Job details
Job type full-time number of hires for this role 1
Qualifications
Using aws’s cloud hosting for server-side capabilities: 2 years (required)
Technical team leadership: 6 years (required)
Digital ad servers, ssps, or ad exchanges: 2 years (required)
Ruby on rails: 2 years (preferred)
Full job description
Do you want to get a foot in the door at an online advertising and media company that has seen tremendous growth? do you want to work in the world of online video; one of the fastest growing advertising formats in the world? then playwire is the place for you…
Playwire is a full-service digital innovation partner that leverages online advertising and proprietary technologies to build publishing brands in the gaming and entertainment verticals.
To keep pace with our explosive growth, playwire seeks a talented professional to join our team as our first vp of cloud engineeringPlaywire deploys its own cloud-based server-side code for a variety of essential functions, from the configuration of our client-side ad products, to critical reporting systems used both by employees and customersWe are increasingly responsible for the administration and modification of third-party systems as well; our server-side horizons are expanding! as our server-side capabilities expand, we need a thoughtful, experienced leader to organize our server-side efforts across a wide range of products and use cases, crafting a coherent strategy for scaling and management.
The successful candidate will be a domain expert who can discover requirements, evaluate technologies, deeply understand the complexities of our tech and ad stack, and craft a vision for server-side excellence - then execute upon itThe candidate should also be a bridge between the past and the future: a past focused on the deployment of large servers that, while being cloud-based and capable of autoscaling, were a far cry from modern serverless microservice architectures; a past that might include a careful transition to those contemporary architectures.
Just as important, though, is leadership capabilitiesThis is a leadership role; you’ll manage and lead server-side engineers in their development of our architecture and product, but also work closely with many other teams to communicate capabilities, understand issues, and coordinate with other leaders to rapidly execute on projects that cross teamsYou also contribute to the maturity of the entire development team as we continue our evolution from a small, scrappy group to a professional organization that is agile without being undisciplined.
Finally, advertising is in our dna at playwire, and that includes this roleWe seek a candidate with knowledge of the ways in which servers are involved in the requesting, selection, and delivery of digital advertising: ad servers, ssps, dsps, ad exchanges, and so on, plus the considerations of latency, geography, privacy, and targeting that all factor into successful ad monetization.
This position requires full-time employment; availability at our main office in boca raton, fl is preferred, but remote work is a possibility.
Essential functions:
Own our server infrastructure, making sure it is durable, flexible, and scalable.
Manage the roadmapping and execution of our server-side technical strategy.
Provide hands-on leadership of the server-side engineering team, with a willingness to get your hands dirty to show your team members how it’s done.
Use your expertise to evaluate technologies and architectures, and to establish best practices for server-side engineering.
Tie together technical and advertising knowledge to make technology and architecture decisions that best fit the adtech industry and playwire’s role within it.
Work closely with multiple teams, but most importantly our yield ops, ops, creative, and product teams, to understand the company’s technology needs and craft the needed solutions, as well as to communicate technical challenges to those teams and come up with solutions.
Work closely with other technology leaders, most particularly in the execution of products and features that operate across multiple parts of our stack.
Communicate your progress to senior management, especially the cto.
Lead the hiring of additional server-side engineers for the team, while also integrating contracted resources.
Understand resources and scheduling requirements, and work with project management to meet our project needs.
Required qualifications:
7+ years managing high-performing technical teams in an environment of rapid development and company growth.
3+ years experience specifically managing teams focused on online technology, with a significant cloud-based server component to your tech stack.
Experience working in a team using agile development and project management practices.
Experience with server-side digital advertising technologies and concepts.
Demonstrable expertise designing and building server-side systems.
Demonstrable experience with ruby on rails and at least one other common language (and, potentially, framework) used for server-side development.
Demonstrable experience using modern cloud-based technologies, particularly server-less computing and microservices architectures, to create next-gen platforms.
Demonstrable experience using test-driven development and automated testing suites to help maintain server-side code.
Demonstrable experience building products that have been forced to scale.
Ability to shift between rapid prototyping to durable development as the situation demands.
Demonstrable experience tying together multiple services and data sources, breaking apart functional components in the pursuit of improved reliability and monitoring.
Nice-to-haves:
Experience using aws’s cloud hosting for server-side capabilities.
Experience with digital ad servers, ssps, or ad exchanges.
Experience with digital advertising units, terminology and standards.
Experience interacting with big data technologies and services.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this jobDuties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Job type: full-time
Benefits:
401(k)
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Paid time off
Vision insurance
Schedule:
Monday to friday
Experience:
Using aws’s cloud hosting for server-side capabilities: 2 years (required)
Technical team leadership: 6 years (required)
Digital ad servers, ssps, or ad exchanges: 2 years (required)
Ruby on rails: 2 years (preferred)
Work location:
Fully remote
Work remotely:
Temporarily due to covid-19
Work location: remote
