About the Role
Manage and mentor a team of backend engineers building scalable systems for video delivery and ad integration. Drive technical planning, system architecture, and cross-team collaboration to ensure reliability and performance.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of backend engineers in designing and maintaining video infrastructure
- Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to define technical roadmaps
- Oversee the development of ad-serving systems with high availability and low latency
- Mentor engineers in technical growth and career progression
- Ensure code quality through design reviews and best practices
- Drive incident response and post-mortem processes for production systems
- Guide architectural decisions for scalable, maintainable backend services
- Work closely with frontend and data teams to integrate video and ad features
- Manage sprint planning, backlog refinement, and team delivery cycles
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Evaluate and adopt new technologies relevant to video encoding and streaming
- Monitor system performance and lead optimization initiatives
- Coordinate with security and compliance teams on data handling standards
- Support on-call rotations and reliability engineering practices
- Balance technical debt with feature development timelines
- Ensure API contracts meet internal and external service requirements
- Lead efforts in monitoring, alerting, and observability for backend systems
- Promote reuse of shared services and internal tooling
- Drive documentation standards for team-owned systems
- Facilitate knowledge sharing across engineering teams
- Participate in hiring and onboarding of new engineering talent
- Represent the team in cross-functional planning meetings
- Advocate for developer experience and internal platform usability
- Ensure adherence to engineering SLAs and uptime goals
- Support scalability testing and capacity planning for peak traffic
Nice to Have
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- Experience leading teams in video or advertising domains
- Background in real-time bidding systems
- Knowledge of content delivery networks
- Experience with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code
- Familiarity with gRPC and protocol buffers
- Exposure to machine learning pipelines in ad targeting
- Contributions to open-source projects
- Public speaking or conference presentations
- Experience scaling systems to millions of daily users
Compensation
$180,000 - $220,000 annually, commensurate with experience
Work Arrangement
Hybrid remote with preferred location in the Eastern or Central time zone
Team
Part of the Video & Ads Engineering team, reporting to the Director of Engineering
About the Team
The Video & Ads Engineering team builds and maintains core infrastructure for video processing, delivery, and monetization through advertising. The team works closely with product, data, and frontend groups to ensure seamless user experiences and reliable revenue streams.
What We Value
Technical excellence, clear communication, and collaborative problem-solving. We prioritize sustainable engineering practices, inclusive team dynamics, and measurable impact on product goals.
Available for qualified candidates
