Software Engineer - Full Stack - Data Marketplace

Overview

Live Ramp is the data collaboration platform of choice for the world’s most innovative companies. A groundbreaking leader in consumer privacy, data ethics, and foundational identity, Live Ramp is setting the new standard for building a connected customer view with unmatched clarity and context while protecting precious brand and consumer trust. Live Ramp offers complete flexibility to collaborate wherever data lives to support the widest range of data collaboration use cases—within organizations, between brands, and across its premier global network of top-quality partners.

Hundreds of global innovators, from iconic consumer brands and tech giants to banks, retailers, and healthcare leaders turn to Live Ramp to build enduring brand and business value by deepening customer engagement and loyalty, activating new partnerships, and maximizing the value of their first-party data while staying on the forefront of rapidly evolving compliance and privacy requirements.

The Data Marketplace team owns and operates Live Ramp's Data Marketplace. We develop applications that our customers use directly to acquire or monetize marketplace data, as well as APIs that enable integrations between Live Ramp's marketplace and other data platforms in the ecosystem.

Live Ramp seeks a Staff Full Stack Software Engineer to drive the growth of our data marketplace. This platform will empower Live Ramp customers and external partners with access to premium third-party data, enabling them to construct high-quality audiences for marketing and advertising initiatives.

• Set architectural vision for our agentic Data Marketplace; you’ll ensure our API design and system architecture are resilient, scalable, and set the standard for engineering excellence at Live Ramp.

• Foster collaboration across the engineering organization. You’ll proactively identify system-wide bottlenecks, manage complex dependencies, and help other teams resolve technical hurdles to keep our global priorities on track.

• Partner with Product leadership to shape our 12-month roadmap. By combining your deep understanding of our customers with your technical expertise, you’ll help refine our strategy and ensure we’re building the right products for the market.

• Foster high standards for code quality, testing, and performance across the department. You’ll evangelize best practices and introduce innovative testing approaches to ensure our platform remains the most trusted in the data ecosystem.

• Act as a role model and catalyst for growth. You’ll mentor engineers across the company, foster a positive and inclusive team culture, and represent Live Ramp’s technical brand through tech talks and industry outreach

Stay nimble and respond quickly to emerging opportunities.

Build the world's most valuable data marketplace with an emphasis on top-notch UX and powerful embeddability

You are a technical anchor who has transitioned from "executing tasks" to "owning outcomes." You thrive at the intersection of product vision and technical architecture, possessing the foresight to build systems that scale. As a Staff Engineer, you are a force multiplier—your value is measured not just by your own commits, but by the elevated performance and code quality of the entire team.

• 8+ years of hands-on development experience, thrives in Agile/Scrum environments.

• Deep technical intuition in API design and system integration. You build high-performance interfaces that connect complex data ecosystems, ensuring our marketplace is seamless for both human customers and autonomous AI agents.

• A "systems thinker" who can navigate a multi-language stack (Type Script, Ruby, Python, React) and leverage Redis and Sidekiq to manage concurrency and background execution at scale.

• You look beyond your own "to-do list" to champion improvements across the organization. You assess complexity at a glance and enjoy building prototypes to prove out innovative paths.

• You translate high-level business goals into technical reality and build consensus across diverse teams.

• You maintain a "production-first" mindset - prioritizing observability and resilience to build software that…