Engineering Manager, Publisher Advertising Interfaces

About the Team

At Sovrn, the Exchange Interfaces team is responsible for the digital advertising portion of our publisher facing web portal. In this role, you’ll spend less time writing code, but remain engaged in technical deliverables. You’ll be responsible for clarifying deliverables, identifying bottlenecks in the process, and eliminating roadblocks for your team so they can achieve more than they thought was possible. We believe in dedication, passion, and personality.  We are seeking a leader who can manage diverse, talented, and motivated engineers while balancing personnel challenges with business requirements. 

About the Job

The Sovrn Exchange Interfaces team is a relatively new, tight-knit team, comprised of equal parts Sovrn veterans and relative newcomers to the company. The team has a great culture and will be well-served by a leader who can direct and refine their energies and collaborations–in concert with your product manager–toward maximum customer value. 

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Engineering management and mentorship of a full-stack team of 4, with occasional help from contractors
• Responsible for hiring, on-boarding, and mentoring a diverse team of engineers when the team is ready to grow
• Understand and communicate the business domain, and how it affects requirement and implementation details
• Develop, execute on, and influence the product roadmap, ensuring high quality web applications and APIs
• Track and manage key engineering metrics such as: team morale, product quality, cycle time, and team velocity
• Work closely with Product Management and Creative teams to design new features and empower the engineering teams to develop them
• Improve code quality and foster a culture of strong engineering design, delivery and quality
• Work with cross-functional teams and across other business verticals to translate functional requirements into technical design and implementations
• Work with other engineering leaders to continuously improve the overall development processes
• Break down a full project plan into incremental deliveries, and track the team’s work against those steps.

About You

You are an empathic leader, excellent communicator, strong on program management and organizing a diverse team. You are engaging and possess strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to foster great collaboration. You’re comfortable working with a wide variety of people, and respect the perspectives of those that disagree with you. Above all, you love learning, and sharing what you know.

The successful candidate will have: 

• 3+ years of engineering management experience
• Experience bringing multiple significant features from concept to production with a modern Javascript framework (React,Vue, Angular) in a SaaS application
• Demonstrated experience working with design teams to smooth design-developer hand-off and iteration
• Experience with Scrum and Agile development processes
• Experience with developing or delivering web services, applications, and API’s
• Experience driving operational maturity (on-call, alerting, monitoring)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field; or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated success in coaching and mentoring others

Bonus Points

• Experience with Material UI
• Experience with Java, or any JVM language
• Experience with Rust
• Experience with Apache Pinot

Position Reports to: Director of Engineering, Advertising Exchange

We understand that no candidate is perfectly qualified for any job. Experience comes in different forms; many skills are transferable; and passion goes a long way. Even more important than your resume is a clear demonstration of accountability impact, and the ability to thrive in a fluid and collaborative environment. We expect you to learn new things in this role, and we encourage you to apply if your experience is close to what we're looking for.

About Sovrn

Publishers create the content the world depends on for education, entertainment, and commerce. Sovrn provides products and services to tens of thousands of online publishers to help them grow, operate their business, understand their readership, and manage consumer data. Sovrn is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado with offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. 

With 10,000 customers deploying one or more products across 30,000 websites, Sovrn reaches 200M consumers across more than 3.5B pageviews everyday. Sovrn has been a leader in online publisher technology since its founding, and has been recognized by IAB, JICWEBS, and TAG for its role in combating advertising fraud and promoting pro-transparency initiatives. Sovrn is dedicated to helping content creators do more of what they love, and less of what they don’t.

Sovrn Core Values: Candid, Customer Empathy, Learning, Scrappy, Second Order Thinking

Compensation and Benefits

In accordance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the approximate compensation range for this role in Boulder, Colorado is $170,000 to $185,000, including base salary and any related bonuses or commissions. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate's relevant work experience, skills and certifications.

Sovrn offers a full slate of benefits from competitive salaries, stock options, medical, dental and vision coverage, short and long term disability, life insurance,11 paid holidays, flexible vacation, commuter benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, and a paid parental leave program.

Equal Opportunity Employer 

Sovrn is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, parental or pregnancy status, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations will be made to meet the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act and will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. 

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