Director of Technology, Ad Tech

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Argentina.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with the CTPO on technology strategy, translating strategic goals into specific architecture proposals and implementation plans.

• Evaluate solution designs and architecture proposals from the engineering team; either approve, suggest alternatives, or refine them.

• Manage the entire delivery process: sprint planning, ticket definition, scope management, and ensuring accountability for agreed timelines.

• Oversee a distributed engineering team of nine professionals across backend, full stack, data, QA, and ML, supported by an on-the-ground engineering lead.

• Create measurable progress reports so that leadership is always informed about what is being delivered, what is at risk, and the reasons behind it.

• Elevate engineering standards: improve solution design quality, code review practices, documentation, and testing benchmarks.

• Collaborate with product management to convert requirements into clearly defined, sequenced engineering tasks.

• Advocate for AI-assisted development methodologies throughout the team.

• Within six months, empower the CTPO to step back from daily engineering tasks while ensuring architecture decisions are made swiftly and effectively, sprints adhere to commitments, and delivery timelines are reliable.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years in software engineering, including at least 3 years in leadership roles for engineering teams.

• Direct experience in building or managing advertising technology systems such as bidders, exchanges or SSPs, ad servers, or real-time auction infrastructures.

• Familiarity with the programmatic ecosystem, including OpenRTB, supply chain standards (ads.txt, sellers.json, schain), identity, and measurement.

• Strong proficiency in data engineering, including high-volume data pipelines, data warehousing, and analytics infrastructure; experience with AWS is essential.

• Proven ability to manage distributed or offshore teams and achieve consistent results across different time zones.

• Capability to transition between strategic discussions with executive leadership and detailed technical evaluations with engineers.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer.

• Inclusive, equitable, and respectful workplace.