Engineering Manager- Advertising Platform
BANGALORE, KARNATAKA
ENGINEERING – LEADERSHIPFULL TIME
Your Key Responsibilities:
- You will own the ad tech platform to enable ad delivery (showing the right ads to the right users at the right time) and measurement (demonstrating value to our advertisers)
- You will work with the ad product team to manage & deliver the roadmap that helps us reach our business goals
- You will implement best practices and influence technical design to ensure a robust client & backend ad architecture that is flexible & robust
- You will bring expertise on technical possibilities to capture data signals on our users across platforms and execute models to create predictive targeting segments
- You will build innovative video ad formats within the construct of current video ad standards like VAST/VPAID
- You will collaborate with top third party ad serving & measurement partners to certify them
- You will work with QA & ad operations team to troubleshoot any issues in an ongoing campaign or production system
- You will identify opportunities to develop internal software products & tools to help increase efficiency, automation, and systems monitoring
- You will be responsible for bridging the gap between ad product and QA. Create test cases to ensure features work as expected and ad integrations are sound
- You will keep up to date with new IAB/MRC specifications, technologies and new initiatives in the ad ecosystem
What to Bring:
- Bachelor's/Master's degree in computer science or related discipline preferred
- At least 3+ years of relevant experience in the ad tech space – having worked on ad servers, programmatic platforms or other ad systems
- 5+ years of experience in software development.
- Understanding of standard ad units and basic standards like MRAID, VAST, VPAID, VMAP
- Understanding of programmatic delivery whether guaranteed, preferred deals or open auctions
- Atleast 4+ years managing software development teams including hands-on architectural or distributed systems experience
- Experience with MySQL, NoSql (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB)
- Experience troubleshooting ad serving issues, running charles sessions, evaluating ad calls and event triggers
- Exposure in building RESTful APIs with monitoring(New Relic, statsd,graphite),fault tolerance and metrics
- Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch, Kafka,
- A passion for solving complex system and data challenges and desire to thrive in a constantly innovating and changing environment
- Proven track record of translating organizational strategy into actionable technology solutions that drive operational excellence while enabling synergistic growth and organizational scale
- Experience with CI/CD processeses
- Prior experience with machine learning is a plus