Technical Lead, Ad Signal
Permanent
£86.5-95k
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Video management tools
Open for applications
Video management tools
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£86.5-95k
+ Share options
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
We fix the messy, expensive problems in video that everyone else ignores. Ad Signal helps content-led teams & businesses reduce cost and waste by cleaning up video libraries, streamline (AI) processing, and protect revenue by verifying when ads are aired.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for an experienced technical leader who gets excited about leading and empowering teams to build things no one has ever done before
- The ideal candidate has years of commercial experience in a leadership role solving problems in a secure, scalable and maintainable way
- Proven experience leading team(s) in designing, building, delivering and maintaining applications with experience covering both frontend and backend
- Experience with stakeholder management both internally and externally
- Experience owning processes that structure codebases in a maintainable and easily understood way. To follow and advocate for best practices and conventions along with the ability to coach and mentor other developers
- Experience with web frameworks (Rails, Django or similar framework)
- Experience in operating large systems (following an SRE approach or similar). Promoting observability and metrics lead approach to driving scalability and operational excellence
- Ability to reason with and create models that accurately reflect business requirements, and the ability to turn this into elegant and maintainable code. You should assess and implement the various dependencies, identify where they might lead to future issues, and mitigate them
- Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures and algorithms)
Desirable
- Professional experience with Rails (our default web stack)
- Professional experience with a lower level language - Eg C, C++, Rust
- Streaming data experience in a real time or near real time context. Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS Kinesis or similar
- Experience with OpenCV, FFMPEG and/or other image and video manipulation tools
- Experience with cloud deployment strategies utilising Kubernetes
What the job involves
- We have unique commercial and scaling problems to overcome, and we need some great problem solvers and leaders to tackle hard technical challenges
- We currently use Ruby on Rails for web facing services along with Python and Rust for lower level image and video processing pipelines
- We currently use Ruby on Rails for web facing services along with Python and Rust for lower level image and video processing pipelines. Our products are focused around deduplicating and gaining insight into video and audio content
- We are pragmatic about using the best tool to solve the problem at hand and candidates will be expected to take a lead role in building out our core technology stacks working across multiple languages and frameworks
- Our primary services have real time / near real time data streaming requirements. Having previous experience in video stream manipulation along with asynchronous data streaming are desirable additional key skills we are looking for
- Finally, we are very side-project friendly. If you have an Open Source project that you're working on, then we're happy for you to do so as long as it's not a competitor to our own product suite
Our take
With products focused on video, image, and audio content, Ad Signal is utilising AI to help businesses manage their content. Their solutions help content creators find assets quicker, saving them time, as well as identifying duplicates and removing them. They can also apply metadata to content, helping to organise libraries of content and archives.
With large clients such as Sky and Clearcast, it’s clear they are solving a problem in the TV advertising industry.
Ad Signal also has a sustainability angle, claiming to reduce companies' carbon footprint by reducing their need for large data storage centers.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2025
$4.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $4.1m
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday exc bank holidays
- Full remote company
- 3% employee pension
- Enhanced parental leave - 52 weeks paid including 6 weeks at full pay for both parents
- Flexible working
- Private health insurance through BUPA
- MacBook, monitor, keyboard and mouse provided
- £2,000 per year training budget
- Employee share options
- Meals for new parents - expense dinners for your first week of parenthood
Company values
- Honesty - We speak plainly and share the full picture, both internally and externally. That means telling the truth even when it’s uncomfortable, so that trust can be built on solid ground. Clients know we won’t oversell or overpromise. Colleagues know there’s no spin, no politics, and no fear in raising concerns.
- Loyalty - We back each other and our customers. That means stepping up when things get tough, not walking away. We act as true partners - not just vendors - and we take pride in shared wins.
- Tenacity - We go after the hard stuff and we don’t quit. Our own brand of agility means staying close to the challenge, adapting fast, and matching the tools or process to the task, not the other way around. It’s not about late nights or heroics. It’s about solving the unsolvable without compromise.
- Accountability - We take ownership of our work, our mistakes, and our improvements. There’s no blame culture here. When something goes wrong, we raise our hands, fix it fast, and share what we’ve learned. Problems don’t belong to individuals, they belong to the company, and we solve them together.
Company HQ
Fully remote
Articles
Leadership
Tom Dunning
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked as a Developer in the broadcasters for many years. Founded Ad Signal to solve issues they had experienced in the industry.
Anson Kelly
(CTO)Anson has built and led multiple successful cross-functional teams, managing large, mission-critical datasets and applying his technical expertise to solve complex business challenges.
Mike Duffy
(Co-Founder)A highly experienced doer of technology, Mike brings 25 years of technology experience, including Media, Telecoms, Publishing and Industrial industries.
Colin Stonelake
(CFO)Colin has specialised in audit, finance, business transformation, and programme management throughout his 40-year career.
Sophie Bartlett
(COO)Sophie has 15+ years experience of optimising operations, building teams and the relevant processes that support sustainable growth and long-term success within a fast-paced environment.
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