Engineering Manager, iSpot
$163.6-212.7k
+ Stock Options + Variable Commission + Annual Bonus Target
More information about location
Real-time TV advertisement analytics
Open for applications
Real-time TV advertisement analytics
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$163.6-212.7k
+ Stock Options + Variable Commission + Annual Bonus Target
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To unify ad measurement across creative, audience and outcomes to drive optimal video advertising performance for our customers.
Role
Who you are
- Engineering Leadership: Proven experience managing high-performing teams delivering production-grade, distributed software at scale
- Big Data: Deep domain expertise in big data architectures, specifically managing high-throughput data ingestion, or media metadata systems
- System Modernization: Proven track record of upgrading legacy systems and refactoring technical debt into scalable, modern platform architectures
- AI Implementation: Experience embedding AI/ML models into production workflows to automate content cataloging, creative identification, or data tagging
- Full-Stack Oversight: Architectural proficiency in both backend data systems and frontend technologies used to build performant internal management tools
- Lifecycle Ownership: Demonstrated accountability for the end-to-end software lifecycle, from initial design through to post-release stability and performance
- Quality Governance: Experience defining and enforcing rigorous quality gates, including automated unit, integration, and regression testing frameworks
- Operational Excellence: Strong focus on production stability, using root-cause analysis and data-driven metrics (e.g., defect rates, latency) to drive improvement
- Agile Execution: Mastery of effective sprint planning to balance rapid delivery of new platform features with long-term infrastructure stability
- Delivery Velocity: Ability to maintain a high shipping cadence while upholding strict standards for system reliability and data integrity
- Strategic Collaboration: Exceptional communication skills to align engineering efforts with Product, Data Science, and Operations objectives
- If you don't feel you met every single requirement for the role, don't rule yourself out. Please apply anyway!
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Engineering Manager to lead the development of our high-scale Ad Platform infrastructure
- This role is responsible for the mission-critical systems that ingest, process, and organize massive streams of media data
- You will own the end-to-end data lifecycle, from ingestion of raw broadcast/digital signals to the management of a robust Content Catalog
- This role has explicit accountability for software quality, owns the frontend, and brings ads domain expertise, including ownership of the ad catalog
- Your objective is to ensure that our platform provides a highly accurate, performant, and "source-of-truth" foundation for all downstream measurement and attribution products
- The role requires balancing people leadership, technical execution, and quality outcomes across all platform systems
- System Modernization: Lead the strategy for upgrading and refactoring existing ingestion and cataloging systems to improve throughput, reduce latency, and lower technical debt
- AI-Driven Cataloging: Embed machine learning and AI into the content cataloging workflow to automate creative identification, metadata extraction, and fingerprinting at scale
- Big Data Domain Expertise: Ensure the accuracy and reliability of massive ad datasets, partnering cross-functionally to evolve platform capabilities in support of complex attribution modeling
- Full Lifecycle Ownership: Own the pipeline from design and development through testing, release, and post-release stability
- Quality Gating: Define and enforce software quality standards. You are the final authority on release readiness, tracking metrics such as defect density, test coverage, and production uptime
- Rigorous Testing: Ensure unit, integration, and regression testing are natively embedded in the CI/CD pipeline. Lead root-cause analysis (RCA) for any production incidents to drive continuous improvement
- Effective Sprint Planning: Translate long-term platform strategy into actionable, well-scoped sprints. Balance the delivery of new features with the maintenance of "always-on" ingestion systems
- Frontend & Internal Tooling: While the focus is backend-heavy, you will own the architecture and usability of internal-facing tools and dashboards, ensuring consistency and performance for internal power users
- People Leadership: Coach and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of high accountability, ownership, and "quality-first" engineering
- System Health: Ensure the 24/7 availability and performance of the ad catalog and ingestion engines
- Agile Maturity: Drive agile best practices to ensure the team remains nimble while maintaining the discipline required for big data environments
Our take
New streaming platforms and CTV provide novel data, with great potential to improve advertising engagement. However, information such as how many times an ad was aired and watched, whether viewers were captivated, and how relevant it is to their viewing preferences can still be difficult to access.
iSpot provides an ad measurement platform for TV, streaming platforms, and DSPs, allowing businesses to measure the success of their marketing campaigns in real time. The platform provides information such as brand recognition, purchase intent, likeability, and audience relevance, allowing businesses to benchmark this information against competitors.
Whilst other marketing platforms tackle similar obstacles, iSpot uniquely categorizes its data into insights that are easily understood and actioned. The company has ensured that its services are integrated with other 300 major streaming platforms and DSPs, futureproofing itself for the new wave of TV viewers, and in 2026 launched an agentic AI platform to augment its offering.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2022
$325m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2018
$30m
SERIES C
Total funding: $382.8m
Company benefits
- Healthcare: iSport offers two medical and dental plans for employees and their dependents as well as vision insurance. Employees may elect comprehensive individual coverage for medial, dental and vision for only $35/month
- Equity: Stock options are awarded upon hire. Additional grants may be rewarded during the compensation planning cycles
- Financial Wellbeing: iSport offers 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with a discretionary employer annual match. A tax advising benefit is offered via Carta. Short and long-term disability coverage and Life and AD&D insurance are also offered
- Health & Wellbeing: Virtual wellness classes, company wide wellness challenges, onsite health fair, as well as employee assistance program (EAP) are all offered as a way of supporting your health and wellbeing
- Tuition Reimbursement: Unlimited access to a comprehensive learning platform and tuition reimbursement to help advance your career at iSpot
Company HQ
West Lake Sammamish, Bellevue, WA
Leadership
Sean Muller
(Founder & CEO)Experience as CTO and Vice President of Product Development for eNom, Inc. Was also COO of MediaNet Digital, Inc. from 2008 to 2011.
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