--- title: 'Senior Software Engineer at Pixability' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-pixability-boston-t7171benwzgw' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Senior Software Engineer at Pixability - **Company:** Pixability - **Location:** Boston, MA - **Posted:** 2026-05-13 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/pixability/jobs/7921611 ## Job description ## Who We Are Pixability is the leading AI-driven technology company that empowers the world’s largest brands and their agencies to maximize the value of their video advertising across YouTube and CTV. Leveraging its proprietary technology platform and data, Pixability reduces wasted impressions on video campaigns by identifying contextually relevant, brand suitable inventory and maximizes cost efficient outcomes. Pixability’s suite of solutions have been used by the top media agencies including Dentsu, Interpublic Group, Omnicom, Publicis, and GroupM, and brands such as KIND, McDonalds, Salesforce and Puma. For more information about Pixability, please visit [www.pixability.com](http://www.pixability.com/). Our Award-Winning Culture Our team is the heart of our culture. We value innovation, collaboration, and curiosity with a passion for getting things done. We strive to hire and cultivate the best employees and foster a culture of open communication and transparency. We are driven and hard-working, but also committed to having fun along the way with happy hours, team outings, and flexible paid time off. We’re proud to be in the top 3% of Google Partners worldwide, as well as being listed on the Inc. 5000 for nine consecutive years.consecutive years. ## About the Role We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our team in Boston. This role is ideal for an experienced full-stack or backend-oriented engineer who enjoys building scalable systems, collaborating across product and engineering, and contributing to high-impact platform capabilities. You will work closely with engineering, product, and data teams to design, build, and maintain services and user-facing functionality that support Pixability’s video advertising optimization platform. This is a hybrid role based in Boston, with an expectation to work from the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays. ## Responsibilities - Build, maintain, and improve backend services, APIs, and platform capabilities. - Contribute to frontend development where needed, particularly in React-based applications. - Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and data teams to deliver reliable, scalable features. - Work with cloud infrastructure, databases, and modern engineering tooling. - Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, and technical planning. - Write unit and integration tests to ensure quality, reliability, and maintainability. - Help improve engineering practices, code quality, and team delivery processes. - Support the product and engineering roadmap and contribute to squad-level technical decision-making. ## Requirements - 6+ years of professional software engineering experience. - Familiarity with AI/ML-powered product development, LLM integrations, recommendation systems, or workflow automation. - Strong backend development experience, preferably with Python. - Experience with data pipelines or large-scale systems. - Experience building production web applications, APIs, and distributed systems. - Frontend familiarity, ideally with React. - Solid understanding of relational databases such as MySQL and/or Snowflake. - Experience with AWS or similar cloud environments. - Familiarity with Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, and modern development workflows. - Strong software testing practices, including unit and integration testing. - Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, agile engineering environment. - Strong communication skills and a self-directed working style. - Ability to work from the Boston office two days per week, specifically Tuesdays and Thursdays. ## Nice to Have - Experience with ad tech, analytics platforms, or marketing technology. - Experience mentoring other engineers or leading technical initiatives. Pixability does not accept/pay fees for unsolicited resumes from third party agencies/vendors. The pay range for this role is $140,000 - 170,000 total compensation. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Pixability is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Pixability is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. ## About Pixability ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Pixability is an AI-driven technology and insights platform that helps the world's largest brands and agencies maximize the value of their YouTube and Connected TV (CTV) advertising. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C funded) - **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - **Founded**: 2008 (as cited by the company's careers page and Built In, though LinkedIn and other sources list 2010) - **Founders**: Bettina Hein (Co-Founder & former CEO) ## Core Business - Primary industry: Advertising Technology (AdTech) / Digital Media / Marketing - Target customers: B2B, specifically the world's largest brands and their agencies (Enterprise). - Mission or purpose statement: "Make every impression matter on YouTube and Connected TV." ## Products & Services - **Pixability360**: A unified platform built for the full YouTube ecosystem that combines paid, organic, and creator strategies for smarter planning and performance. - **Full-Serve YouTube**: A tech-powered managed service team that leverages Pixability's deep YouTube data set and proprietary GenAI targeting to drive business outcomes. - **Self-Serve YouTube**: A platform allowing advertisers to access Pixability's data and targeting capabilities directly. - **Channel Management**: Services to drive real business value out of a brand's YouTube channel. - **Data & Insights**: Proprietary AI-driven data platform that identifies contextually relevant, brand-suitable inventory and maximizes measurable, cost-efficient outcomes. They are the only YouTube partner certified for both Brand Suitability and Contextual Targeting and Content Insights. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available. - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of approximately **$30.0M** (estimated by LinkedIn/company data sources) and **$27.5M** in total funding. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: PJC (lead investor in Series B), with additional funding from other venture partners. They are an official YouTube Measurement Program (YTMP) partner. - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew by **4.0% YoY** to 78 employees. They have a global presence with offices in the US (Boston HQ, New York), UK, Canada, and Uruguay. Digiday has called them the "Best Buy-Side Programmatic Platform." ## Competitive Advantages - **Exclusive YouTube Partnership**: The only company certified by YouTube for both Brand Suitability and Contextual Targeting and Content Insights, giving them unique access and data. - **Proprietary AI & Data**: Their GenAI targeting and deep YouTube dataset provide a specific moat that is difficult for general AdTech platforms to replicate. - **Scale**: They have powered more YouTube campaigns than any platform outside of Google itself, indicating deep market penetration and trust. ## Strategic Focus - **Unified Ecosystem**: Moving toward a 360-degree view of YouTube with the launch of Pixability360, which unifies paid, organic, and creator strategies. - **Outcome-Based Advertising**: Shifting the narrative from just "brand suitability" to driving "measurable, cost-efficient business outcomes" for advertisers. - **AI Innovation**: Continued investment in proprietary GenAI targeting to stay ahead of the curve in programmatic advertising. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: The company emphasizes a culture built on "Honesty, Integrity & Trust," "Collaboration," "Data Driven Innovation," and being "Inclusive." They have active sub-committees for DE&I, Mindfulness & Wellbeing, and community giving (PixGivesBack). - **Work Model**: Hybrid workspace. Employees in Boston are expected to be in-office **2 days a week**. WeWork access is provided in large metro areas like NY, CA, and UK. - **Notable Perks**: Medical, dental & vision insurance, flexible time-off, parental leave, technology stipend, 401(k), learning & development programs, and team events. - **Engineering Culture**: The technology department is made up of 30% females, highlighting a commitment to diversity in engineering. The company prides itself on being "fast and focused," with a focus on experimentation and data-driven innovation. - **Award-Winning**: Recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in Boston with an award-winning culture. ## Sources 1. [pixability.com](https://www.pixability.com/) 2. [pixability.com/careers-culture](https://www.pixability.com/careers-culture/) 3. [pixability.com/team](https://www.pixability.com/team/) 4. [linkedin.com/company/pixability](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pixability) 5. 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