Tech Lead

Global; London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company in London is seeking a Tech Lead for DAX Outdoors. This role involves designing technical architecture and enhancing digital inventory trading for advertising. Candidates should have experience with low latency distributed systems, excellent communication skills, and a passion for team development. This position offers a collaborative and agile work environment and the chance to influence the future of advertisement technology.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in developing and supporting low latency distributed systems.
• Demonstrable experience at solving complex problems across a whole system.
• Demonstrably great communication skills, both written and verbal.
• An operational mindset with experience in production environments.
• A passion for building an effective team and fostering an environment for growth.
• High standards to ensure solutions are maintained.

Responsibilities

• Work towards a unified platform for digital inventory trading.
• Design and implement technical architecture for monetisation strategies.
• Provide an easy-to-integrate delivery platform for third parties.
• Build features to enhance commercial offerings.
• Drive technical discovery and collaboration with teams.
• Ensure smooth delivery of features across teams.

Skills

Low latency distributed systems

Problem-solving across entire systems

Effective communication skills

Operational mindset in production environments

Team building and fostering growth

Job description

Accepting applications until: 29 August 2025 Job Description

Tech Lead - DAX Outdoors

Your Role: Tech Lead - DAX Outdoors

The Programmatic department develop and maintain the products that drive the commercial revenues for direct and programmatic advertisement at Global for both Connected Audio and Digital Out of Home. We have had great success in building scalable and efficient systems across our platform, and we are looking to expand our footprint in the ad tech chain for both supply and demand. This role will be crucial to that success. We are a friendly and close-knit team and work in a highly collaborative, agile environment

As a Tech Lead at Global, you will:

Key Responsibilities

• Work towards a unified platform to trade digital inventory for both audio and outdoors

• Design and implement a technical architecture for a multi-nation monetisation strategy

• Work towards an auction-first approach for trading the entire digital outdoor state (programmatic and direct demand)

• Provide a delivery platform that is easy to integrate with for third parties, as well as an optimised version for Global owned and operated

• Build the necessary features on the platform to elevate our commercial offering and increase demand from buyers

• Ownership of outdoors ad tech systems, from content delivery, platform and integration with our

• Drive early technical discovery by partnering with Product , Design and stakeholders to shape problem definitions, surface risks, co-create solutions and estimate work complexity, positioning engineering as a strategic contributor in the planning process

• Ensure smooth delivery of new features by work ing across other teams within Technology, the wider business and external partners to ensure dependencies are understood , documented and tracked.

What You’ll Love About This Role

• Think Big : Working on an advertisement delivery platform across Global’s outdoor state, including TFL, seen by millions of people everyday .

• Own It : From first conception of ideas, leading architecture and design decisions to guaranteeing optimal operations, be part of a team with a strong ethos around maintaining their own services.

• Keep it Simple : We believe in delivering value early by breaking down complex concepts into clear, engaging, and easily digestible content that resonates with our audience.

• Better Together : We are a friendly and close-knit team, working in a highly collaborative agile environment

What Success Looks Like

In your first few months, you’ll have:

• ’s engineers understands what we are building, why we are building it and how this fits in to our longer term ambitions

• Liaise with the audio platform team to identify shared services needed for a single-platform approach, reusing and adapting existing ones when favourable

• Lead the discovery work to understand the current gaps for a single-platform approach and drive their implementation across multiple squads

• Familiarise yourself with the new outdoor scheduler and work towards integrating with the existing supply platform

• Lead the POC and MVP of outdoor targeting to help advance our offering in both DAX and gPO

What You’ll Need

• Demonstrable experience in developing and supporting low latency distributed systems.

• Demonstrable experience at solving complex problems across a whole system , taking into account performance, security, supportability, maintainability.

• Demonstrably great communication skills, both written and verbal and the ability to influence and drive discussion and collaboration.

• An operational mindset, demonstrable experience in relevant tooling and maintaining a production environment including debugging complex issues across a system.

• A passion for building an effective team and fostering an environment that allows team members to learn, grow and flourish.

• High standards to get the solution right and ensure it stays right by having relevant development and QA procedures in place.