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# Lead Software Engineer,  Ads (Remote) at Jane Technologies

- **Company:** Jane Technologies
- **Location:** Santa Cruz, CA
- **Compensation:** $190k–$222k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/iheartjane/547d9f3d-9fe7-4e5b-a7e3-25bca4796df4

## Job description

Company Overview: Jane Technologies is an MIT-founded eCommerce company in the cannabis industry experiencing rapid growth. We believe in cannabis's ability to bring well-being, health, and love to the world, and our mission is to bring confidence to the online cannabis shopping experience. Our platform connects consumers with local dispensaries and brands, creating a seamless shopping experience and delivering industry-leading insights to our retail, brand, and integration partners.

Dispensaries use Jane to sell cannabis products compliantly and efficiently. Brands plug into the platform to reach shoppers via personalized sponsored content. Shoppers engage with Jane’s online menus to make purchasing decisions via rich product content and verified reviews. These services come together to form a tightly integrated ecosystem - creating diversified revenue streams for Jane and a win-win-win equation for the industry.

Learn about our team, our culture, and if Jane is the right fit for you. Check out our company at: https://www.iheartjane.com/team#careers

## What You Will Do

- Lead a team of software engineers building scalable services, APIs, and SDKs that power our digital merchandising platform.
- Work cross-functionally with other technical leads to establish shared prioritization frameworks and ensure delivery stays aligned with roadmap goals
- Drive architecture and design decisions for the ads platform, setting technical direction and building consensus across the team in conjunction with staff engineers
- Work with Product Managers to make Jane’s advertising product offerings sound, robust and easy to use.
- Work with Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers to collect data, analyze data, and use data to improve advertising through iterations.
- Own and evolve engineering standards for the team, including code quality, review culture, and technical process
- Perform and participate in design reviews and code reviews.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks through delegation.
- Manage and grow a team of 3-4 engineers through regular 1:1s, goal-setting, and performance feedback
- Partner with engineering leadership on hiring: help define roles, evaluate candidates, and assess technical leveling
- Identify gaps in team capability or process and propose concrete improvements. You don't wait to be asked.

## Qualifications

- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience in a product-centered team.
- 2+ years in a lead or people-management role, with a track record of shipping meaningful work through a team, not just as an individual contributor,
- Demonstrates lead-level ownership: navigates ambiguity with the team and leadership. Proactively moves work forward against business goals.
- Experience with AdTech systems, ideally retail media, sponsored listings, or marketplace advertising. Hands-on with one or more of: ad serving and real-time decisioning, campaign pacing and budgeting, or attribution and measurement. You understand the constraints that make AdTech distinct: low-latency decisioning at scale, accurate pacing and billing, and closing the loop from impression to conversion.
- Systems-level problem solver: comfortable navigating ambiguous, high-complexity challenges across distributed systems and infrastructure.
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and code design principles.
- Proficiency in at least one system language (Go preferred, Java, etc.) with a demonstrated ability to pick up new languages and adapt to a rapidly evolving stack.
- Database fluency: familiar with relational, columnar, and document-based databases with a strong sense of their respective strengths and ideal use cases.
- Strong technical communication: expresses ideas clearly through well-crafted code, written documentation, and team communication with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Collaborative by nature: as eager to mentor and share knowledge as to learn from others, with a genuine passion for craft and how great software gets built.
- Experience proposing, provisioning and testing infrastructure with cloud ops: Terraform (preferred), Cloudformation, etc.

Jane Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. EOE, including disability/vets.

Jane Technologies, Inc. participates in the federal government’s E-Verify program, which confirms employment authorization of all newly hired employees in conjunction with the Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification. E-Verify is not used as a tool to pre-screen candidates. For up-to-date information on E-Verify, go to www.uscis.gov and click on 'E-Verify' located near the bottom of the page.

## About Jane Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Jane Technologies provides a unified commerce infrastructure platform for the cannabis industry, powering ecommerce, point of sale, payments, analytics, and advertising for dispensaries and brands.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: Santa Cruz, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed on major sources

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Cannabis Technology / Software Development
- Target customers: B2B — dispensaries, retailers, and brands in the cannabis industry (from small shops to enterprise-level operations)
- Mission or purpose statement: To create the operating system for the next generation of commerce, standardizing how cannabis products are discovered, sold, and measured.

