As Director of Engineering you will join and lead a growing team focused on transforming the way outofhome (OOH) advertising assets are connected with programmatic ad tech platforms across the broader digital advertising ecosystem. You will be leading 4 fullstack teams (fulltime employees and offshore) supporting growth across 2 business pillars.
This role requires the leadership skills and vision to build and optimize engineering practices and manage and mentor a team of engineers with an eye for scale and continuous improvement. Additionally this role requires excellence across the technical spectrum and the desire to contribute handson to building products dive deep into advertising and the ad tech ecosystem and creative thinking.
You will be expected to span a number of different roles with your time roughly focused on:
50 Product Delivery & Technical Implementation
Work with Product and executive stakeholders to build marketleading products
Implement product features driving technical and quality practices
Implement and/or build tools to improve Testing Deployment Automation
Develop and evangelize standards for coding data tooling operations
25 Staff & Organizational Development
Recruit retain and grow outstanding engineering talent
Proactively identify skill and experience needs recruiting or developing staff to fill
Work with each engineer to provide continuous feedback and support growth
25 Partner Management
Partner Evangelism Integration Testing and Support
Drive creation of appropriate technical documentation
Drive processes for discovering managing and resolving issues and incidents
Wed love to hear from you if you have:
10 years of fullstack software engineering experience with a track record of building and operating distributed systems at scale
4 years of experience managing multiple teams and individuals
Experience managing products and teams across multiple locations/timezones
Experience working with offshore teams is a plus
Strong capabilities of observation analysis synthesis
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Experience shepherding earlystage products through multiple iterations
Passion and expertise in agile engineering practices and building DevOps culture
Proven experience working with customers and stakeholders at the highest level
Experience working with demand side platforms (DSP) and supply side platforms (SSP)
BA/BS in Computer Science/Engineering Mathematics or related fields
Some technology and tools we use:
Python Django Javascript React gRPC as the main languages and frameworks of choice
AWS Lambda Kubernetes for running our applications
Postgres S3 Elasticsearch Dynamo Snowflake as data stores
Spark Airflow and Iceberg for data processing
Your first 30 days:
Learn and understand corporate departmental and team goals
Gain a good understanding of the career ladder and resources available for a manager
Work with the Product team to have a clear understanding of the product roadmap
Identify and incorporate tools needed for working on the transaction processing platform
Diagnose and troubleshoot production application issues
Meet the team and schedule 1:1s with direct reports
Meet the stakeholders and schedule 1:1s with business counterparts
Your first 60 days:
Gain a good understanding of the our landscape
Create/manage lightweight processes to help the teams function better
Pair with team members on committed initiatives
Work collaboratively with other engineering teams and incorporate best practices
Work with stakeholders and formulate delivery plans for key initiatives
Your first 90 days:
Provide technical leadership in the development team.
Promote and drive innovation in technologies processes and tools.
Deliver projects on time and budget ensuring quality standards are met
Mentor and develop team members provide constructive feedback on design and code quality and build an inclusive culture with high performing teams.
Baseline career status and trajectory for direct reports and start thinking about avenues of career growth
Help define and enforce development practices including unit tests and code reviews.
Develop a deep understanding of the business environment and strategy
Interview Process
1 or 2 preliminary phone screens of 45 min each meeting:
Hiring Manager / VP of Engineering
Development team (to gauge problem solving skills)
Virtual onsite that consists of 45 rounds 45 mins each) spread across 1 or 2 days meeting:
Stakeholders (like Operations & Partnerships)
Product Team
Engineering Team (to gauge technical architectural skills)
Hiring Manager / Sr Director of Engineering
Final Round:
Executive Round (optional)
Benefits of working at here:
Startup culture focused on developing innovative solutions at a fast pace
Opportunity to own meaningful work streams and drive real impact for the business
Comprehensive health benefits
Commuter benefits
401k with match
Equity incentives
Generous time off: 20 PTO days sick days and Summer Fridays
Monthly cell phone and annual workfromhome stipends
We Give Back program with charity donation matching
Flexible hybrid work environment 2 days in office 3 days remote/from home though we are currently completely remote)
Opportunity to grow have fun and be part of a fastgrowing company changing the face of an industry
Direct access to work with and learn from an experienced management team passionate about the business and the development of our employees
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