Engineering Director

Summary

Join Place Exchange, a company transforming the out-of-home (OOH) advertising channel, as a Senior Director of Engineering. Lead and grow a team focused on connecting OOH advertising assets with programmatic ad tech platforms. This role demands strong leadership, technical expertise, and a vision for building and optimizing engineering practices. You will balance product delivery and technical implementation, staff development, and partner management. The position requires extensive experience in full-stack software engineering, team management, and working with distributed systems. Place Exchange offers a dynamic startup culture with comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• 10+ years of full-stack software engineering experience with a track record of building and operating distributed systems at scale
• 4+ years of experience managing multiple teams and individuals
• Experience managing products and teams across multiple locations/timezones
• Strong capabilities of observation, analysis, synthesis
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience shepherding early-stage products through multiple iterations
• Passion and expertise in agile engineering practices and building DevOps culture
• Proven experience working with customers and stakeholders at the highest level
• BA/BS in Computer Science/Engineering, Mathematics, or related fields

Responsibilities

• Work with Product and executive stakeholders to build market-leading products
• Implement product features, driving technical and quality practices
• Implement and/or build tools to improve Testing, Deployment, Automation
• Develop and evangelize standards for coding, data, tooling, operations
• Recruit, retain, and grow outstanding engineering talent
• Proactively identify skill and experience needs, recruiting or developing staff to fill
• Work with each engineer, to provide continuous feedback, and support growth
• Partner Evangelism, Integration, Testing, and Support
• Drive creation of appropriate technical documentation
• Drive processes for discovering, managing, and resolving issues and incidents
• Learn and understand Place Exchange’s corporate, departmental and team goals
• Gain a good understanding of the Place Exchange career ladder and resources available for a manager
• Work with the Product team to have a clear understanding of the product roadmap
• Identify and incorporate tools needed for working on the transaction processing platform
• Diagnose and troubleshoot production application issues
• Meet the team and schedule 1:1s with direct reports
• Meet the stakeholders and schedule 1:1s with business counterparts
• Gain a good understanding of the Place Exchange landscape
• Create/manage lightweight processes to help the teams function better
• Pair with team members on committed initiatives
• Work collaboratively with other engineering teams and incorporate best practices
• Work with stakeholders and formulate delivery plans for key initiatives
• Provide technical leadership in the development team
• Promote and drive innovation in technologies, processes, and tools
• Deliver projects on time and budget, ensuring quality standards are met
• Mentor and develop team members, provide constructive feedback on design and code quality and build an inclusive culture with high performing teams
• Baseline career status and trajectory for direct reports and start thinking about avenues of career growth
• Help define and enforce development practices, including unit tests and code reviews
• Develop a deep understanding of the business environment and strategy

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with offshore teams
• Experience working with demand side platforms (DSP) and supply side platforms (SSP)

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Commuter benefits
• 401k with match
• Equity incentives
• Generous time off: 20 PTO days, sick days, and Summer Fridays
• Monthly cell phone and annual work-from-home stipends
• Place Exchange Gives Back program with charity donation matching
• Flexible hybrid work environment (2 days in office, 3 days remote/from home, though we are currently completely remote)
• Opportunity to grow, have fun and be part of a fast-growing company changing the face of an industry
• Direct access to work with and learn from an experienced management team, passionate about the business and the development of our employees
• Startup culture, focused on developing innovative solutions at a fast pace
• Opportunity to own meaningful work streams and drive real impact for the business