Senior Software Engineering Manager, Ads Solutions
Instacart
Senior Software Engineering Manager, Ads Solutions
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Own the vision and multi-quarter roadmap for Ads Solutions engineering across Sponsored Products, Display Ads, Promotions/Discounts, and Caper Ads, balancing consumer trust, advertiser ROI, and revenue growth.
- Lead, mentor, and scale an organization of 20+ engineers (including one manager); drive recruiting, career development, performance management, and an inclusive, high-ownership culture.
- Raise the technical bar across backend services, mobile and web clients, and the ground-truth eventing/measurement stack; ensure reliability, low latency, privacy, and data quality for ads experiences.
- Drive end-to-end execution in partnership with Ads Serving, ML, Measurement, Ads Manager, and Consumer teams; align on APIs, contracts, experimentation, and success metrics to ship at pace.
- Establish operational excellence with clear OKRs, program planning, on-call quality, incident reviews, and continuous improvement to deliver predictably in a fast-moving environment.
- Partner with Product and Ads Sales on customer development, launch readiness, adoption, and performance; iterate rapidly using experiment results and customer feedback to improve engagement, conversion, and revenue.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing engineers, with a track record leading teams of 15+ and delivering complex consumer-facing products.
- Experience building and operating large-scale consumer or marketplace systems across distributed backend services and at least one client platform (iOS, Android, or web).
- Demonstrated ability to define multi-quarter roadmaps and OKRs and deliver measurable outcomes (e.g., improvements to engagement, conversion, or revenue).
- Experience owning product instrumentation/eventing and experimentation or measurement frameworks used for monetization, optimization, or billing accuracy.
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience with Ads Solutions/Formats such as Sponsored Products, Display, and Promotions, and familiarity with ad serving, ranking, pacing, or optimization systems.
- Knowledge of the ads ecosystem, including auction dynamics, budget and flight management, attribution/measurement, and brand safety.
- Prior leadership of organizations of 20+ engineers across multiple teams in a high-growth, cross-functional environment.
- Technical depth with Ruby on Rails, Swift, Kotlin and/or React.
- Experience partnering with enterprise or retail sales and go-to-market teams to drive product adoption and performance.
Required Skills
- Software engineering
- Engineering management
- Distributed backend services
- iOS, Android, or web client platforms
- Roadmap planning
- OKRs
- Product instrumentation/eventing
- Experimentation frameworks
- Measurement frameworks
- Ruby on Rails
- Swift
- Kotlin
- React
Benefits
- Flex First remote work policy
- Highly market-competitive compensation
- New hire equity grant
- Annual refresh grants
Locations
- United States, United States
Salary
Estimated Salary Rangemedium confidence
450,000 - 750,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Software engineeringintermediate
- Engineering managementintermediate
- Distributed backend servicesintermediate
- iOS, Android, or web client platformsintermediate
- Roadmap planningintermediate
- OKRsintermediate
- Product instrumentation/eventingintermediate
- Experimentation frameworksintermediate
- Measurement frameworksintermediate
- Ruby on Railsintermediate
- Swiftintermediate
- Kotlinintermediate
- Reactintermediate
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. (experience)
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing engineers, with a track record leading teams of 15+ and delivering complex consumer-facing products. (experience)
- Experience building and operating large-scale consumer or marketplace systems across distributed backend services and at least one client platform (iOS, Android, or web). (experience)
- Demonstrated ability to define multi-quarter roadmaps and OKRs and deliver measurable outcomes (e.g., improvements to engagement, conversion, or revenue). (experience)
- Experience owning product instrumentation/eventing and experimentation or measurement frameworks used for monetization, optimization, or billing accuracy. (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience with Ads Solutions/Formats such as Sponsored Products, Display, and Promotions, and familiarity with ad serving, ranking, pacing, or optimization systems. (experience)
- Knowledge of the ads ecosystem, including auction dynamics, budget and flight management, attribution/measurement, and brand safety. (experience)
- Prior leadership of organizations of 20+ engineers across multiple teams in a high-growth, cross-functional environment. (experience)
- Technical depth with Ruby on Rails, Swift, Kotlin and/or React. (experience)
- Experience partnering with enterprise or retail sales and go-to-market teams to drive product adoption and performance. (experience)
Responsibilities
- Own the vision and multi-quarter roadmap for Ads Solutions engineering across Sponsored Products, Display Ads, Promotions/Discounts, and Caper Ads, balancing consumer trust, advertiser ROI, and revenue growth.
- Lead, mentor, and scale an organization of 20+ engineers (including one manager); drive recruiting, career development, performance management, and an inclusive, high-ownership culture.
- Raise the technical bar across backend services, mobile and web clients, and the ground-truth eventing/measurement stack; ensure reliability, low latency, privacy, and data quality for ads experiences.
- Drive end-to-end execution in partnership with Ads Serving, ML, Measurement, Ads Manager, and Consumer teams; align on APIs, contracts, experimentation, and success metrics to ship at pace.
- Establish operational excellence with clear OKRs, program planning, on-call quality, incident reviews, and continuous improvement to deliver predictably in a fast-moving environment.
- Partner with Product and Ads Sales on customer development, launch readiness, adoption, and performance; iterate rapidly using experiment results and customer feedback to improve engagement, conversion, and revenue.
