Engineering Manager (Meta)

Smartly; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive culture

Generous healthcare packages

Equity options

Performance-based rewards

Hybrid workplace model

Job summary

A cutting-edge advertising technology firm in Helsinki is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a full-stack development team. You will be responsible for team growth and tackling technical challenges, directly impacting the platform's reliability and performance. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in software development, a strong focus on user experience, and a proven track record in leading technical initiatives. This role offers a hybrid working model with generous benefits and a dynamic work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience throughout the full software life-cycle in an environment with multiple teams.
• Built and maintained large-scale, high-availability web applications.
• Strong development and technical expertise in leading technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead an autonomous full-stack development team.
• Facilitate team everyday life and enable their growth.
• Tackle ambitious technical problems to enhance engineering culture.

Skills

Coaching

Technical leadership

Agile methodologies

Team facilitation

User-focused design

Tools

Node.js

React

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Job description

Are you passionate about building next-generation products with LLMs and generative AI? Do you want to work on technology that’s transforming how brands connect with people? Join our Meta team as an Engineering Manager!

Our mission is to build the leading AI-first platform for full-funnel conversational commerce in messaging channels, combining performance marketing with deep audience insights. This means creating features that help marketers easily craft, adapt, and optimize high-performing ads and enabling more meaningful, creative, and effective conversations between brands and their audiences.

We are technology agnostic and always strive to choose the best tools for the job. On the backend, our favoured stack is Node.js with TypeScript usually coupled with PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ. On the front‑end side of things, React with TypeScript is the flavour du jour.

Our engineering teams consist of both product specialists and engineers, and alongside the lead engineer you will take the lead in delivering products and features in the right time with right content and brilliant quality. As an Engineering Manager, you will be in charge of getting the best out of people, through coaching, 1:1s, helping them build a development plan and in general removing blockers from the team's path.

About the team

This team owns the Meta offering, one of the most critical and widely used platforms in our ecosystem. Meta powers a large share of our customer workflows and operates at significant scale, requiring high standards for reliability, performance, and data integrity.

As part of this team, you will lead and contribute to key architectural and technical decisions, focusing on system performance, large‑scale data processing, robust validation, and seamless integration with the Meta APIs. The work directly impacts how customers experience and trust our platform.

You will collaborate closely with a dedicated Product Manager, guide a well‑balanced engineering team ranging from Junior to Staff level, and regularly engage with Meta engineers to ensure strong alignment, best practices, and forward‑looking solutions.

What you’ll do…

• Lead an autonomous full‑stack development team. Lead by example.
• Facilitate team everyday life. Enable them.
• Care about your team members’ growth and development. Go far together.
• Tackle ambitious technical problems and add your mark to our engineering culture. Help us grow.

What we’re looking for…

• You have experience throughout the full software life‑cycle in an environment with multiple teams.
• You have built and maintained large‑scale, high‑availability web applications with an active and growing user base.
• You cares product accountability - we are using wide variation of product metrics to ensure our decisions are data driven.
• You have experience in various agile development practices as well as the pragmatism to know which tradeoffs are acceptable and a sharp focus on delivery.
• Ability to deliver constructive feedback that leads to meaningful changes and growth.
• Empathetic and user‑focused: you care deeply about the product experience, you understand users’ motivations and frustrations, and you genuinely want to help them.
• You have strong development and technical expertise. You will need to lead technical decisions in your team and might be hands‑on when coaching the team members to new technical and professional heights, which can involve code reviews, pair programming, etc.
• Ability to work from our Helsinki office three days a week.

What We Offer You:

• Inclusive Culture: Join a team of over 800 Smartlies representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries, we foster a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback.
• Global Impact: Be part of a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers and business growth.
• Wellbeing Focus: Enjoy generous healthcare packages, mental health services, and a healthy work‑life balance with paid holidays and family leave.
• Total Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance‑based rewards, competitive compensation, and ample career development opportunities.
• Hybrid Workplace: We work in a hybrid model, balancing office and remote work, with the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

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 the only company in the industry recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Creative Advertising Technologies with PwC validating the results it delivers for brands. We manage creative and media for 700+ brands worldwide and $6 B in ad spend across the largest media platforms, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. Our end‑to‑end technology, unmatched access to media platforms and exceptional customer service help Fortune 500 brands to reach and engage consumers and learn what performs best. Smartly is a multinational and diverse team of 750+ Smartlies from 60+ nationalities, working in 13 countries. Together, we want to create and maintain an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and heard. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion approach is at the heart of it.

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