Your New Role:

The Manager, Engineering reports to the Sr Director Application engineering and is accountable for team management and designing and delivering scalable, cloud-native solutions that power our advertising technology stack.

Your Role Accountabilities:

Technical Leadership & Strategy

Define and drive the technical vision and engineering roadmap for advertising platforms, ensuring alignment with business goals, scalability, reliability, and long-term platform evolution.

Lead architectural decisions for cloud-native, distributed systems and drive modernization of legacy workflows into API-first, event-driven platforms.

Establish engineering standards, best practices, and operational excellence across system design, scalability, security, and performance.

Partner with senior leadership to evaluate technology investments, platform strategy, and execution priorities.

Team Management & Development

Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team by fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Drive hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development for engineers across multiple experience levels.

Provide technical guidance, coaching, and regular feedback to help engineers strengthen both technical and leadership capabilities.

Build an inclusive and accountable engineering culture focused on delivery excellence and business impact.

Delivery & Execution Oversight

Oversee end-to-end execution and delivery of engineering initiatives, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and reliable solutions are delivered on schedule.

Establish and monitor engineering KPIs, SLAs, operational metrics,



and governance processes to improve execution predictability and platform reliability.

Collaborate with Program Management and Product teams to prioritize roadmaps, manage dependencies, mitigate risks, and remove execution blockers.

Drive engineering efficiency through agile development practices, automation, CI/CD, and release management improvements.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner closely with Product, Data Science, AdOps, and Business stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Align engineering execution with organizational priorities and customer outcomes.

Represent Engineering in cross-functional leadership discussions, architecture reviews, and strategic planning sessions.

Communicate technical strategy, delivery status, risks, and trade-offs effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, frameworks, and engineering practices to improve platform scalability, resiliency, and operational efficiency.

Champion modernization initiatives including automation, observability, cloud optimization, and platform standardization.

Promote a data-driven engineering culture focused on continuous improvement, operational excellence, and proactive incident prevention.

Drive adoption of security, compliance,



and reliability best practices across the engineering organization.

Qualifications & Experience

Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Experience: 8+ years in software engineering, including at least 2-3 years in a leadership or managerial role overseeing engineering teams and complex projects.

Technical Expertise: Robust understanding of modern software architecture, cloud-native platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and distributed systems. Ability to guide technical decisions rather than hands-on coding.

Domain Knowledge: Familiarity with AdTech ecosystems, advertising workflows, and related technologies such as identity resolution, campaign execution, and monetization strategies.

Leadership & People Management: Proven track record of managing and mentoring engineering teams, driving performance, and fostering a culture of innovation and accountability.

Strategic Delivery: Experience in defining technical roadmaps, aligning engineering initiatives with business objectives, and managing cross functional dependencies.

Collaboration: Ability to partner effectively with Product, Data, and Operations teams, influencing stakeholders and communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Demonstrated ability to evaluate emerging technologies, champion automation, and implement best practices for scalability, security, and observability.

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