Benefits
- general: Flex First remote work policy
- general: Highly market-competitive compensation
- general: New hire equity grant
- general: Annual refresh grants
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Senior Software Engineering Manager, Ads Solutions
Instacart
Senior Software Engineering Manager, Ads Solutions
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Own the vision and multi-quarter roadmap for Ads Solutions engineering across Sponsored Products, Display Ads, Promotions/Discounts, and Caper Ads, balancing consumer trust, advertiser ROI, and revenue growth.
- Lead, mentor, and scale an organization of 20+ engineers (including one manager); drive recruiting, career development, performance management, and an inclusive, high-ownership culture.
- Raise the technical bar across backend services, mobile and web clients, and the ground-truth eventing/measurement stack; ensure reliability, low latency, privacy, and data quality for ads experiences.
- Drive end-to-end execution in partnership with Ads Serving, ML, Measurement, Ads Manager, and Consumer teams; align on APIs, contracts, experimentation, and success metrics to ship at pace.
- Establish operational excellence with clear OKRs, program planning, on-call quality, incident reviews, and continuous improvement to deliver predictably in a fast-moving environment.
- Partner with Product and Ads Sales on customer development, launch readiness, adoption, and performance; iterate rapidly using experiment results and customer feedback to improve engagement, conversion, and revenue.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing engineers, with a track record leading teams of 15+ and delivering complex consumer-facing products.
- Experience building and operating large-scale consumer or marketplace systems across distributed backend services and at least one client platform (iOS, Android, or web).
- Demonstrated ability to define multi-quarter roadmaps and OKRs and deliver measurable outcomes (e.g., improvements to engagement, conversion, or revenue).
- Experience owning product instrumentation/eventing and experimentation or measurement frameworks used for monetization, optimization, or billing accuracy.
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience with Ads Solutions/Formats such as Sponsored Products, Display, and Promotions, and familiarity with ad serving, ranking, pacing, or optimization systems.
- Knowledge of the ads ecosystem, including auction dynamics, budget and flight management, attribution/measurement, and brand safety.
- Prior leadership of organizations of 20+ engineers across multiple teams in a high-growth, cross-functional environment.
- Technical depth with Ruby on Rails, Swift, Kotlin and/or React.
- Experience partnering with enterprise or retail sales and go-to-market teams to drive product adoption and performance.
Required Skills
- Software engineering
- Engineering management
- Distributed backend services
- iOS, Android, or web client platforms
- Roadmap planning
- OKRs
- Product instrumentation/eventing
- Experimentation frameworks
- Measurement frameworks
- Ruby on Rails
- Swift
- Kotlin
- React
Benefits
- Flex First remote work policy
- Highly market-competitive compensation
- New hire equity grant
- Annual refresh grants
Locations
- United States, United States
Salary
Estimated Salary Rangemedium confidence
450,000 - 750,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Software engineeringintermediate
- Engineering managementintermediate
- Distributed backend servicesintermediate
- iOS, Android, or web client platformsintermediate
- Roadmap planningintermediate
- OKRsintermediate
- Product instrumentation/eventingintermediate
- Experimentation frameworksintermediate
- Measurement frameworksintermediate
- Ruby on Railsintermediate
- Swiftintermediate
- Kotlinintermediate
- Reactintermediate
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. (experience)
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing engineers, with a track record leading teams of 15+ and delivering complex consumer-facing products. (experience)
- Experience building and operating large-scale consumer or marketplace systems across distributed backend services and at least one client platform (iOS, Android, or web). (experience)
- Demonstrated ability to define multi-quarter roadmaps and OKRs and deliver measurable outcomes (e.g., improvements to engagement, conversion, or revenue). (experience)
- Experience owning product instrumentation/eventing and experimentation or measurement frameworks used for monetization, optimization, or billing accuracy. (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience with Ads Solutions/Formats such as Sponsored Products, Display, and Promotions, and familiarity with ad serving, ranking, pacing, or optimization systems. (experience)
- Knowledge of the ads ecosystem, including auction dynamics, budget and flight management, attribution/measurement, and brand safety. (experience)
- Prior leadership of organizations of 20+ engineers across multiple teams in a high-growth, cross-functional environment. (experience)
- Technical depth with Ruby on Rails, Swift, Kotlin and/or React. (experience)
- Experience partnering with enterprise or retail sales and go-to-market teams to drive product adoption and performance. (experience)
Responsibilities
- Own the vision and multi-quarter roadmap for Ads Solutions engineering across Sponsored Products, Display Ads, Promotions/Discounts, and Caper Ads, balancing consumer trust, advertiser ROI, and revenue growth.
- Lead, mentor, and scale an organization of 20+ engineers (including one manager); drive recruiting, career development, performance management, and an inclusive, high-ownership culture.
- Raise the technical bar across backend services, mobile and web clients, and the ground-truth eventing/measurement stack; ensure reliability, low latency, privacy, and data quality for ads experiences.
- Drive end-to-end execution in partnership with Ads Serving, ML, Measurement, Ads Manager, and Consumer teams; align on APIs, contracts, experimentation, and success metrics to ship at pace.
- Establish operational excellence with clear OKRs, program planning, on-call quality, incident reviews, and continuous improvement to deliver predictably in a fast-moving environment.
- Partner with Product and Ads Sales on customer development, launch readiness, adoption, and performance; iterate rapidly using experiment results and customer feedback to improve engagement, conversion, and revenue.
Benefits
- general: Flex First remote work policy
- general: Highly market-competitive compensation
- general: New hire equity grant
- general: Annual refresh grants
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