Engineering Team Lead AdTech

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to build and lead one of our AdTech development teams focusing on the development of Wolts advertising supply platform. This role is centered on enabling Brands and Merchants to efficiently access and utilize advertising opportunities across Wolts surfaces such as inapp placements discovery pages and more.

The AdTech team has been building and growing over the last few years and is quickly becoming an important revenue center within Wolt. We have two teams one focusing on serving our Merchants and one focusing on Brands of which the Brands team in particular is much earlier in the journey and still building a foundational platform. These two teams have the awesome responsibility of creating an advertising platform that will allow brands and merchants to connect with our highly engaged audience through our food delivery and other verticals.

In terms of tech Kotlin is the main backend programming language of the team TypeScript and React for frontend Swift & Kotlin for Native Mobile. In terms of architecture we are taking into use eventdriven solutions more and more (Kafka etc.) and its a work in progress so you will get to be part of making that happen for your team and the group. As for databases we use PostgreSQL & Redis and collect lots of data into SnowFlake. Our SRE stack is built around DataDog. We work in a crossfunctional environment and right now the team consists of backend frontend as well as data scientist & analyst and a Product Lead. Were rapidly growing our ranks by looking to add more frontend and mobile competence during the year.

About You

Youve built a lot of software shipped products created platforms tools and modules worked with every framework under the sun and have worked on Adtech products serving thousands of users both as an engineer and later a lead. Youre as excited as we are about learning every day and solving really hard engineering problems that no one else is. Youve also operated services and/or scaled software at a high level ensuring customer uptime and safety are your foremost tenets.

Youre passionate about software quality repeatability testability and maintainability in production. When you need clarity you go to the product owner or even a user and talk to them until you get it.
 

When you need results you are relentless in getting results and never throw your hands up in defeat because your slack message goes unreplied but instead find ways to get what you need.

As the leader of the team you inspire facilitate and enable the team to do what they do best. You have experience in all levels of team leadership from the lowlevel stuff like running the development cycle providing insight on technical solutions and solving daytoday problems for the team. You know how to operate a service and can interrogate the metrics and dashboards of your software to personally understand when things arent working and surface them to the team. You can train your team to do this too. You understand the challenges associated with operating a largescale system in production and your designs and architectures reflect that understanding. Shipping on time with high quality makes your heart feel warm.

You also have experience as a mentor and coach you hold regular meaningful 11s and prioritize the time of your team members over the churn of an often full calendar. You know how to challenge and keep your team accountable to audacious goals while also providing a support network for people to feel safe failing and learning in their growth journey. You provide actionable and insightful feedback for the team tied to your own personal experience and anecdotes to provide context and grounding. You would never ask your team to do something you arent willing to do yourself although the times when you do touch code are likely few and far between. 

You also know how to operate on a high level as the face of your team. You understand how to take the raw estimates and timelines of team projects and build a crisp and clear narrative about your team for leadership. You know how to manage expectations and communicate to your stakeholders in the language that they understand whether that be design product engineering leadership or business partners. With stakeholders and team members you are diplomatic persuasive and usually right. Youre skilled at brokering agreements between teams that can frankly often have competing priorities and roadmaps so that you get your stuff shipped. You keep stakeholders as accountable as your own reports and are creative in finding technical solutions that prevent your team from getting blocked. You never blame a missed timeline on a dependency that doesnt come through in time because you understand that its your responsibility to find a path forward. 

When youre wrong youre happy to learn something. Youre humble in the face of your teams misses and able to think on your feet and move the team in the right direction when new information challenges your previous plans. You protect your team from direct blame while still holding them accountable to learn and grow from failure.

As an engineering leader in Wolt expectations are high. Were hoping that you are the next great leader to join us and raise the bar for the Adtech team ever higher.

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