As Director of Engineering, you will join and lead a growing team focused on transforming the way out-of-home (OOH) advertising assets are connected with programmatic ad tech platforms across the broader digital advertising ecosystem. You will be leading ~4 full-stack teams (full-time 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 hands-on 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 market-leading 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

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• 10+ years of full-stack 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 early-stage 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 4-5 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 work-from-home 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 fast-growing 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