Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland Hybrid Employment

Smartly is hiring an Engineering Manager, DevOps Tooling & Developer Experience

About the Role

Manage and grow a team responsible for developing and maintaining tooling that supports engineering workflows, infrastructure, and developer experience. Drive initiatives that improve system reliability, deployment efficiency, and developer productivity through scalable solutions and best practices.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of engineers focused on internal tooling and developer platforms
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to identify pain points in development and deployment workflows
  • Define and execute roadmap for developer experience improvements
  • Oversee the design and implementation of scalable DevOps tools and automation systems
  • Promote best practices in CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure management
  • Work closely with platform and SRE teams to align tooling with operational needs
  • Drive adoption of internal tools across engineering organizations
  • Evaluate performance and usability of existing developer tools
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement and engineering excellence
  • Support career development and technical growth of team members
  • Ensure reliability, security, and maintainability of tooling systems
  • Coordinate with product and engineering leadership on strategic priorities
  • Manage project planning, execution, and delivery timelines
  • Integrate feedback loops from developers into tooling enhancements
  • Champion developer-centric design in platform development

Nice to Have

  • Experience leading teams in fast-growing technology environments
  • Background in frontend or full-stack development with tooling focus
  • Hands-on experience building self-service developer platforms
  • Exposure to large-scale distributed systems
  • Prior work in developer experience or internal tools teams
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes and service mesh technologies
  • Track record of reducing operational overhead through automation
  • Experience with developer portal frameworks or internal dashboards
  • Contributions to open-source developer tools or platforms

Compensation

Competitive salary and benefits package

Work Arrangement

Hybrid work model with flexibility for remote and office-based work

Team

Part of the engineering organization focused on internal tools and developer productivity

Why This Role Matters

Developer productivity is central to engineering velocity. This role directly shapes the tools and systems that thousands of engineers use daily, reducing friction and enabling faster, safer software delivery.

What You’ll Build

Internal platforms that streamline deployment workflows, enhance observability, and simplify infrastructure management. You’ll lead the creation of tools that empower developers to ship code confidently and efficiently.

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About company
Smartly

Smartly helps the world’s most ambitious brands launch faster, scale smarter, and deliver ads that don’t just show up—they show results. Not a media platform. Not a creative studio. Smartly is where creative and media finally stop pretending they don’t know each other.

Since 2013, Smartly has been building a better way to advertise—where insights, automation, and creativity work together from the start. The company believes in aligning strategy, creative, and media before campaigns launch, reinventing how advertising is done.

Smartly’s AI-powered platform enables teams to build smarter cross-channel ads in one-third the time. It synchronizes creative and media workflows, turning fragmented processes into fully aligned performance systems that drive better results.

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Job Details
Department Infrastructure & Production
Category infrastructure
Posted 2 hours ago