Director of Engineering, Exchange Platform

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At Index Exchange, we're reinventing how digital advertising works—at scale. As a global advertising supply-side platform, we empower the world’s leading media owners and marketers to thrive in a programmatic, privacy-first ecosystem. Our platform is trusted by some of the world’s largest brands and media owners and plays a crucial role in the business model of the internet.

At the core of it all is our engineering-first culture. Our engineers tackle internet-scale problems across tight-knit, global teams. From moving petabytes of data and optimizing with AI to making real-time infrastructure decisions, Indexers have the agency and influence to shape the future of advertising. We move fast, build thoughtfully, and stay grounded in our core values.

About The Role

With an Exchange Platform that handles more than 800 billion real-time auctions every day, the Director, Exchange Platform will be responsible for the operation, innovation and invention of the exchange platform, leading a world class team.

What We’re Looking For

A pragmatic and strategic technology leader:

• Define the roadmap for performance profiling, tooling, optimization, and latency reduction across the entire exchange platform.

• Exceptional hands-on technology leader to ‘drive and own’ the performance optimization, vision, direction, and technology roadmap for system performance and optimization

• Design, develop, and drive: implementation of all performance- and latency-critical services and pipelines in our exchange; performance profiling and optimization tooling and frameworks, and integrate same into our build and validation pipelines

• Establish and advance best practices and standards for performance and latency critical pipelines, and ensure that all Index engineering teams subscribe to same

• Manage all requirements related to performance and latency metrics and observability

• Develop and champion the near-term targets against long term strategy for continuous performance and latency improvements for our exchange

• Make significant contributions while working cross functionally across engineering on the strategic technology roadmap for the company

A builder and amplifier of world class engineering teams:

• Lead architecture and design with a particular focus on pervasive performance and latency optimization, profiling, and observability

• Collaborate to build and evolve technology planning, design, and architectural process for all of Index, driving collaborative engagement and enabling innovation from the entire organization

• Organize and drive integrated release planning and coordination and design across platform, software, analytics, and infrastructure teams

• Drive alignment across all agile engineering teams, with a strong focus on best in class architectural and technology standards and engineering best practices

• Design and build quality, performance, security, efficiency, and reliability in from day one, and inspire other team members to do the same

• Prototype, vet, and champion new technology introductions to our platform

• Represent our performance capabilities and strategies to diverse internal teams, as well as to external partners and customers

• Act as a respected technical role model and mentor for engineering teams, leading, motivating, and challenging a diverse globally distributed technology team

Growth Focused Architectural Leadership

• Build, maintain, and drive the technology strategy and roadmap in close collaboration with architects

• Champion quality and data driven decisions, development, and delivery

• Offer pragmatic technology leadership, balancing long-term R&D investments with near-term execution and business impact

• Communicate design decisions and influence technology and product direction of peers and executive leadership

• Deliver to commitments, communicating changes in plans whether they be design or timeline modifications honestly and transparently

Leadership Role Model And Exemplar

• Able to build credibility and rapport; adept at modifying one's behavioral style to respond to the needs of others while maintaining own objectives

• A technologist’s technologist - able to lead high performance technology teams by example

• Ability to manage, build and complement high performance teams with a natural ability to level-up high-performing engineers

• A strong leader who can lead, manage, and inspire teams both locally and remotely

• An aggressive problem solver who can provide creative solutions to complex situations and obtain buy-in from those affected

• Able to take initiative to define and prioritize specific goals and objectives, and to do the same for others

• A team player that works hard, admits their strengths and weaknesses, and has the flexibility to improve by learning new things

• Inspirational and results-oriented leader, capable of earning the trust and respect of high performing engineering teams

Here’s What You’ll Be Doing

• Hiring the right people, helping people grow both technically and personally, creating a stronger sense of ownership at the individual and team level

• Bring a passion for technology, experience developing systems at scale, on multiple tech stacks and love launching as much as you love delivering results.

• Provide consistent and steady feedback to your team – both positive and constructively critical. You are transparent with your team, and work to keep stakeholders informed of progress and issues.

• Experience with Agile environments of all flavours, understand practices associated with different methodologies and when to use them.

• Make an impact on Engineering and IX as a whole. Share your experiences at Town Halls, improve best practices, mentor engineers across teams.

Here's What You Need

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent

• 10+ years of experience in large scale commercial software development environments

• Significa…