Engineering Manager: Lead High-Performance Full-Stack Pods

DT; Durham (NC); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Turbine is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead multi-disciplinary full-stack pods responsible for campaign management, dashboards, audience tooling, and low-latency APIs. You will partner with Product, Design, and Engineering Directors to align roadmaps, scale backend services, and ensure operational health across a polyglot stack.

This role emphasizes people leadership, recruitment, and delivering high-impact projects while applying strong technical coaching in distributed

Qualifications

• 2+ years of direct people management leading software engineering teams.
• 8+ years of hands-on software development for high-scale platforms.
• Experience with distributed back-end systems and API design.

Responsibilities

• Direct-manage senior, mid, and junior full-stack engineers across front-end, back-end, and data domains.
• Translate business goals into technical roadmaps and sprint plans.
• Drive architectural standards and performance optimizations across pods.
• Lead recruitment and foster an inclusive, high-ownership culture.

Skills

People leadership

Full-stack architecture

API design

Low-latency systems

Agile / CI/CD

Tools

TypeScript/React

Java

Kotlin

Go

Python

C++

AWS

GCP

Job description

Digital Turbine is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead multi-disciplinary full-stack pods responsible for campaign management, dashboards, audience tooling, and low-latency APIs. You will partner with Product, Design, and Engineering Directors to align roadmaps, scale backend services, and ensure operational health across a polyglot stack.

This role emphasizes people leadership, recruitment, and delivering high-impact projects while applying strong technical coaching in distributed