O pozici
Engineering Manager: Go Backend
Assertive Yield is a fast-growing optimization platform empowering publishers and SSPs to drive more revenue through intelligent auction dynamics, traffic shaping, analytics, and real-time decisioning.
Co budeš dělat
- Define and execute the engineering strategy, ensuring alignment with product and business goals and enabling the team to deliver effectively at scale
- Partner with the VP Technology and VP Product to translate roadmap priorities into executable engineering plans
- Define and execute the technical strategy for our high-performance, low-latency backend services (Prebid Server, Yield Manager, data ingestion), ensuring scalability and reliability.
- Lead, coach, and grow developers, fostering a culture of accountability, growth, and high performance
- Own org design across the team — headcount planning, team structure, hiring pipelines, and onboarding
- Hold team members accountable for outcomes, addressing underperformance directly and effectively when needed
- Design and continuously improve the systems, processes, and rituals that keep the team aligned, unblocked, and consistently delivering
- Establish clear development KPIs and hold the team accountable for delivery, quality, and velocity metrics
- Identify and remove systemic blockers across products and developers before they become bottlenecks
- Establish clear ownership and decision-making frameworks to ensure alignment and reduce friction
- Drive a culture of technical excellence — code quality, system reliability, scalable architecture, and sound engineering practices
- Build and maintain relationships with key external partners, vendors, and the broader engineering community
- Ensure adoption of modern Go best practices, focusing on performance, concurrency patterns, and microservices architecture
- Oversee key infrastructure and migration efforts (e.g., Kubernetes, ClickHouse backups), collaborating with engineers to mitigate single points of failure and production risks.
Koho hledáme
- 3+ years of professional experience writing production-grade code in Go (Golang) .
- Demonstrated technical credibility in building and maintaining high-performance, low-latency distributed systems .
- 10+ years in software engineering, with 4+ years leading engineering managers or senior technical leaders
- Technically credible and able to earn trust with senior engineers
- Strong systems thinker — you design processes, team structures, and feedback loops that outlast you
- Demonstrated ability to build and retain high-performing engineering teams across distributed or remote environments
- Experience setting technical strategy for a core platform component, such as a high-volume ad server or data ingestion pipeline.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making structural decisions with incomplete information
- Strong communicator who can bridge the gap between engineering depth and executive-level conversations
- Background in adtech, martech, or data-intensive platform environments is a strong plus
- Located in Europe
Benefity
- Innovative and dynamic environment
- Opportunities to grow
- Fully remote, full-time, and flexible working hours
- A fun, smart, and diverse team
- Competitive compensation package
