Engineering Manager, Fluent
Development, C# / .NET / High Availability
$160-225k
+ Competitive bonus
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Customer acquisition platform
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Customer acquisition platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-225k
+ Competitive bonus
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To change the digital marketing industry through smarter technology and better economics.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years managing or leading engineering teams
- Strong backend development experience: C#/.NET, APIs, microservices, or similar modern stack
- Experience with SDK or platform development: building tools and APIs consumed by external developers or partners
- Cloud infrastructure experience: AWS preferred, including deployment, scaling, and operational concerns
- Proven people management skills: hiring, mentoring, performance management, and team development
- Strong communication skills for partnering with Product, clients, and executive leadership
- Experience with agile delivery and managing engineering roadmaps
Desirable
- Ad tech, marketing tech, or performance marketing platform experience
- Experience managing offshore or distributed engineering teams
- Kafka or event-driven architecture experience
- Multi-tenant SaaS platform experience
- Experience with partner/client-facing technical relationships
What the job involves
- Fluent is building the next-generation advertising network, Partner Monetize & Advertiser Acquisition. Our vision is to build an ML/AI-first network of advertisers and publishers to achieve a common objective — elevating relevancy in E-commerce for everyday shoppers
- As our Engineering Manager - Development, you will lead the software engineering teams responsible for Fluent's core platform, SDKs, and product applications. You will oversee our Core engineering team, SDK developers, and specialized engineers working on client integrations and internal tools
- This role requires balancing technical leadership with people management, ensuring your teams deliver high-quality, scalable software while maintaining engineering excellence and developer velocity
- Lead multiple development teams: Core platform, SDK, and specialized engineers — hiring, mentoring, and performance management
- Own technical strategy for platform architecture, API design, and SDK development
- Drive engineering excellence: code quality, testing practices, CI/CD, and technical debt management
- Partner with Product Management to translate roadmap priorities into technical execution plans
- Coordinate client integrations: technical requirements, implementation support, and partner API development
- Manage offshore development partnerships to extend team capacity and deliver on roadmap commitments
- Ensure platform reliability: monitoring, incident response, and operational excellence
- Build scalable backend services: APIs, integrations, and event-driven architectures
- Foster engineering culture: knowledge sharing, technical growth, and cross-team collaboration
Our take
Finding new customers used to be a slow and expensive process for businesses, but modern adverts are driven by data to efficiently target consumers and optimize the success of campaigns. However, creating such data-driven advertisement campaigns requires data frameworks and digital content creators to support them, resources that many businesses are unable to access.
Fluent provides a data-driven digital marketing platform for businesses looking to find new customers through advertising by leveraging data analytics, digital media properties and simple software integrations. The company achieves this by capturing first-party insights through consumers who are searching for new brands, using predictive modelling to match these audiences with relevant ad campaigns.
Whilst data-driven advertising is nothing new, Fluent has taken the unique angle of collecting first-party data from consumers who sign up to their digital media properties with the intention of finding personalized brand recommendations. This approach ultimately benefits both parties, helping brands to find new customers who are actively looking for their products or services.
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Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Ample career and professional growth opportunities
- New Headquarters with an open floor plan to drive collaboration
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Pre-tax savings plans and transit/parking programs
- 401K with competitive employer match
- Volunteer and philanthropic activities throughout the year
- Educational and social events
Company HQ
Battery Park City, New York, NY
Leadership
Ryan Schulke
(Co-Founder & CSO)Experience as Account Executive for Innovation Ads and MediaWhiz Holdings LLC, and Media Director for Clash Media US.
Matthew Conlin
(Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer)Experience as Account Executive for Innovation Ads and Trancos, and was Director of Sales for Clash Media USA from 2007 to 2010.
Don Patrick
(CEO)Joined the company in 2018 as COO, becoming CEO in 2021. Is also a Managing General Partner at Natirar and was CEO at SenecaOne Finance.
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