Senior Engineering Manager

Overview

We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to join Smartly’s Creative Engineering group to lead a team responsible for building and maintaining integrations with multiple advertising platforms. The team plays a key role in enabling Smartly’s creative offering by ensuring our systems connect seamlessly with external partner APIs and services at scale.

The team designs, builds, and operates high-scale integration services that are relied on by some of the world’s largest advertisers. These integrations are a critical part of how creatives are delivered, managed, and optimized across channels, making the team’s work central to the overall product experience.

The main technologies used by the team include: Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes; React for selected UI workflows; deep integrations with external advertising platforms and the broader Smartly infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate an autonomous full-stack team responsible for the end-to-end delivery of channel integration, working closely with product managers to align priorities and drive impact.
• Champion team member growth through coaching, regular 1:1s, and clear personal development planning, fostering a culture of technical excellence.
• Identify blockers and tackle ambitious technical problems to contribute to the engineering culture and maintain reliable, scalable systems.

Qualifications

• You are an experienced people leader with proven ability in building and leading high-performing teams.
• You have experience across the full software life-cycle in an environment with high-availability demands and an active user base.
• You have experience with various agile development practices and the pragmatism to know which tradeoffs are acceptable, with a sharp focus on delivery.
• You possess an empathic, user-focused mindset and care about the product experience, understanding users’ motivations and frustrations.
• You are comfortable being hands-on to guide the team on technical decisions, system design, and best engineering practices.
• You have the ability to work from our Helsinki office three days a week.

What We Offer You

• An inclusive global culture with a diverse team and opportunities for growth.
• Global impact through contributing to customer success and business growth.
• Focus on wellbeing with healthcare, mental health services, and work-life balance through paid holidays and family leave.
• Comprehensive rewards including equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and career development opportunities.
• Flexible hybrid workplace with office collaboration and remote work, plus the option to work abroad up to 30 days annually.

Smartly is committed to being a great place for growth-minded individuals to thrive. Explore more in our Culture Handbook. Apply now and build your future with Smartly. Curious what it’s like to work at Smartly? Visit our Careers page to see how we grow, collaborate, and make impact together.

About Smartly

Smartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company transforming ad experiences for brands and their consumers. Our comprehensive advertising platform seamlessly integrates the capabilities of media, creative, and intelligence to power more than 800 billion impressions and generate more than 300 billion creatives annually, delivering tangible business outcomes for brands and advertisers. Smartly is a multinational and diverse team of 750+ employees from 60+ nationalities, working in 13 countries. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion approach is at the heart of our culture.