Software Engineering Manager (AdTech)

Location: Hybrid in Durham, United States; only candidates local to the posting location will be considered.

Company

hirify.global provides mobile advertising technology connecting consumers, app publishers, advertisers, telecoms, and OEMs across devices.

What you will do

• Lead full-stack engineering pods responsible for campaign management, unified dashboards, audience tooling, and low-latency supply and demand APIs.
• Manage Senior, Mid-level, and Junior Full Stack Engineers across frontend, backend, and data domains, including 1:1s, career development, and performance management.
• Partner with Product Management, Design, and Engineering Directors to define roadmaps, scope work, and drive sprint execution.
• Provide technical oversight for API design, service scalability, backend computational logic, frontend performance, and architectural quality.
• Drive observability, incident management, post-mortems, on-call practices, and operational health for pod-owned services.
• Lead hiring and onboarding while aligning pod delivery with broader architecture and business strategy.

Requirements

• 2+ years of direct people management experience leading software engineering teams.
• 8+ years of hands-on software development experience building high-scale production platforms.
• Strong full-stack architecture background with emphasis on distributed backend systems, API design, data modeling, and low-latency performance.
• Experience with technologies such as TypeScript, React, Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, or C++ in polyglot environments.
• Experience mentoring senior or staff engineers, resolving cross-pod dependencies, and navigating complex technical trade-offs.
• Comfort with Agile methodologies, CI/CD, AWS or GCP, and operational metrics including SLAs, SLOs, and system health.

Nice to have

• Experience in AdTech, high-throughput marketplaces, or data-intensive dashboard surfaces.
• Experience managing distributed teams across US, European, and Israeli time zones.
• Experience integrating data pipelines, machine learning, or BI tools into product workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within small, autonomous pods that own outcomes and roadmaps end to end.
• Build an inclusive, high-ownership engineering culture focused on technical excellence and team growth.
• Collaborate with global offices and cross-functional stakeholders across product, design, and engineering.
• Join a company focused on meaningful mobile advertising experiences and consumer, publisher, and advertiser outcomes.