Engineering Manager - Platform team

ABOUT CAPTIFY

Captify is the leading Search Intelligence Platform for the open web and the largest independent holder of first-party search data outside of the walled gardens, connecting the real-time searches from over 2 billion devices globally. Its Search Intelligence technology powers omnichannel programmatic advertising and real-time insights for the world’s biggest brands, such as Disney, Unilever, eBay, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, Nestlé, GSK, Uber, Mars, P&G, Sony and Toyota—without reliance on third-party cookies. Captify brings brands more customers, publishers greater yield and consumers the most relevant digital experiences.

OUR CULTURE AND VALUES:

Here at Captify we are proud of our culture - It’s contagious. Pass it on. Step inside any of our global offices and one thing that is blissfully obvious is that while we’re putting blood, sweat and tears into disrupting the Search game, we’re having a seriously good time doing it. We’ve travelled the world together, enjoyed Captify Festivals, parties and our famous events across every market. We always take time to stop to celebrate milestones and wins. We live by our core values:

• Building this together
• Give a shit
• Fail fast to succeed faster
• Unlimited potential

Find out more about our culture here: https://careers.captify.co.uk/

OVERVIEW

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Platform Team. The role will lead the charge on our transformation to decentralised infrastructure fully managed through IaC. Captify ingests billions of search events every month, and the platform team allows our product and analytics teams to create value fast through centralised services, tooling, code patterns and setting company-wide best practices. This is an opportunity to innovate and develop a platform stack which enables the amazing work that our product teams do building out our ML, data and application products. Working closely with our architect and Technical Product Manager, the successful candidate will be comfortable collaborating with the product teams to design the most effective systems, not afraid to take risks and to push the boundaries, and able to lead both their team as well as indirectly across the organisation. Captify’s world-class engineers, semantic specialists and product teams are building the future of AdTech. As part of our Engineering Team you will play a key part in developing our offering. We work in small cross-functional teams of developers who focus on a particular product area and we encourage people to rotate across teams. Our product teams are underpinned and enabled by our Platform Team. Our company values are important to us and influence how we work together. With exciting projects, technologies and services in the pipeline now is a great time to be part of our journey.

ABOUT YOU

You will be a dedicated and passionate technical manager who can lead distributed teams across multiple locations. You will bring a thorough understanding of current best practice in Devops, Data Engineering, Data Architecture, and running an infrastructure platform as an internal product. We’d love it if you’ve gained an understanding in the advertising technology ecosystem. You will have the experience to manage, develop and grow engineers and team leads. You will be service-focused and understand how the technical strategy of your team supports the company’s product strategy. Your planning will be biased towards rapid feedback cycles, safe-to-fail experiments and team autonomy.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

What you’ll be doing:

• You will help architect and build an innovative infrastructure platform to enable engineering teams to leverage Captify’s data assets.
• You will build and lead a team of Platform Data Engineers and Platform Devops Engineers.
• You will experiment with new tools and technologies to produce cutting-edge solutions to business and engineering problems.
• You will lead a cross-functional, results-oriented team.
• You will enable a culture of improvement and innovation in practices, process and technology.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

Who you’ll be working with:

• VP Technology (hiring manager)
• VP Product
• Architect
• Engineering Team Leads
• Platform Team engineers (reports)

REQUIREMENTS

What you need to be successful:

• Have experience of running a platform team.
• Have experience of building and leading a distributed team.
• Be passionate about internal quality, good code and effective technical practice.
• Know our tech stack: Terraform, Python, Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes, Databricks and AWS services.

YOU WILL ENJOY

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays + your birthday + volunteer day.
• Regular shutdown days, including the festive period.
• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office.
• Free hot lunch on Tuesday and Thursday.
• UK Private Healthcare Plan with AXA.
• Access to SPILL - instant therapy support.
• Access to Mental Health First Aiders.
• Sport and wellbeing activities; yoga and softball.
• Financial well-being support.
• Work from any Captify office in the world.
• Capti-Family Benefits: including Child Nursery Savings.
• UK Pension plan.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Eyecare vouchers.
• Free breakfast.
• Beer, bubbles and non-alcoholic alternatives every Thursday at the Captify Bar.
• Dog-friendly office.
• Access to Capti-Academy - Captify's bespoke Learning platform.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

You are welcome at Captify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what your search history says about you. At Captify, equality is at the core of our culture and we are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. We don’t want you to fit in with our culture, we want you to add to our culture.