Software Engineering Manager

Digital Turbine•Durham, CA

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Digital Turbine, we make mobile advertising experiences more meaningful and rewarding for users, app publishers, and advertisers — intelligently connecting people in more ways, across more devices. We provide app publishers and advertisers with powerful ads and experiences that captivate consumers, fuel performance, and help telecoms and OEMs supercharge awareness, acquisition, and monetization. In a rapidly evolving industry, we are constantly innovating and creating better paths of discovery to connect consumers, publishers, and advertisers across the mobile ecosystem. Digital Turbine runs on small, autonomous pods that own outcomes and roadmaps end-to-end. We hire leaders who balance strong technical judgment with people-first management: leaders who can guide team execution, foster engineering excellence, and hire and grow top talent without getting bogged down in language-specific dogma. As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead full-stack engineering pods responsible for building the product surfaces that bring our marketplace together—campaign management, unified dashboards, audience tooling, and low-latency supply/demand APIs. You will partner directly with Product Management, Design, and Engineering Directors to align roadmaps, drive high-throughput backend architecture, and maintain operational health across a polyglot stack. While this is primarily a people and delivery leadership role, a strong background in low-latency systems, algorithmic problem-solving, and scalable web surfaces is essential for technical coaching and system design oversight.

Requirements

2+ years of direct people management experience leading software engineering teams, coupled with 8+ years of hands-on software development experience building high-scale, production platforms.
Strong background in full-stack architecture, with a heavy emphasis on distributed back-end systems, API design, data modeling, and low-latency performance.
Familiarity with polyglot environments (e.g., TypeScript/React on the front end; Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, or C++ on the back end).
Proven track record in mentoring senior/staff engineers, navigating complex technical trade-offs, and resolving cross-pod dependencies.
Deep comfort with modern Agile methodologies, CI/CD practices, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), and operational metrics (SLAs, SLOs, system health).
Fits an M3 Manager level—demonstrating capability in managing operational/tactical execution, influencing pod-level strategy, and owning performance and career growth for direct reports.

Nice To Haves

Experience in AdTech, high-throughput marketplaces, or data-intensive dashboard surfaces.
Background managing distributed/remote teams across international time zones (US, Europe, Israel).
Experience integrating data pipelines, machine learning, or BI tools into product workflows.

Responsibilities

Direct-manage a team of Senior, Mid-level and Junior Full Stack Engineers across front-end, back-end, and data domains. Conduct 1:1s, guide career development, handle performance management, and foster an inclusive, high-ownership engineering culture.
Partner with Product Leads to translate business goals into clear technical roadmaps, scoping, and sprint execution. Ensure pods consistently deliver robust, reliable product surfaces on time.
Drive high architectural and quality standards across the team. Coach engineers on API design, service scalability, pushing heavy computational logic to backend services, and front-end performance.
Lead recruitment efforts to scale the pod, recruiting diverse, top-tier engineering talent and building out sustainable team onboarding processes.
Ensure overall health, observability, and performance of services owned by your pods. Drive incident management, post-mortems, and equitable on-call practices.
Serve as the primary engineering advocate for your pods, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders and aligning pod delivery with Digital Turbine's broader architecture and business strategy.