Senior Software Engineer, Creative Ads

WHO WE ARE

Headquartered in sunny Austin, TX with a growing footprint in the heart of NYC, KERV.ai is an award-winning, boundary-pushing company that's transforming how content and commerce converge in media.

As the leader in AI-powered video analysis and monetization, our patented technology breaks video down frame by frame, making every object, product, or moment instantly interactive, measurable, and shoppable. We serve as the connective tissue between creative, commerce, and data, helping the world’s top brands and publishers turn video into a truly dynamic and rewarding experience for their audiences.

, we’re not just redefining how people engage with media. We’re building the future of it. If you’re looking to work at the intersection of innovation, storytelling, and smart technology with a team that’s shaping what’s next in media, we’d love to meet you.

As a Software Engineer on KERV’s Creative Ads team, you’ll be a key contributor building the visual products our clients and audiences actually see. This is a small, focused team responsible for our dynamic video generation pipeline, a video template studio, and the interactive overlay that powers ad experiences on top of video content (including VPAID-based ad products).

What makes this role unique is the blend: one day you’re optimizing AWS Step Functions and FFmpeg-powered Lambda layers that generate video at scale, and the next you’re iterating on a React-based studio interface alongside a designer. You’ll work closely with product and creative teams — not just fulfilling client requests, but proactively A/B testing new ad formats and pushing the boundaries of what our products can do.

You’ll also be helping establish this team from the ground up — shaping CI/CD practices, building out observability, and hardening production systems as the team matures.

If you thrive at the intersection of creative tooling, cloud infrastructure, and a fast iteration cycle with a team that ships work people can see — this is for you.

• Technologies you will use:
  JavaScript/Type Script (Node.js, React, Svelte), HTML/CSS/SCSS, AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, S3, Media Convert), Serverless Framework, FFmpeg, Puppeteer, MySQL, Git
• Build and maintain our dynamic video generation pipeline — a multi-stage, serverless orchestration system on AWS that produces video creatives at scale
• Develop and improve our video template studio and interactive overlay applications using modern frontend frameworks (React, Svelte)
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and creative teams to translate ad concepts into shippable features
• Proactively design and run A/B tests on ad formats, creative treatments, and user experiences to drive measurable performance improvements
• Help harden production systems: improve observability (Cloud Watch, logging), error handling, CI/CD pipelines, and cost/performance tuning across the video pipeline
• Contribute to architectural decisions, weighing long-term maintainability against short-term delivery needs
• Write clean, well-tested code across a diverse codebase — from serverless pipeline orchestration to client-facing ad experiences where visual quality and stability are immediately visible
• Participate in team code reviews, sharing knowledge and learning from others
• Participate in sprint planning, ensuring that realistic plans are set forth and delivered
• Communicate effectively within the engineering team and with non-technical teams
• Have the discipline to shift between establishing new features and maintaining legacy features based on the needs of the business

• 3–7+ years of professional experience developing web-based applications
• Strong experience with JavaScript/Type Script across both frontend and backend
• Professional experience with React; additional experience with Svelte is a plus
• Experience with Node.js in production environments
• Working knowledge of AWS services, particularly Lambda, S3, and Step Functions — or comparable cloud infrastructure experience
• Comfort working across the stack, from UI components to serverless backend services
• Ownership mindset — you can take responsibility for a slice of…