Senior Manager, Software Engineering - AdTech

About The Opportunity

Join the world’s leading local delivery platform as the Senior Manager of Engineering, Ad-Tech Platform Services. This role is pivotal in managing hundreds of millions of euros in advertising revenue, focusing on empowering our partners to attract new customers in the vibrant city of Berlin.

Your Mission

• Collaborate with business and product stakeholders to define the global roadmap for the team in the short and long term.
• Develop the Ad-Tech engineering strategy and implement it across our global organization.
• Lead, support, and mentor engineering managers to enhance their leadership skills.
• Contribute to the development of a next-generation advertising platform with real-time bidding, personalization, and high concurrency, serving over 70 countries and brands with round-the-clock customer orders.
• Plan for scalability, fault tolerance, and reliability of the systems under your purview and streamline processes.
• Uphold the highest standards of quality and fairness in team performance management.
• Integrate best practices in data compliance, PII data protection, and security into our infrastructure, tools, products, processes, and organizational culture.
• Expand our recruitment efforts and establish criteria for identifying talented candidates.
• Drive both quarterly and long-term objectives and key results (OKRs) with full accountability for their execution.
• Advocate for best engineering practices, guiding where engineering efforts should be focused for maximum impact.

Your Heroic Skills

• Around 5 years of leadership experience in managing engineering teams focused on Ad-Tech platforms.
• 10 total years of experience with a strong emphasis on modern web applications and cloud services, particularly in large-scale distributed microservice systems.
• Proficiency in at least 50% of the following technologies: Python, Golang, Java, Javascript, Typescript, Postgres, SQL/NoSQL, BigQuery, Kubernetes, Kafka, REST, gRPC, GraphQL, AWS, GCP, Datadog.
• Experience in overseeing managers and multiple teams concurrently.
• Effective collaboration with product management and other departments to develop new products and features that align with business requirements using modern engineering principles.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a clear business focus.
• Background in engineering, technical knowledge, and the ability to assess complex technical decisions.
• Experience managing high-complexity or high-traffic projects or applications and building large distributed systems.
• Proficiency in coaching, mentoring, and setting up individuals for success.

What’s in it for you

• Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week.
• Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after, happy, and healthy is always on the menu. Because if you’re in good shape, then we’re in good shape.
• Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Meditation, Yoga, Gym & Bicycle Subsidy.
• Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we’ll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank, Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan.
• Look up and go for it. We will support you in developing yourself and your career: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support.
• The power of getting together over some food is unrivaled. Here are a few ways to help you do that. All the yum: Digital Meal Vouchers, Food Vouchers, Online Canteen, Corporate Discounts.