Software Engineering Manager - Moloco Ads

Moloco is a machine learning company empowering organizations of all sizes to grow and unlock the full value of their unique first-party data, elevating the traditional path to performance advertising. While the largest technology companies have proven the speed and scale of ad-targeting utilizing data— the same robust performance powered by machine learning has previously been unavailable beyond their platforms.

That's where Moloco steps in. With Moloco's powerful combination of cutting-edge machine learning technologies, we play a unique and visible role in shaping the digital economy, all while allowing companies to stay independent and scale.

An industry leader at the nexus of machine learning, performance marketing, and visionary product infrastructure, Moloco is advancing the advertising technology industry. We ranked in the top 10% in the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies for 2023. Recognized as one of 46 leading Cloud Computing companies, receiving the Stratus Award for 2023. In 2023, we received Google’s Cloud DevOps Dreamers Award, a recognition given to companies that are implementing DevOps practices to drive organizational success and high performance. Lastly, Moloco is a 2024 certified Great Place to Work! Check us out on Glassdoor and be sure to get an inside look at working at Moloco on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, London, Berlin, Seoul, Singapore, Beijing, Gurgaon, and Tokyo.

Creating a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion and belonging is core to our existence. To reach our goals, diversity of talent and thought is a critical component to how we operate as an organization. Our workforce is our superpower, and we know that fostering a culture of inclusion, authenticity, and belonging will allow us the greatest opportunity to carry out our mission -- to empower businesses of all sizes to grow through operational machine learning.

Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now!

The Impact You’ll Be Contributing to Moloco:

We’re looking for an entrepreneurial engineering manager to lead the development of Moloco Ads – a powerful, personalization-based ad solution that allows clients to leverage the state-of-the-art ML-powered match-making and ad-serving technology stack. From large-scale data processing to cutting-edge machine learning, Moloco Ads gives our customers access to unprecedented ad performance, flexibility, control, and scale, previously available only to the largest online service companies to grow and monetize their businesses through sponsored advertising solutions.

The Opportunity:

As the engineering manager for Moloco Ads service, you will work with a team of seasoned technology veterans and entrepreneurs to bring this revolutionary new platform to market.

• Build, grow, and lead a full-stack engineering team responsible for developing enterprise platform products, features, and APIs across the entire Moloco Ads technology stack.
• Drive engineering projects for architecting, designing, developing, and operating an end-to-end service platform for e-commerce customers looking to leverage Moloco’s ML-driven advertising technology stack, services, and infrastructure.
• Responsible for all development and operational aspects of Moloco Ads engineering, collaborating with peers in the Product Management, Business Development, and Enterprise Sales teams. Joint activities will include requirement specification, ensuring the quality of products and service operations, and communicating the technical roadmap to enterprise customers.
• Own the communication, coordination, and facilitation of cross-functional Moloco Ads engineering projects across Moloco’s engineering organization.
• Help engineering leadership build roadmaps and action plans for Moloco Ads service.
• Identify risks in executing projects and develop mitigation plans & strategies.

How Do I Know if the Role is Right For Me?

• Exceptional level of communication, coordination, software development, and development-team management skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or graduate degrees in engineering or science
• 15+ years of experience working in an engineering organization as a developer or development manager.
• Deep understanding of online service systems and businesses -- especially SaaS industries and technologies.
• Detail-oriented and willing to embrace ambiguity.
• Experience in the ad tech industry is a plus but not required.
• Some understanding of ML technologies is a plus but not required.

Moloco Thrive: Benefits and Well-Being:

We take care of you and create the conditions for you to do the best work of your career. Through a lens of Inclusion, we offer innovative benefits which empower our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can do the best work of their lives. For an overview of our global benefits, click here.

Moloco Values:

• Lead with Humility: Everyone’s voice is respected, valued, and heard. With humility, we become more open and accessible to each other. We win, lose, and learn together. Accountability and feedback are essential to our success.
• Uncapped Growth Mindset: We see all situations as opportunities to learn, grow, and improve as individuals and as an organization. We seek diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and promote experimentation to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
• Create Real Value: We pursue the most impactful opportunities with rigor and integrity. We take intelligent risks and make disciplined trade-offs to maintain deep focus. We help our customers win by delivering durable value.
• Go Further Together: We’re one team working towards one mission and vision. We collaborate proactively and inclusively, involving the right people at the right time and in the right way. We strive to create a more equitable workplace. We won’t let each other fail.

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Equal Opportunity:

Moloco is an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex and gender, gender expression and gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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