Software Engineer Manager, Retail Media/AdTech (Remote)
Posted 2025-04-06Req121666
Position Purpose
Orange Apron Media empowers brands to connect with our vast customer base, driving impactful marketing campaigns and generating substantial revenue. We are seeking a passionate and results-driven Software Engineering Manager to lead and grow our core platform, propelling us to the next level of success.
As a Software Engineer Manager, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the products we create and help grow the next generation of engineering talent. You will ensure to build a scalable, robust, and reliable core platform that delivers exceptional performance and user experience.
In addition, you will be given the chance to grow your management experience by contributing to The Home Depot's Orange Apron Media strategy and roadmap.
Key Focus areas:Â Â
 Platform Modernization & Scalability: Continuously iterate and modernize the platform to support increasing ad load and scale. This includes architecture improvements, performance optimization, and adoption of cutting-edge technologies.
 NextGen Platform Development: Establish the foundation for a next-generation platform that will power our future growth, actively participate in defining the architecture, features, and functionalities.
 Support & Maintenance: Lead a dedicated support team responsible for ensuring smooth operation and timely resolution of issues across in core platform
 Transparency & Performance Monitoring: Define and monitor SLAs/SLOs, providing clear visibility into platform performance and proactively addressing any deviations from set standards.
 Talent Development & Leadership: Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of highly skilled engineers, fostering a collaborative and results-oriented environment.
 Strategic Planning & Roadmap Development: Define and execute the strategic roadmap for the NextGen platform 2.0, aiming to achieve at least 2x growth in key metrics.
Key Responsibilities
30% Delivery & Execution:
 Collaborates and pairs with product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
 Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
 Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases
 Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms
 Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
 Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment
 Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
 Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
 Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office
10% Support & Enablement:
 Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams
 Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
 Provides application support for software running in production
 Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team
50% People:
 Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers
 Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team
 Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback
 Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests
 Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
 Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams
 Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
10% Learning:
 Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
 Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems
Direct Manager/Direct Reports
 Typically reports to the Software Engineer Sr. Manager, Technology Director or Sr. Director.
Travel Requirements
 Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
Physical Requirements
 Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Working Conditions
 Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications
 Must be eighteen years of age or older.
 Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
 Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)
 Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
Preferred Qualifications
 5-7 years of relevant work experience.
 Experience working with Retail Media Networks
 Experience in building and supporting an AdTech platform and delivering capabilities including DSP, SSP, and Ad Servers, for self-service advertising needs
 Experience with cloud computing platforms such as GCP or AWS or Azure, including serverless computing, containerization, and microservices.
 Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
 Proven ability to effectively manage and lead a team of engineers, fostering a collaborative and results-oriented culture.
 Experience in guiding more junior team members through Software Engineering fundamentals in a professional setting.
 Ability to translate high level strategy to tactical execution
 Mastery in stakeholder and vendor relationship management
 Mastery in delivery management and sustainable/reliable system delivery
 Proficient in modern product development processes and pipelines
 Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
 Proficient in effective system monitoring and log analysis techniques
 Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
Minimum Education
 The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Preferred Education
 No additional education
Minimum Years Of Work Experience
 5
Preferred Years Of Work Experience
 No additional years of experience
Minimum Leadership Experience
 None
Preferred Leadership Experience
 None
Certifications
 None
Competencies
 Attracts Top Talent: Attracting and selecting the best talent to meet current and future business needs
 Balances Stakeholders: Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders
 Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals
 Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals
 Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
 Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
 Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals
 Drives Engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives
 Drives Vision and Purpose: Painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action
 Manages Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
 Organizational Savvy: Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics
 Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations
The application window is anticipated to be closed on October 23, 2024
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