[Hiring] AdTech Engineering Team Lead @Very

Role Description

As an AdTech Engineering Team Lead you'll lead a team of 3 to 5 engineers embedded in a client's engineering organization through Very's staff augmentation model, working on programmatic advertising infrastructure. This is a full-time, long-term role that combines people leadership with hands-on technical work.

• Lead, mentor and grow a team of 3 to 5 AdTech engineers.
• Plan and prioritize the team's work with client engineering and product leaders, and own delivery against sprint and roadmap commitments.
• Guide the design and build of real-time bidding (RTB) infrastructure, including the bid request/response lifecycle, auction logic and win notification handling.
• Oversee integrations with ad server platforms, including tag management, creative rendering and VAST compliance.
• Set the architecture for AWS systems that scale elastically under variable, auction-driven traffic.
• Own the data pipelines for bid stream processing, event logging, reporting, attribution and frequency capping.
• Optimize for low latency, high throughput and cost-efficient architecture at volume.
• Own the team's production support and incident response, and maintain system health, performance and reliability.
• Collaborate across engineering, product and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Identify and proactively address potential technical or operational risks before they affect revenue or customers.

Qualifications

• BS or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years directly managing engineers.
• Hands-on experience building programmatic advertising systems (ad networks, SSPs, DSPs, ad exchanges, ad-tech startups or publisher-side engineering).
• Experience working in high-throughput, low-latency production environments.
• Experience designing and operating systems on AWS at scale.
• Hands-on experience building production front-end applications with React and TypeScript.
• Full software development lifecycle experience, including requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment and operations.

Requirements

• Must be based in Canada.
• Professional English fluency.
• Ability to work with significant overlap with US business hours.

Benefits

• Base Compensation: $126,500 CAD, commensurate with experience.
• Variable Compensation: Up to 10% annual performance bonus.
• Group RRSP match (Employer contributes 4% of your annual income).
• $150 USD/mo cell/internet stipend.
• $600 USD/yr home office equipment stipend.
• Extended healthcare, dental, and vision insurance.
• Professional development stipend.
• Loaned MacBook Pro.
• Annual team retreat.