Engineering Manager

ABOUT CAPTIFY

Captify is the leading Search Intelligence Platform for the open web and the largest independent holder of first-party search data outside of the walled gardens, connecting the real-time searches from over 2 billion devices globally. Its Search Intelligence technology powers omnichannel programmatic advertising and real-time insights for the world’s biggest brands, such as Disney, Unilever, eBay, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, Nestlé, GSK, Uber, Mars, P&G, Sony and Toyota—without reliance on third-party cookies. Captify brings brands more customers, publishers greater yield and consumers the most relevant digital experiences.

OUR CULTURE AND VALUES

Here at Captify we are proud of our culture - It’s contagious. Pass it on.

Step inside any of our global offices and one thing that is blissfully obvious is that while we’re putting blood, sweat and tears into disrupting the Search game, we’re having a seriously good time doing it. We’ve travelled the world together, enjoyed Captify Festivals, parties and our famous events across every market. We always take time to stop to celebrate milestones and wins.

We champion diversity and inclusion. Our 'BeTheChange' programme and internal D&I Taskforce brings our teams together to challenge, learn and build a more equal Captify.

We live by our core values

• Building this together
• Give a shit
• Fail fast to succeed faster
• Unlimited potential

Find out more about our culture here: https://careers.captify.co.uk/

OVERVIEW

We are looking for an Engineering Manager leading a team of multi-disciplined engineers, responsible for providing identity-based targeting and insights for our clients, tapping into the best of Captify’s proprietary data and analysis. Search on its own is a highly complex data set. Captify’s technologies have been built to extract maximum value from the search for brands, partners and businesses all over the world and also to innovate & improve the consumer experience. 

Captify’s world-class engineers, semantic specialists and product teams are building the future of Search and as part of our Engineering Team, you will play a key part in developing our offering.

We work in small cross-functional pods of developers who focus on a particular product area and we encourage people to rotate across teams.

Our company values are important to us and influence how we work together. With exciting projects, technologies and services in the pipeline now is a great time to be part of our journey.

ABOUT YOU

You will be a dedicated and passionate manager who can lead disparate teams across multiple locations with a thorough understanding of Data Science and Software Engineering as applied to the Advertising technology ecosystem. Captify has a growing product offering and you will be leading  one of these innovations

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

What you’ll be doing:

• You will help architect and build innovative products to enhance and extend search data
• You will develop and improve existing solutions
• You will lead a team of ML Specialists and Ad Tech-focused Software Engineers
• You will experiment with new tools and technologies to produce cutting-edge solutions to business problems
• You will lead a self-organising, results-oriented distributed agile team

REQUIREMENTS

What you need to be successful:

• Have experience managing remote teams
• Have experience with Machine Learning / Data Science
• Have previous experience with git, CI and CD tools (e.g. Jenkins, TeamCity)
• Know about docker, Kubernetes, and AWS services
• Have experience with Scala or Python programming languages
• Experience with spark and flink is advantageous
• Proactive self-starter who takes ownership, is comfortable with ambiguity and is able to drive the project and mentor team members
• Passionate about writing good code
• Ability to travel to our London office for regular team meetings, brainstorms and social events
• You must be based in either UK, Greece, Poland and Hungary

YOU WILL ENJOY

• Enjoy our flexible/core hours and home working as per company policy
• Work from any Captify office in the world - giving every employee the opportunity to experience life at Captify in another city
• A pet friendly office based in Covent Garden, London’s Media Hub!
• Time off to recharge - 25 days holidays + bank holidays + your birthday
• Giving something back to the community - Give A Day Away for volunteering
• We care about Wellbeing - from financial wellbeing, mental health first aiders, yoga, sports, meditation and so much more
• Access to Captify Academy - our bespoke learning and development platform
• Parent-friendly policies
• The normal stuff; Pension, Cycle Scheme and Eyecare Vouchers 
• Beer, bubbles and non-alcoholic alternatives every Thursday and Friday at the Captify Bar

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

You are welcome at Captify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what your search history says about you. At Captify, equality is at the core of our culture and we are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. We don’t want you to fit in with our culture, we want you to add to our culture.

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