Sr Software Engineer, Applications

Basis is a company that empowers agencies and brands with cutting-edge software for digital media operations. The Sr Software Engineer, Applications will be responsible for building new products, updating existing offerings, and leading projects while collaborating with team members to ensure high-quality standards and alignment with business goals.

Responsibilities:

• Leading projects spanning our entire tech stack while demonstrating and mentoring others on our best practices and high-quality standards
• Demonstrating strong collaboration through pull requests, demos, and working relationships. Give and receive feedback positively, identify risks and blockers as they arise
• Taking ownership over deliverables, quality, and support across your team's systems and components. Being accountable for driving projects from ideation through production
• Demonstrating a deep understanding of your team's business domain. Use your knowledge to identify risks and blockers during planning discussions. Ensure feasibility and alignment between business goals and technical implementation
• Bringing a positive attitude to work and embody Basis' core principles

Requirements:

• 5 years or more of professional software experience
• Experience planning and building production-level web applications using React and Ruby on Rails
• Experience leveraging modern development practices, including AI-assisted and agentic workflows
• Strong grasp of data modeling, SQL, query optimization, tuning for read/write performance and scalability
• Experience or willingness to learn Java
• Experience with entire development cycle of projects
• Knowledge and fluency in the tools used to build and maintain software: Git, Unix/Linux environments, and automated testing tools
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering or related field
• Enthusiastic growth-oriented mindset
• Excited by a fast-paced product development environment
• Passion for Ad-Tech