Engineering Team Leader - Full Stack / Web Performance

Location: Poland

We are:

RTB House is a global company that provides state-of-the-art marketing technologies for top brands and agencies worldwide. Our proprietary ad-buying engine is the first in the world to be powered entirely by Deep Learning algorithms, enabling advertisers to achieve outstanding results and meet their goals at every stage of the funnel.

The Bidding Platform organization is the core of the RTB business, processing over 20 million requests per second to participate in real-time auctions and display advertisements to customers from 90+ countries. The Ad Display Team, which the job advert relates to, will be a new team seating within the Bidding Platform, and will focus on ensuring the seamless, high-quality, and reliable display of our advertisements. The team aims to become a crucial, cross-functional group of strong Frontend/Full stack Developers and Backend Engineers with the necessary DevOps fluency to ensure team autonomy in building and maintaining solutions. 

You will:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of talented Frontend/Full Stack and Backend engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and high code quality.
• Serve as a Full Stack tech-leader (often hands-on), contributing to the design and development of key architectures and full stack solutions that support various platforms (Web, Mobile, CTV).
• Define and execute the team's charter, focusing on end-to-end customer interactions and the reliable display of ads globally.
• Develop and oversee state-of-the-art observability systems for the Ad Display platform, tracking crucial metrics like reliability, viewability, latency, and providing deep debugging insights for ad creation teams.
• Provide governance for cross-team ad rollout, including defining best practices and tooling for rigorous testing and deployment strategies (A/B testing, Canary deployments).
• Lead complex technical projects at massive scale, ensuring our solutions can handle millions of requests and maintain high performance worldwide.
• Collaborate intensely with a Staff Frontend Engineer, stakeholders from Ads layouts creation teams (designers, graphic specialists), and the core Bidding Platform backend teams.

Desired experience:

• 2+ years in a technical leadership role (Team Lead / Engineering Manager).
• 10+ years in hands-on Full Stack software engineering, with significant experience across frontend, backend, and with some understanding of DevOps aspects.
• Expertise in Web frontends creation and architecture.
• Experience with mobile application development (native or hybrid).
• Proven strong analytical thinking and data-driven approach to decision-making and performance tuning.
• Extensive experience with web performance measures and optimization at scale.

Nice to have:

• Experience with leading complex technical projects operating at large scale (millions of users/requests).
• Experience in the AdTech/Real Time Bidding space.

Selected technologies used:

• You will have the autonomy to select the best tools for the job, with the current stack including modern technologies across JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, Java.

We offer:

• Projects focused on high code quality – solid code reviews are our standard;
• Collaboration within an interdisciplinary, self-sufficient team including: DevOps (ensuring a great Developer Experience), database experts, backend developers, product designers, and QA engineers;
• Hardware and software tailored to your preferences – e.g. MacBook, AI tool licenses;
• Access to modern technologies and the opportunity to apply them in large-scale, high-impact projects;
• Flexible working conditions – no core hours, fully remote cooperation.

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