San Francisco
1 month ago

Job Overview

Job Type
FullTime
Pay
$120K – $160K • Offers Equity

Job description

Salary:
USD 120,000 - 160,000 per year
Location:
San Francisco, United States
Work arrangement:
On-site

Role Summary

  • Help shape core ad experiences and shape how people see ads across our ad network
  • Tackle meaningful challenges with increasing autonomy, crafting code that millions of users will experience
  • Take ownership of projects that matter, make critical technical decisions, and contribute your unique perspective to our product vision.
  • Work alongside passionate experts across design, product, and data to create the advertising experience in this new era

WANT TO STAND OUT?

We receive a high volume of applications, and we want to give everyone a fair chance to show us what they can do beyond their resume.

We’ve put together a short, optional take-home assessment. It’s not required to apply, but completing it is highly encouraged and will help us prioritize reviewing your application.

Complete the optional take-home assessment https://app.notion.com/p/Koah-Labs-Take-Home-OA-3c6cbbc66b0f8027bcbec3ff8ccd25d0

Responsibilities

You might thrive in this role if you

  • Enjoy proactively communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Are comfortable working across the stack, tackling new tasks out of your comfort zone, and can handle ambiguity
  • Work well in-person and enjoy fast feedback loops
  • Enjoy breaking down problems and testing your hypotheses
  • Get excited about end-to-end ownership within high agency environments

About the Company

Koah Labs is building the ad network to power the next generation of AI-native products. Our mission is to help publishers monetize and help advertisers reach the right audience — without compromising speed, UX, or privacy.

We’re a small, tight-knit team in San Francisco with backgrounds at X, Apple, Meta and early-stage startups. We’ve raised from top investors and are growing fast with real traction on both the publisher and advertiser sides of the marketplace.

Working at Koah means joining at the ground floor: you’ll ship code that shapes the company and the ecosystem we’re building. We move quickly, operate with high trust, and care deeply about craft.

Our Stack

  • Infra: Terraform, AWS, LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir), Tailscale, Cloudflare
  • Data: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, Kafka, Python
  • Core Application: Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript
  • SDKs: iOS, Android, Web, Flutter, React Native
Role:
Software Engineer, Early Career
Job Type:
FullTime

Company profile

Koah runs an ad network built for AI, describing itself as the monetization layer for AI apps. Its AI-native ads are powered by real-time intent matching rather than ad formats borrowed from the last era. The site demonstrates its ads in settings such as an AI assistant, a coding agent, an iMessage agent, and the traditional web.

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