Survatra is hiring a
Senior Manager, Engineering

Summary

Upwave is a leading analytics software platform that provides brands, agencies, and media partners with a unified solution to measure brand advertising investment across TV, CTV, digital, social, and cross-channel campaigns. The company's mission is to prove the value of brand advertising by using data science. As Senior Manager of Engineering, you will lead the software engineering team, partner with product leadership, set a high bar for engineering excellence, inspire the team, drive continuous improvement, and grow the team. Upwave is backed by leading venture investors and MarTech founders & CEOs.

Requirements

• You are a seasoned leader with a track record of managing high-performing teams to deliver valuable, production-grade SaaS and/or enterprise software at scale
• You are a curious and pragmatic technologist who enjoys digging into complex systems to understand them at both a high level and deep in the details
• You are a systems thinker who has the awareness and finesse to drive change in human organizations while caring for the individuals involved
• You are an excellent communicator. You know that what matters is what they heard, not what you said
• You’re humble. You understand you’re here to make the team successful, not to tell people what to do

Responsibilities

• Lead our entire software engineering team and development process
• Partner closely with our CTO and product leadership to refine the product roadmap
• Set a high bar for engineering excellence and craftsmanship
• Inspire the team to do their best work and grow their skills
• Drive continuous improvement of our software development lifecycle and engineering processes
• Grow our team by recruiting a diverse set of exceptional talented engineers
• Act as a cultural steward and set a consistently positive example of healthy, effective, inclusive Upwaver behavior

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong command of architectural patterns and engineering practices for building cloud-native, data-intensive applications
• Familiarity with modern web stacks such as React on the frontend, JVM languages like Java, Kotlin, or Groovy on the backend, and Python for AI/ML
• Exposure to adtech/martech ecosystem, marketing measurement approaches (e.g. media mix modeling, attribution), and analytical methods like causal inference and ML

Benefits

• Upwavers treat each other well. We screen for people who are unusually caring, and who want to collaborate and know how to do so effectively and compassionately
• You’ll ship an elegant, intuitive product powered by a fascinating backend platform that processes billions of ad events and powers statistical learning models to drive smarter decisions
• Work with modern tech like cloud data pipelines, in-production generative AI, and causal ML to solve cutting-edge problems at the intersection of adtech, data science and SaaS
• We’re profitable. We’re still looking to grow fast, but being profitable gives us the security to invest in growing sustainably
• Be part of an engineering-first culture that values efficiency and life-work harmony over sheer hours spent in the codebase
• Enjoy the flexibility and diversity of a fully remote (but time-zone aligned) team spanning multiple countries and continents
• Earn a competitive compensation package with strong equity upside in a growing startup