Engineering Manager, Place Exchange

• We are looking for a dynamic hands-on Engineering Manager; an energetic self-starter who loves bringing to life business objectives with current and sound technical solutions
• This role requires the leadership skills and vision to build and optimize engineering practices and manage and mentor a team of engineers, with an eye for scale and continuous improvement
• Additionally, this role requires excellence across the technical spectrum and the desire to contribute hands-on to building products, dive deep into advertising and the ad tech ecosystem, and creative thinking
• Have 7+ years of full-stack software engineering experience with a track record of building and operating distributed systems at scale
• 1+ years of experience leading teams and individuals
• Adopt a startup mindset by prioritizing speed and iteration—guide your team in striking the right balance between rapid delivery and quality, depending on the context
• Passion and expertise in agile engineering practices and building DevOps culture
• Strong capabilities of observation, analysis, synthesis

Desirable

• As an Engineering Manager, you will be directly responsible for collaborating with our Product & Operations teams, focused on transforming the way out-of-home (OOH) advertising assets are connected with programmatic ad tech platforms across the broader digital advertising ecosystem
• You will be expected to span a number of different roles, with your time roughly focused on:
• 50% Product Delivery & Technical Implementation
• Work with Product and executive stakeholders to build market-leading products
• Implement product features, driving technical and quality practices
• Implement and/or build tools to improve Testing, Deployment, Automation
• Develop and evangelize standards for coding, data, tooling, operations
• 25% Staff & Organizational Development
• Recruit, retain, and grow outstanding engineering talent
• Proactively identify skill and experience needs, recruiting or developing staff to fill
• Work with each engineer, to provide continuous feedback, and support growth
• 25% Partner Management
• Partner Evangelism, Integration, Testing, and Support
• Drive creation of appropriate technical documentation
• Drive processes for discovering, managing, and resolving issues and incidents
• Some technology and tools we use:
• Python, Django, Javascript, React, gRPC as the main languages and frameworks of choice
• AWS Lambda, Kubernetes for running our applications
• Postgres, S3, Dynamo, Snowflake as data stores
• Spark, Airflow, and Iceberg for data processing
• Your first 30 days:
• Learn and understand Place Exchange’s corporate, departmental and team goals
• Gain a good understanding of the Place Exchange career ladder and resources available for a manager
• Work with the Product team to have a clear understanding of the product roadmap
• Identify and incorporate tools needed for working on the transaction processing platform
• Diagnose and troubleshoot production application issues
• Meet the team and schedule 1:1s with direct reports
• Meet the stakeholders and schedule 1:1s with business counterparts
• Your first 60 days
• Gain a good understanding of the Place Exchange landscape
• Create/manage lightweight processes to help the teams function better
• Pair with team members on committed initiatives
• Work collaboratively with other engineering teams and incorporate best practices
• Work with stakeholders and formulate delivery plans for key initiatives
• Your first 90 days:
• Provide technical leadership in the development team
• Promote and drive innovation in technologies, processes, and tools
• Deliver projects on time and budget, ensuring quality standards are met
• Mentor and develop team members, provide constructive feedback on design and code quality and build an inclusive culture with high performing teams
• Baseline career status and trajectory for direct reports and start thinking about avenues of career growth
• Help define and enforce development practices, including unit tests and code reviews
• Develop a deep understanding of the business environment and strategy

• 1 or 2 preliminary phone screens of 45 min each meeting:
• Hiring Manager / VP of Engineering
• Development team (to gauge problem solving skills)
• Virtual onsite that consists of 4-5 rounds (45 mins each) spread across 1 or 2 days meeting:
• Stakeholders (like Operations & Partnerships)
• Product Team
• Engineering Team (to gauge technical architectural skills)
• Hiring Manager / Director of Engineering
• Final Round:
• Executive Round (optional)