Engineering Manager, Branch
Discovery Ads Platform
$169-216k
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Mobile app marketing software
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Mobile app marketing software
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$169-216k
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help clients increase their conversion rates, decrease wastage, and boost revenue.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in Engineering with 2+ years of experience as an engineering manager or technical lead who has coached and mentored other engineers
- A track record of building and scaling products in fast-paced environments, ideally with a focus on ads or similar high-traffic platforms
- Proficiency in Java, with the willingness to dive into any language or technology as needed
- Familiarity with large-scale ads platforms (e.g., building and optimizing real-time bidding systems, integrating with major ad networks, or leveraging third-party ads APIs)
- A strong ability to follow through, stay organized, and juggle multiple tasks without losing track of anything. You have a keen sense of prioritization, and can align day-to-day tasks with larger strategic initiatives
- A self-starter mindset: ownership, accountability, initiative, and urgency
- Excellent communication skills, both within and outside of the team
- An ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment by bringing order to chaos & identifying / solving emergent issues proactively
What the job involves
- You’ll be joining a fast-moving team dedicated to building an ads platform that serves 110M+ Daily Active Users (DAU), powering the next generation of mobile app discovery for potentially billions of devices worldwide
- We’re looking for someone who's excited to work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and Data Scientists to address complex challenges of acquiring, understanding, and ranking content—and now, delivering highly performant, scalable ads at massive scale
- Working with our team means you’ll get the opportunity to learn and grow daily, interfacing with both technical and non-technical team members, and collaborating with external partners
- Join our team and see your contributions have an immediate impact on not just the company, but the mobile ecosystem as a whole!
- Own the development of a high-scale ads platform serving 110M+ DAU, leading critical initiatives to ensure reliable and scalable ad delivery
- Support and mentor a diverse group of engineers, helping them grow as technologists and leaders
- Be responsible for continuously improving your team’s productivity and ensuring the success of our ads platform in a fast-paced environment
- Manage and prioritize new feature development, ongoing support, and technical debt for large-scale ad serving systems
- Guide your team through in-depth technical planning discussions with engineers, product, and design; empower them to make effective decisions on ads platform architecture and implementation
- Remove roadblocks for your team, escalating when you need additional context or direction
- Promote a culture of feedback and transparent communication, ensuring your team remains tightly aligned with Branch’s goals
- Establish measurable goals for your team’s productivity, including metrics that measure ads platform health (latency, uptime, fill rate, revenue, etc.)
- Coordinate with other engineering managers and directors across the organization to architect and implement complex systems that integrate with the entire Branch product suite
- Champion best practices for performance, reliability, and security of the ads platform, ensuring we can handle real-time traffic spikes
Our take
Providing a unified mobile experience to users can be difficult and expensive for many companies. Branch solves this problem with its linking and attribution platform, allowing companies to gain, track and keep mobile app users.
When it first launched, Branch focused solely on delivering a comprehensive multi-platform linking solution that takes consumers to their relevant destination. Since then, its solution has expanded, and now offers increased user engagement and holistic marketing measurements. This has allowed the company to scale its user base, and to grow its existing relationships. Branch now serves over 100,000 apps and boasts more than three billion monthly users. Its impressive client list includes Airbnb, NBC and Adobe.
Branch raised a further $300 million in funding in early 2022, pushing its valuation to $4 billion. The company intends to use that money to invest further in its mobile linking program and other products. This will ensure that Branch remains a key player in the mobile marketing space, despite alleged attempts by Google to block its software on Android smartphones, due to apparent conflicts with Branch's mobile experience tools. Branch's friction with Google however, only goes to show how it is disrupting the monopoly Google has over mobile experiences.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
35% female employees
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2022
$300m
LATE VC
Sep 2019
$125m
SERIES E
Total funding: $667.1m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Medical/Dental/Vision Coverage
- Home Office & Annual Professional Development Stipend
- And More (Varies by Location)
- 401k
- Stork Club & Urbansitter
- Onsite gym
- CalTrain GoPass
- Flexible PTO
Company values
- Good judgement
- Ownership
- Communication
- Initiative
- Impact
- Urgency
- Grit
- Humility
Company HQ
Ventura, Palo Alto, CA
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Leadership
Alex Austin
(Board Member & Co-Founder)Was a Process Development Engineer at MiaSole and a Software Developer at Cogwheel Labs for 1 year. Served as CEO of Kindred Prints.
Dmitri Gaskin
(Director of Discovery & Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Programmer at Mapbox and a Software Engineer at Kindred Prints.
Mike Molinet
(Co-Founder)Previously served as a Product Development Engineer at 3M and co-founded Kindred Prints. Was also a Founder of Minnesota Network of Young Entrepreneurs until January 2017.
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