Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer

Gum Gum is a contextual-first, global digital advertising platform that uses advanced AI technology to serve captivating creative ads that drive consumer attention, without the use of personal data. At Gum Gum, we don’t need to know who you are to deliver relevant and engaging ads that align with your active frame of mind. We believe that a digital advertising industry based on context rather than personal data builds a more equitable and less invasive future for the internet and is better for consumers, publishers and advertisers alike.

Our blueprint for the future, The Mindset Matrix™, combines the power of context and creative in digital advertising to deliver superior attention and drive consumer action without sacrificing personal data.

To be a part of this next phase of digital advertising that prioritizes data privacy, please visit

Gum Gum is a global technology and media company specializing in contextual intelligence. For over a decade, we have applied our proven machine learning expertise to extract value from digital content for the advertising industry. The company’s contextual advertising engine, Verity™, comprehends the meaning of text, images and video online, allowing marketers to safely and precisely place ads where people are most engaged.

Combining that contextual targeting and brand safety intelligence with proprietary high-impact ad formats, Gum Gum’s advertising solutions deliver industry leading efficiency, accuracy and performance.

A Software Engineer I on the Advertising Applications team at Gum Gum builds and maintains a variety of web applications used by both internal and external users. This role is for a full-stack engineer who will work on both the frontend and backend, participating in a team that prioritizes skill sharing and learning. They will make an impact by developing applications used every day across the company.

This role will have a collaborative perspective, supporting the implementation of tasks by pairing with other engineers, product managers, and QA to build key sections of various applications. An engineer in this role is familiar with and works in technologies such as React, Redux, Type Script, and Java/Spring on the Backend for the API.

Gum Gum fosters a flexible work environment, offering Gum Gummers the ability to work either in‑office or remotely/from home. However, for occasional in‑person collaboration, we kindly ask that this position be located within a ‘commutable’ distance to our office.

• Design, develop, and maintain new features and improvements for a variety of React web applications
• Develop backend functionality with Java/Spring, including extending and maintaining APIs
• Owns scoped individual tasks and tasks with project-level impact with minimal guidance
• Support more senior engineers with projects with implementation of tasks ranging from inception to production release (and beyond)
• Collaborate with other teams such as Dev Ops, Designers, and Product to optimize our applications and brainstorm creative solutions together
• Implement tests and ensure proper functionality and graceful degradation on multiple browsers
• Seeks to improve and learn best practices from code reviews and peer feedback
• Help troubleshoot user-reported issues from the team’s applications with support
• Seeks to understand the advertising industry, as required to be able to make decisions about our technical approach and provide our users with more efficient applications
• Create new web applications from the ground up if needed
• May share knowledge by contributing to our technical blog and giving presentations/talks with guidance

• Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field is a plus
• 1-2 years Software Engineer experience, including Java Script
• Candidate has shipped code to production
• 1 years experience with React
• 1 years experience with Java
• Core understanding of JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Use of Git and command-line tools
• Comfortable using browser developer tools and build tools such as Webpack or build
• Understanding of responsive design concepts and cross-browser compatibility
• Understanding of deployment pipeline and…