamentals (e.g. control/exposed segmentation, survey and panel based measurement, regression analysis)
• Experience with Google Analytics (plus certification)
• Experience with running campaigns across multiple countries / languages
• Familiarity with industry-relevant programming languages (e.g. HTML, Javascript, SQL, Python, R)

What you can expect from MFG

MFG’s mission is to make advertising more valuable to the world. We do this by employing the world’s very best talent to solve some of the toughest challenges of today’s digital marketing landscape. It’s important that we hire people whose values reflect those of our own: genuine, results-focused, daring and insightful. As an MFG employee, we promise you a workplace that invests in your career, cares for you and is fun and engaging. We believe these factors create a workplace where you can be yourself and do amazing work.