Software Engineering Manager

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

At Digital Turbine, we make mobile advertising experiences more meaningful and rewarding for users, app publishers, and advertisers — intelligently connecting people in more ways, across more devices. We provide app publishers and advertisers with powerful ads and experiences that captivate consumers, fuel performance, and help telecoms and OEMs supercharge awareness, acquisition, and monetization. In a rapidly evolving industry, we are constantly innovating and creating better paths of discovery to connect consumers, publishers, and advertisers across the mobile ecosystem.

Digital Turbine is a hybrid work environment—only candidates local to the posting location will be considered.

Digital Turbine runs on small, autonomous pods that own outcomes and roadmaps end‑to‑end. We hire leaders who balance strong technical judgment with people‑first management: leaders who can guide team execution, foster engineering excellence, and hire and grow top talent without getting bogged down in language‑specific dogma.

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead full‑stack engineering pods responsible for building the product surfaces that bring our marketplace together—campaign management, unified dashboards, audience tooling, and low‑latency supply/demand APIs. You will partner directly with Product Management, Design, and Engineering Directors to align roadmaps, drive high‑throughput backend architecture, and maintain operational health across a polyglot stack. While this is primarily a people and delivery leadership role, a strong background in low‑latency systems, algorithmic problem‑solving, and scalable web surfaces is essential for technical coaching and system design oversight.

About The Software Engineering Manager

• People Leadership: Direct‑manage a team of Senior, Mid‑level and Junior Full Stack Engineers across front‑end, back‑end, and data domains. Conduct 1:1s, guide career development, handle performance management, and foster an inclusive, high‑ownership engineering culture.
• Execution & Delivery: Partner with Product Leads to translate business goals into clear technical roadmaps, scoping, and sprint execution. Ensure pods consistently deliver robust, reliable product surfaces on time.
• Technical Oversight: Drive high architectural and quality standards across the team. Coach engineers on API design, service scalability, pushing heavy computational logic to backend services, and front‑end performance.
• Hiring & Team Growth: Lead recruitment efforts to scale the pod, recruiting diverse, top‑tier engineering talent and building out sustainable team onboarding processes.
• Operational Excellence: Ensure overall health, observability, and performance of services owned by your pods. Drive incident management, post‑mortems, and equitable on‑call practices.
• Strategic Alignment: Serve as the primary engineering advocate for your pods, collaborating with cross‑functional stakeholders and aligning pod delivery with Digital Turbine's broader architecture and business strategy.

About You As The Software Engineering Manager

• Experience: 2+ years of direct people management experience leading software engineering teams, coupled with 8+ years of hands‑on software development experience building high‑scale, production platforms.
• Technical Breadth: Strong background in full‑stack architecture, with a heavy emphasis on distributed back‑end systems, API design, data modeling, and low‑latency performance. Familiarity with polyglot environments (e.g., TypeScript/React on the front end; Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, or C++ on the back end).
• Leadership Capabilities: Proven track record in mentoring senior/staff engineers, navigating complex technical trade‑offs, and resolving cross‑pod dependencies.
• Process & Delivery: Deep comfort with modern Agile methodologies, CI/CD practices, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), and operational metrics (SLAs, SLOs, system health).
• Radford Leveling Alignment: Fits an M3 Manager level—demonstrating capability in managing operational/tactical execution, influencing pod‑level strategy, and owning performance and career growth for direct reports.

Nice To Have Skills

• Experience in AdTech, high‑throughput marketplaces, or data‑intensive dashboard surfaces.
• Background managing distributed/remote teams across international time zones (US, Europe, Israel).
• Experience integrating data pipelines, machine learning, or BI tools into product workflows.

About Digital Turbine

Digital Turbine (NASDAQ: APPS) powers superior mobile consumer experiences and results for the world’s leading telcos, advertisers and publishers. Our end‑to‑end platform uniquely simplifies the ability to supercharge awareness, acquisition and monetization — connecting our partners to more consumers, in more ways, across more devices.

The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with global offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Berlin, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and other cities around the world, serving top agency, app developer, and advertising markets.

We are honored to have achieved numerous awards as an employer of choice, around the world, including: BuiltIn's Best Places to Work Awards in 2022, 2023 and 2024, DUNS 100 Best Places to Work in Tech for 2023 and 2024, and BDICode's 100 Best Companies to Work in 2024.

Digital Turbine is an equal opportunity employer committed to exemplifying diversity and inclusion around the world. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We embed diversity in our mindset, products, and teams to empower an inclusive, equitable, and culturally fluent environment. Building and continuously fostering this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators, partners, and innovators.

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