Overview
The Director of Software Engineering will manage a team of Full Stack and Backend engineers on our Platform team. This individual will acquire a deep technical understanding of Viant’s Demand Side Platform and drive the development of our core systems. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in scalable distributed systems and architecture, with experience planning, managing, and executing a technical roadmap to develop and implement significant and innovative products that are critical to the ongoing success of Viant. This is a product-focused role, where the primary responsibility is working with multiple stakeholders (PMs, other engineering teams, program management, leadership etc.) to deliver against product roadmap items.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of high quality, impactful, scalable products and systems that delight users and achieve business goals.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimize platform performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Own the technical strategic roadmap planning for your domain, and help shape the engineering strategy for the organization.
- Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management with PM, Business Development, Marketing, Sales, Legal, and Finance.
- Be willing to code/design on occasion, contribute to critical projects, conduct code reviews, and provide technical guidance when necessary while balancing leadership responsibilities.
- Hire, grow and operate high-efficiency teams. Ensure high standards in engineering and quality practices, speed of delivery, architecture and design, processes and code quality.
- Foster a culture of continuous growth and improvement through coaching, mentoring, feedback and clear measurable outcomes.
GREAT TO HAVE
- 12+ years of experience, including 5+ years’ experience managing full-stack teams.
- 5+ years of experience working with geographically remote teams and contractors.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering; Master’s preferred.
- 7+ years hands-on programming capabilities in Java and/or Go Lang.
- Track record in building large, horizontally scalable distributed systems.
- Intimate knowledge of different cloud providers and services, especially AWS and GCP.
- Experience building large customer-facing applications.
- Successful experience with agile development and continuous integration processes.
- Ad tech industry experience preferred.
LIFE AT VIANT
- Investing in our employee’s professional growth is important to us, but so is investing in their well-being. Viant was voted one of the best places to work with benefits like fully paid health insurance, paid parental leave and unlimited PTO.
Salary range: $180,100 - $250,000 a year. In accordance with California law, the range provided is Viant’s reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. Final title and compensation will be based on factors including work experience and education.
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About Viant
Viant Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: DSP) is a leader in CTV and AI-powered programmatic advertising, dedicated to driving innovation in digital marketing. Viant’s omnichannel platform built for CTV allows marketers to plan, execute and measure their campaigns with unmatched precision and efficiency. ViantAI is building the future of autonomous advertising solutions. Viant was awarded Best AI-Powered Advertising Solution, Best Demand-Side Platform by MarTech Breakthrough, Great Place to Work certification and the BI Group’s AI Excellence Award. Learn more at viantinc.com.
Viant is an equal opportunity employer. Viant prohibits unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, sex, gender identity or expression, age, military status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Viant also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics.
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