Frequence is the only end-to-end platform for media companies and agencies to grow and automate their advertising sales and operations while integrating owned and operated media. Through its full-stack proposal, workflow, and campaign-management software, Frequence drives revenue with best-in-class tools to sell, optimize, and report omnichannel advertising campaigns.
Frequence is a Madhive Company. Madhive is the leading independent and fully customizable operating system built to help local media organizations build profitable, differentiated, and efficient businesses.
We are seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Demand-Side Platform (DSP) engineering teams. You will provide strategic direction, drive alignment across teams, and manage both individual contributors and managers. As Madhive continues to scale, the efficiency, scalability, and innovation of our DSP are critical to our success. You will be responsible for ensuring the execution of complex, business-critical projects, optimizing real-time bidding systems, and driving technical excellence to support the company's growth.
About the Team
We power the backbone of Madhive's real-time advertising platform. Our DSP engineering teams build and optimize the core systems responsible for ad decisioning, bidding, and delivery-processing millions of queries per second with ultra-low latency. Our work is at the intersection of high-performance computing, distributed systems, and machine learning. We are passionate about building scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient solutions that drive measurable business impact.
What You'll Do
- Define and execute the technical strategy for Madhive's real-time bidding and ad-serving systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
- Lead engineering teams working on high-performance, low-latency ad decisioning, real-time auction dynamics, and bid optimization algorithms.
- Partner with executive leadership, Product, and other engineering leaders to align technical initiatives with business objectives.
- Manage managers and senior engineers, fostering a high-performance culture focused on technical excellence and innovation.
- Drive cost-efficient infrastructure strategies in cloud environments, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.
- Identify and mitigate risks related to latency, infrastructure, and system reliability before they impact the business.
- Advocate for best practices in software architecture, system observability, and real-time data processing.
- Leverage AI and machine learning to enhance bidding strategies, ad ranking, and campaign performance.
- Ensure engineering outcomes drive top-line revenue growth and cost efficiencies.
Who You Are
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of experience in software development, with 5+ years leading high-performing engineering teams, including managing managers.
- Deep expertise in large-scale, real-time distributed systems, with a strong understanding of high-performance computing, low-latency architectures, and ad tech platforms.
- Hands-on experience with real-time bidding (RTB), programmatic advertising, and ad-serving technologies.
- Strong understanding of data streaming, event-driven architectures, and performance optimization techniques.
- Proficiency with Go, Python, or other high-performance languages and familiarity with streaming architectures (Kafka, Flink, or similar).
- Experience working in cloud environments (preferably GCP), optimizing for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Proven ability to collaborate with executive leadership, product teams, and cross-functional partners to align technical strategies with business needs.
- Passionate about mentorship, team growth, and fostering a culture of innovation and accountability.
- Data-driven mindset, leveraging metrics and analytics to track system performance and optimize decision-making.
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Why Frequence?
Frequence is a dynamic, diverse, innovative, and friendly place to work. We embrace our differences and believe they fuel our creativity. We come from varied backgrounds and think that's important. Whether it's taking ideas from previous lives and applying them in different ways or creating something completely new, we are all trail-blazing team players who think big and want to make an impact.
We are committed to cultivating a culture of inclusion and collaboration. We welcome diversity in education, culture, opinions, race, ethnicity, gender identity, veteran status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
Please be advised that we will NOT be using third-party recruiting agencies for this search.
