Software Development Manager

Company: Mediaocean--
Location: Chicago
Posted on: April 10, 2021

Job Description:

Mediaocean is the mission-critical platform for omnichannel advertising. Processing $150 billion in annual media spend, Mediaocean provides foundational software to connect brands, agencies, media, technology, and data. With AI and machine learning technology to control marketing investments and optimize business outcomes, Mediaocean enables end-to-end management of campaigns from planning, buying, and selling to analysis, invoices, and payments. Mediaocean employs 1,200 people across 20 global offices and is part of the Vista Equity Partners portfolio. Job Description ABOUT THE ROLE:-- Our engineering organization is a full stack team of experts in frontend, backend, product and design. We care deeply about our stack and tools, focusing on the best to get the job done. Performance is incredibly important to us, as we often need to surface extremely large datasets to our users. We are a team that values continuous learning, curiosity, clear communication, deep self-motivation and are committed to building an inclusive environment for everyone.-- As--a--manager,--you will be responsible--for--helping to build out and manage--a team of--3-5--engineers. You will initially--focus on becoming literate in our stack and contributing directly to the codebase. As your team continues to grow, direct contributions will become less of a focus,--and you will instead focus more and more on high-level product and organizational decisions--while you mentor your growing team.-- Your focus will be on--integrating multiple ads publishers--(e.g., Facebook, Twitter) into--a--single--integrated stack,--while--layering in--intelligence--to help--our--customers drive the best business outcomes.--As manager on the team, you will be responsible for helping our--software--engineers--craft the future of our service-----both on the frontend interfaces,--and the backend APIs that--support it. You will be working closely with people across engineering, product, and design to help develop an amazing experience for our agency & brand customers.-- KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:-- Lead a team as they build, test and ship new user facing code in modern tools like React, ES6,--Apollo,--GraphQL,--Redux, Jest and Webpack-- Lead a team to design highly performant and tested APIs and internal services using tools like Python, Celery, Kubernetes, MySQL, Mongo and Redis-- Guide team members in making sound technical--decisions--while ensuring roadmap deadline targets are completed reliably and with high quality-- Mentor and motivate others in building a culture of collaboration and--positivity-- Drive strategic initiatives for your team-- Lead a team to create trustworthy user experiences by building products that are simple, easy to understand, performant and reliable-- Work with other engineers, product managers, designers and leadership to turn our vision into a concrete roadmap every quarter-- Articulate long term vision for maintaining and scaling our systems-- Leverage your experience with a broad range of technology stacks, platforms and workflow tools to do your best work and teach others to do the same-- REQUIRED BACKGROUND AND SKILLS-- Hands on experience leading and mentoring a team-- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering,--Math--or similar demonstrated professional experience with strong computer science fundamentals-- You've at least--5--years of professional experience-- You've architected, built, scaled, and maintained production services-- You've designed, built and shipped modern, component-based user interfaces-- You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your users-- You've worked with modern Python and large backend services using technologies such as Flask--

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