Software Engineer - UI (On Contract)
About the Role
The Software Developer role is a full-stack engineering position focused on building scalable, AI-enabled product capabilities within a mature technology ecosystem. With 3 -5 years of experience, you'll contribute to frontend development using TypeScript and Angular, backend services in Java, and collaborate across platform, data, and product teams to deliver reliable, high-quality solutions. Exposure to Python or Golang is valued, particularly for backend services, integrations, and AI-driven components.
This role emphasizes production-grade AI adoption, including Agentic AI workflows. You'll focus on applying AI where it meaningfully enhances product outcomes—improving user experience, automation, and decision intelligence—while adhering to enterprise standards around architecture, testing, and reliability. Strong communication, disciplined execution, and the ability to align AI-driven solutions with long-term product strategy are critical to success
What You'll Do
- 3 to 5 years' experience in development, whereas a minimum 3+ years' experience in UI development with the Angular 15 version and above exposure is preferred.
- 3+ years of design patterns, modular JavaScript, ES6, front end debugging techniques, front end build processes.
- Experience of 6+ months in backend API development is a plus. API development using NodeJS or other popular languages like Python.
- Hands-on experience in advanced JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks like AngularJS and NodeJS.
- Design, build, and maintain high-performance, scalable backend services using NodeJS/Python in Linux/UNIX environments.
- Proficiency in SQL and relational databases, including complex queries, performance optimization, schema design, indexing, and stored procedures.
- Knowledgeable in REST API development, patterns, and design concepts using NodeJS, Python, etc.
- Strong knowledge of Data Structures and OOPS concepts.
- UI and backend codebase Unit Testing experience is a must.
- Problem-solving skills and the ability to learn and adopt new technologies.
- Experienced in working and coordinating with cross-functional teams like Product, Marketing, UX, QA, Account management, and Backend platform teams in multiple US cities and Pune, India.
- Knowledgeable of the performance, scalability & security considerations for web applications.
- A passion for developing and maintaining high-quality code and enabling contributions from engineers across the team.
- Leverage AI-enabled development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and Cursor) for coding, debugging, documentation, and automation.
We'd Love for You to Have
- 3 - 5 years of Agile and Scrum methodologies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint demos, sprint retrospectives, estimation, and prioritization techniques.
- Implementation of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, documentation, build processes, automated testing, and operations.
- Finding ways to increase the throughput of the team with innovation & motivation.
- Strong inter-personal skills and a desire to work collaboratively.
- Experience in handling Engineering escalations from customers will be preferred.
- Able to communicate clearly and effectively with all levels.
- Strong operational and project management skills in a product development environment.
- Knowledge of large-scale deployment architectures, monitoring, and CI/CD.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted coding and automation workflows.
- Basic understanding of prompt engineering and LLM usage for productivity.
- Understanding of advanced AI concepts, including RAG, agentic AI, and model fine-tuning.
Qualification
- Should have a bachelor's degree in engineering (CS / IT) or equivalent degree from well-known Institutes / Universities.
Additional Information
Return to Office: PubMatic employees throughout the globe have returned to our offices via a hybrid work schedule (3 days "in office" and 2 days "working remotely") that is intended to maximize collaboration, innovation, and productivity among teams and across functions.
Benefits: Our benefits package includes the best of what leading organizations provide, such as paternity/maternity leave, healthcare insurance, and broadband reimbursement. As well, when we're back in the office, we all benefit from a kitchen loaded with healthy snacks and drinks and catered lunches, and much more!
Diversity and Inclusion: PubMatic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer; we don't just value diversity, we promote and celebrate it. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
About PubMatic
PubMatic is one of the world's leading scaled digital advertising platforms, offering more transparent advertising solutions to publishers, media buyers, commerce companies, and data owners, allowing them to harness the power and potential of the open internet to drive better business outcomes.
Founded in 2006 with the vision that data-driven decisioning would be the future of digital advertising, we enable content creators to run a more profitable advertising business, which in turn allows them to invest back into the multi-screen and multi-format content that consumers demand.
