Engineering Lead Manager

Index ExchangeToronto, ON

About The Position

At Index Exchange, we’re reinventing how digital advertising works—at scale. As a global advertising supply-side platform, we empower the world’s leading media owners and marketers to thrive in a programmatic, privacy-first ecosystem. We’re a proud industry pioneer with over 20 years of experience accelerating the ad technology evolution. Our proprietary tech is trusted by some of the world’s largest brands and media owners and plays a crucial role in keeping the internet open, accessible, and largely free. We process more than 700 billion real-time auctions every day with ultra-low latency. Our platform is vertically integrated from servers to networks and runs primarily on our own metal and cloud infrastructure. This end-to-end infrastructure is designed to provide both stability and agility, enabling us to adapt quickly as the market evolves. At the core of it all is our engineering-first culture. Our engineers tackle internet-scale problems across tight-knit, global teams. From moving petabytes of data and optimizing with AI to making real-time infrastructure decisions, Indexers have the agency and influence to shape the future of advertising. We move fast, build thoughtfully, and stay grounded in our core values. We are seeking an experienced Engineering Lead Manager with a strong background to lead and develop a high-performance team of engineers. The ideal candidate is an experienced developer who is eager to demonstrate leadership and technical acumen by offering guidance, mentorship, and direction to our teams. For over 20 years, IX has been known as the change agents of digital advertising – innovators who help shape how our industry reacts to new challenges and shifts in the market. As a result, we’ve been able to partner with some of the most prominent players in the media industry including Hearst, Disney, and Meredith Corporation among many others.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering skills, including proficiency in programming languages such as Golang, Java, C#
  • Demonstrable expertise in complex back-end systems. Experience in designing, developing and testing high quality services
  • Exceptional leadership and team-building skills with a track record of developing high-performing teams with at least 2 years of experience in that role.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to think differently, and an understanding that compromise, negotiation and practicality are important qualities
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead a world-class team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability.
  • Provide mentorship, guidance, and professional development opportunities to team members.
  • Possess a deep understanding within agile environments, with a focus on working collaboratively with product, marketing, and sales.
  • Collaborate with software engineering teams to implement best practices in the software development life cycle, including designing scalable and resilient systems.
  • Develop and maintain meaningful performance metrics and reporting mechanisms to track the health and reliability of our systems.
  • Use data-driven insights to guide decision-making and triaging.
  • Act as a technical leader on projects, architecting the design of projects to meet the needs of the business outcome, and to align with existing architectural vision.
  • Collaborate with subject matter experts and with a network of peers to ensure on-time quality delivery.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents
  • Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules
  • Competitive retirement matching plans
  • Equity packages
  • Generous parental leave available to birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents
  • Annual well-being allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities
  • Commuter benefits and discounts, where available
  • Employee assistance program
  • Mental health first aid program that provides an in-the-moment point of contact and reassurance
  • One day of volunteer time off per year and a donation-matching program
  • Monthly town halls and regular community-led team events
  • Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning
  • A workplace that supports a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment
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