Engineering Manager - AI Recommendations & Ad Platform

True Software Scandinavia AB; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 1,400,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days paid vacation

Private health insurance

Pension and wellness contributions

Lab Days program

Job summary

Truecaller is seeking an Engineering Manager for Recommendations & AdVantage in Stockholm. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team of ML engineers, data scientists, backend and data engineers responsible for retrieval, ranking, contextual bandits, and real-time serving.

You will set technical direction and own delivery against ambitious product goals. You will collaborate with product and data science teams to translate business goals into a clear roadmap, enforce reusable platform design, and

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading or managing engineering or ML teams, ideally in recommendations, ranking, ads, search, or a similarly ML-heavy domain.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and retain a high-performing team, investing in each member’s development and career path.
• Set technical direction across the recommendation and advertising ML stack – retrieval, ranking, contextual bandits, conversion modeling – along with the real-time serving and data platforms that support them.
• Own team planning, prioritization, and delivery, balancing near-term product and campaign commitments against long-term platform health.
• Partner closely with product, data science, and other engineering teams to translate business goals – revenue, engagement, advertiser outcomes – into a clear technical roadmap.
• Push for reuse: config-driven, composable platforms and closed feedback loops rather than one-off models and pipelines.
• Drive rigor in experimentation and evaluation, from offline metrics to online A/B tests, so model changes ship on measured impact.
• Keep production systems reliable at scale, owning the latency, quality, and cost of models serving hundreds of millions of users.
• Run regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations, and recruit and onboard new talent as the team grows.
• Stay close enough to the technical detail to make informed calls, unblock your team, and earn credibility with senior ML and backend engineers.

Skills

Leadership

ML in production

Backend engineering

Data pipelines

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Delivery of complex projects

Ambiguity management

Tools

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

Feature stores

Model serving

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

Truecaller is seeking an Engineering Manager for Recommendations & AdVantage in Stockholm. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team of ML engineers, data scientists, backend and data engineers responsible for retrieval, ranking, contextual bandits, and real-time serving.

You will set technical direction and own delivery against ambitious product goals. You will collaborate with product and data science teams to translate business goals into a clear roadmap, enforce reusable platform design, and