## Products & Services
- **[Jane Ecommerce Platform]**: A digital storefront and menu system for dispensaries, enabling real-time product listings, ordering, and inventory management. (SaaS)
- **[Jane Roots (Headless eCommerce)]**: A fully-customizable, API-driven ecommerce solution for retailers who want a bespoke front-end experience built on Jane’s backend. (API / SaaS)
- **[Jane Payments]**: Integrated payment processing for cannabis transactions. (Service)
- **[Jane Analytics]**: Data and business intelligence tools for retailers and brands to track sales, customer behavior, and inventory performance. (SaaS)
- **[Jane Advertising / Ads Platform]**: A native advertising network allowing brands to sponsor products and placements within the Jane network. (AdTech / SaaS)
- **[Jane AI Budtender]**: An AI-powered recommendation engine that asks shoppers questions and suggests products from live inventory, shown to increase conversion by 16% and average order value by 8% in a controlled test. (AI / SaaS)
- **[Jane Gold (Rewards Program)]**: A first-of-its-kind cash-back rewards program for the cannabis industry, launched in April 2024. (Service)
- **[Point of Sale (POS) & Kiosk]**: On-premise hardware/software solutions for in-store transactions. (Hardware / SaaS)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (Private company)
- **Key Metric**: $128.5M in total funding raised across 3 rounds (Series A, B, C).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Gotham Green Partners, Delta Emerald Ventures, Third Point Ventures, L2 Ventures, Artemis Growth Partners, Honor Ventures (led $100M Series C in 2021).
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - Processes transactions for over 2,500 dispensaries and brands across North America.
    - Described as the "largest digital commerce network in cannabis."
    - Actively developing and deploying AI features (AI Budtender) and new products (Rewards program).
    - Holds a broad patent portfolio (14 patents filed) covering data management, payment systems, and transaction processing.
    - Recognized with multiple national innovation awards.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Network Effects**: The largest digital commerce network in cannabis creates a powerful moat — as more retailers join, the platform becomes more valuable to brands and consumers.
- **Comprehensive Platform**: Offers a full-stack suite (ecommerce, POS, payments, ads, analytics, loyalty) making it a one-stop shop for retailers, increasing switching costs.
- **Open Data Protocol & Universal Product Catalog**: Standardizes how products are discovered and sold across the industry, a unique infrastructure play.
- **Patent Portfolio**: 14 granted patents provide legal defensibility around core technology, particularly in transaction processing and data management.
- **Strong AI Integration**: Early and successful deployment of AI (Budtender) with measurable ROI for customers, giving a lead over competitors.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-First Product Development**: Deepening AI capabilities (like the AI Budtender) to drive retailer conversions and personalize the customer experience.
- **Expanding the Retailer Network**: Continuing to onboard new dispensaries and brands, particularly larger enterprise accounts, to strengthen network effects.
- **Monetization Through Ads & Loyalty**: Growing higher-margin revenue streams from the advertising platform (Ads) and the new rewards program (Jane Gold).
- **International Expansion**: With employees already in Canada, Portugal, Italy, and Malta, there is a clear signal of intent to serve non-US cannabis markets.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Ratings**: Highly rated by employees (4.6/5 on employer review sites), with particularly strong scores for Work-Life Balance (4.7) and Culture (4.7).
- **Work Policy**: Offers a remote work program; roles like "Lead Software Engineer, Ads" are explicitly listed as Remote. The HQ in Santa Cruz is office-based for local staff.
- **Tech Stack**: Modern and varied stack including Ruby, Python, JavaScript/React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Databricks, Docker, Terraform, and Kubernetes. Engineers will work with modern tools.
- **Growth Trajectory**: As a Series C company with a strong market position, Jane offers the stability of an established product with the excitement and impact of a growth-stage company.
- **Mission-Driven**: Working at the intersection of technology and the rapidly evolving, regulated cannabis industry offers a unique opportunity to shape a nascent market.

## Sources
1. [Lever.co - Jane Technologies Careers Page](https://jobs.lever.co/iheartjane)
2. [LinkedIn - Jane Technologies](https://linkedin.com/company/jane-technologies-inc)
3. [Built In - Jane Technologies Profile](https://builtin.com/company/jane-technologies)
4. [CB Insights - Jane Technologies](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/jane-technologies)
5. [iheartjane.com - Company Team Page](https://www.iheartjane.com/team)
6. [PR Newswire - Jane Gold Rewards Launch](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jane-technologies-launches-first-of-its-kind-rewards-program-for-the-cannabis-industry-302117054.html)
7. [PR Newswire - Jane AI in Cannabis Industry](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jane-leads-the-way-for-ai-in-the-cannabis-industry-302284644.html)

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