AI-powered ad platform managing creative, media, and optimization across Facebook, Google, TikTok, and Snap
Smartly operates an end-to-end advertising platform that handles creative generation, media buying, and campaign optimization at scale—700+ brands, $5B in annual ad spend, and 800B+ impressions annually. The stack reflects dual engineering demands: PyTorch/TensorFlow for ML-driven creative and budget optimization, plus Kubernetes/Cassandra for high-throughput ad serving and reporting. Active hiring across support and engineering (nearly 50 roles combined) paired with projects around rendering platforms, AI workflows, and CTV go-to-market suggests aggressive scaling of both customer success and platform automation.
Notable leadership hires: Head of IT, Technical Art Director, Regional Client Lead, Head of Sales
Smartly is an advertising platform for mid-market to enterprise brands managing campaigns across Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. The product integrates three layers: a creative generation engine (leveraging PyTorch/TensorFlow for AI-driven asset optimization), a media-buying and budget-allocation layer (DV360 and proprietary optimization), and a measurement and reporting system (built on PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and custom analytics). The company operates from Helsinki with engineering, sales, support, and product distributed across eight countries, including the UK, Finland, Germany, the US, and others. Internally, the team tracks retention and platform adoption as key challenges, alongside scaling creative production and accelerating time-to-value for new customers.
Smartly uses AWS and GCP for cloud infrastructure, Python and C++ for backend services, and PyTorch/TensorFlow for machine learning. The platform runs on Kubernetes with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Cassandra for data storage, and React/TypeScript for frontend.
Smartly manages ad campaigns on Facebook, Google Ads, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. The platform also uses DV360 for programmatic buying and supports feed-based and multi-product ad formats.
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