Simulmedia is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead our senior full stack engineering team in Ukraine. Youll report to our Ukraine-based VP of Engineering and play a critical role in building the foundation of our next-generation self-serve TV ad buying platform.
This is a hands-on leadership role focused on delivering scalable user-facing features while collaborating with cross-functional leaders in Data DevOps and Science including future-facing work on LLMs and agentic workflows. Youll bring broad technical depth full stack expertise and a passion for creating seamless intuitive experiences in a product-led growth environment.
This position is located in Kyiv or Lviv Ukraine. Our team is remote-first with occasional team meetings in our office and full flexibility to work from either city.
What Youll Do
Lead and mentor a team of full stack engineers building a modern web-based ad buying platform.
Set technical direction across frontend backend and API design ensuring high quality and performance.
Stay hands-on in the codebase where necessary to unblock the team spike new approaches or review critical paths
Collaborate with Product Design Data Engineering DevOps and Science teams to deliver impactful features.
Contribute to architectural decisions that balance scalability velocity and maintainability.
Support integration of real-time data machine learning models and agentic capabilities into the product.
Help grow the team through recruiting onboarding and professional development.
Participate in the on-call rotation to help ensure system availability and quick incident resolution.
Foster a high-trust performance-driven engineering culture.
What Were Looking For
8 years of engineering experience including 3 years in technical leadership.
Deep hands-on expertise in full stack development React/
TypeScript . Strong architectural skills and experience building scalable customer-facing SaaS products.
Comfortable being hands-on when needed whether coding debugging or exploring solutions
Experience working with cloud services (preferably AWS) CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices.
Familiarity with data-intensive systems model integrations or LLM-driven workflows.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills across global cross-functional teams.
Bonus Points
Experience in ad tech martech or performance-oriented SaaS platforms.
Exposure to DevOps principles observability tooling or real-time analytics.