Engineering Manager II, Creatives

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of backend engineers responsible for managing the creative pipeline.

• Facilitate daily operations and eliminate obstacles to ensure the team delivers consistently.

• Implement roadmap milestones established in collaboration with Product and senior engineering leadership.

• Decompose initiatives into clearly defined sprints and monitor delivery, proactively identifying risks and delays.

• Conduct stand-ups, planning sessions, retrospectives, and oversee sprint health.

• Hold regular one-on-one meetings, offer tactical feedback, foster psychological safety, and assist engineers in their growth plans.

• Highlight performance issues to leadership promptly.

• Engage in code reviews and architectural discussions.

• Maintain coding and testing standards while guiding scalable component-level design choices.

• Collaborate with Bidding, Data Science, and Product teams on inter-departmental dependencies.

• Take part in incident resolution and assist with the team's on-call responsibilities.

• Ensure that production issues are thoroughly investigated to identify root causes.

• Participate in the interview process, provide feedback on hiring, and assist in onboarding new team members.

• Promote the use of approved AI tools for code generation, debugging, and documentation.

• Exemplify StackAdapt's values and nurture trust, transparency, and technical excellence.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience in adtech or martech, particularly in the area of creative serving within programmatic advertising.

• Understanding of various advertising channels and their collaborative functions in delivering creatives to users.

• Familiarity with Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO), ad markup, and rendering techniques.

• At least 1 year of people management experience, or 2+ years as a tech lead/mentor for a backend team, with aspirations to evolve into a managerial role.

• Over 5 years of backend development experience in distributed systems, microservices, and high-throughput, low-latency services.

• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language (Golang preferred; Java, Kotlin, C++, Rust, or similar).

• Hands-on leadership approach, including participation in code reviews, architecture discussions, and involvement in production incidents.

• Solid understanding of computer science principles, data structures, and algorithms.

• Familiarity with Scrum and Kanban methodologies.

• Proven track record of meeting committed milestones.

• Clear and transparent communication skills with both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.

• Practical experience with the team's technology stack.

• Frontend development experience, knowledge of web technologies, browser creative serving/rendering, and frontend devices (preferred but not required).

• Experience with operating systems adhering to global compliance and privacy standards (preferred but not required).

🏝️ Benefits

• Highly competitive salary.

• Global retirement/401K/pension savings options.

• Competitive paid time off packages, including days off for birthdays!

• Access to a comprehensive mental health care program.

• Health benefits from the first day of employment.

• Work from home reimbursements.

• Optional global WeWork membership for those seeking an alternative to their home office, with hubs in London and Toronto.

• Comprehensive training and onboarding program.

• Support for personal development initiatives, including conferences, courses, and books.

• Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to encourage continuous learning.

• An exceptional parental leave program.

• A friendly, welcoming, and supportive workplace culture.

• Engaging social and team events!

• Additional compensation options, such as annual bonuses, commissions, and equity awards, depending on the role.