Data Engineering Manager, Verve
Real time omnichannel ad platform
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Real time omnichannel ad platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower the growth of the open internet by bringing marketers and publishers closer together across the omnichannel customer journey.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in Data Engineering, with a focus on leadership in technical settings
- AdTech industry expertise (specifically programmatic auctions and high-volume bid/impression/RTB data) is strongly preferred
- Expert knowledge of Python and SQL
- Deep, hands-on experience with distributed data processing and streaming: Apache Spark / Spark Streaming and Apache Flink
- Strong experience operating high-throughput event streaming and messaging with Apache Kafka
- Proficiency with the Google Cloud data stack (BigQuery, GKE, GCS, Dataflow/Vertex AI) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
- Experience building and operating CI/CD for data pipelines (e.g., ArgoCD, containerized/Docker deployments)
- Working knowledge of lakehouse and open table formats (e.g., Iceberg/Delta) and the trade-offs between real-time and batch architectures (latency, cost, governance)
- Familiarity with analytics/OLAP and BI tooling (e.g., Druid, Looker, Rill/Turnilo) and dimensional data modeling
What the job involves
- You will provide the organizational leadership, team-building vision, and operational drive to establish and expand our new European engineering hub in Dublin
- In line with Verve’s site-centric location strategy, we build teams from the ground up by placing elite technical leaders on the floor first and empowering them to scale out high-performance engineering blocks
- In this role, you will take full people-management and strategic delivery ownership over our global Mobile SDK chapter—which includes established engineering pods across Hamburg and Bangalore, while aggressively hiring to build and expand your local footprint in Dublin
- Provide full supervision and support for the local data engineering pod, spanning both data-platform and analytics/reporting work streams
- Manage team capacity, lead hiring to backfill and grow the pod, and define team charters that support a fast-evolving data platform roadmap
- Foster a high-performance culture across a distributed organization (Bangalore and EU), onboarding recent hires and establishing strong operational discipline (on-call/IRM, runbooks, incident response)
- Plan and execute multi-quarter initiatives with many interdependencies (e.g., the data lakehouse re-architecture (Apache Flink on GKE), the dedicated CTV late-impression pipeline, and CI/CD automation (ArgoCD)) ensuring alignment with architectural standards
- Refine the team's engineering processes, methodologies, and technical standards: code quality, infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, observability, and cost optimization
- Partner closely with Product Management, Backend Engineering, Data Science, and Analytics to align the platform roadmap with business objectives
- Stay active in technical implementation (estimated 50-70% hands-on): designing pipelines, delivering new product features, reviewing architecture and code, addressing tech debts, and troubleshooting production data issues
- Undertake production responsibilities including setting up monitoring and alerts, oncall support, troubleshooting, incident management and communication, and postmortem
- Independently design maintainable and scalable data systems for complex, high-throughput streaming and batch pipelines. Be aware and manage the infrastructure cost of data systems
Our take
The Verve Group provides an omnichannel advertising platform that connects advertisers, agencies, brands, and publishers to people in real time. Verve places a significant emphasis on privacy in its offering, in a space that has received media criticism for intrusive practices.
Over the years, the company has expanded its digital financial services platform and steadily ramped up its acquisitions. It bought mobile DSP company Dataset and is a bidding partner for in-app inventory on Google Ad Manager.
The Verve Group have made a significant footprint in the digital ad marketplace, having partnered with thousands of advertisers. The company continues pushing towards new and expanding markets as it builds a larger and stronger global technology stack.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Development and career opportunities
- An Apple MacBook and telephone reimbursement
- Fun (online) events organised by and with colleagues
- And work with a great team and the most fantastic brands!
- 27 vacation days
- Yearly 3 wellness days
- Training budget of 500 Euro per year
- Company pension
Company HQ
Carlsbad, CA
Leadership
Sameer Sondhi
(CEO)CEO at Affle. Previously the Senior Director of Business Development at AdMarvel and xAd. Sameer was also Senior VP at In Mobi.
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