Manager Engineering

  • Full-time
  • Department: General Development

Company Description

PubMatic is a digital advertising technology company for premium content creators. The PubMatic platform empowers independent app developers and publishers to control and maximize their digital advertising businesses. PubMatic’s publisher-first approach enables advertisers to maximize ROI by reaching and engaging their target audiences in brand-safe, premium environments across ad formats and devices. 

Since 2006, PubMatic has created an efficient, global infrastructure and remains at the forefront of programmatic innovation.  Headquartered in Redwood City, California, PubMatic operates 13 offices and nine data centers worldwide

Job Description

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, the Manager Engineering will work closely with other functional leaders in the company such as business, support, product management, marketing and others. They will be responsible for product development activities.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide vision and leadership for existing and emerging product and application technologies through an understanding of customer and business needs
  • Manage a team of 15-20  engineers
  • Cultivate sustained innovation to deliver exceptional products to customers
  • Provide project management, technical direction and guidance for all product development
  • Ensure the optimal application of current technology, engineering resources, outsourced design services and project contractors to meet product development and/or customer requirements
  • Ensure product requirements are properly documented and understood by all stake holders early in the development
  • Ensure timely and top quality product delivery
  • Ensure that the end product is fully and correctly defined and documented
  • Ensure implementation/continuous improvement of formal processes to support product development activities
  • Drive the architecture/design decisions needed to achieve cost-effective and high performance results
  • Provide guidance to the team for technical escalations for escalations that come to the engineering
  • Oversee, coordinate and manage multiple product development projects
  • Foster engineering’s “best practices” for the development of high-quality products
  • Recruit, motivate and empower employees, assign and direct their activities.

Required Skills:

  • The willingness and experience to work hands-on is most important for this role
  • Candidates should have worked on at least one of the following domains as his main job for a continuous period of 2 years in the past 4 years – online advertising, data analytics, e-commerce, Web 2.0, Web Services, Scalability/performance, etc.
  • Candidates should have experience in working on one or more of the following – scalable web applications, high performance applications, ad-optimization and auctioning, Web 2.0, algorithms and Web Services.
  • Experience in handling engineering escalations from customers will be preferred
  • Demonstrated ability to motivate and innovate, excellent team building and leadership skills
  • Able to communicate clearly and effectively with all levels
  • Strong operational and project management skills in a product development environment
  • Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Engineering
  • Recent experience in working with Startups is highly preferred.

 

Qualifications

  • The willingness and experience to work hands-on is most important for this role
  • Candidates should have worked on at least one of the following domains as his main job for a continuous period of 2 years in the past 4 years – online advertising, data analytics, e-commerce, Web 2.0, Web Services, Scalability/performance, etc.
  • Candidates should have experience in working on one or more of the following – scalable web applications, high performance applications, ad-optimization and auctioning, Web 2.0, algorithms and Web Services.
  • Experience in handling engineering escalations from customers will be preferred
  • Demonstrated ability to motivate and innovate, excellent team building and leadership skills
  • Able to communicate clearly and effectively with all levels
  • Strong operational and project management skills in a product development environment
  • Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Engineering
  • Recent experience in working with Startups is highly preferred.
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Additional Information

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