Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland Hybrid Employment

Smartly is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager

About the Role

Lead and scale engineering teams while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement across multiple technical projects.

Responsibilities

  • Guide the growth and development of engineering managers and senior technical staff
  • Establish clear team objectives and ensure alignment with company strategy
  • Drive engineering excellence through code quality, system reliability, and best practices
  • Collaborate with product and design leaders to define roadmap priorities
  • Implement scalable processes that support rapid iteration and delivery
  • Mentor team members in technical decision-making and career progression
  • Oversee the health and performance of production systems
  • Promote a culture of feedback, inclusion, and psychological safety
  • Manage resource allocation and capacity planning across teams
  • Evaluate and adopt tools and technologies that improve developer productivity
  • Lead incident response and post-mortem processes to prevent future issues
  • Ensure engineering compliance with security and data privacy standards
  • Facilitate cross-team collaboration to eliminate silos and dependencies
  • Champion agile methodologies tailored to team needs
  • Monitor key engineering metrics and report on team performance
  • Support hiring initiatives by identifying talent gaps and sourcing strategies
  • Drive initiatives to reduce technical debt and improve system architecture
  • Represent engineering in executive discussions and planning sessions
  • Foster innovation through experimentation and proof-of-concept projects
  • Ensure onboarding processes enable rapid team integration for new hires

Nice to Have

  • Master’s degree in a technical or management discipline
  • Experience in ad tech or digital marketing platforms
  • Background in high-scale data processing systems
  • Prior work in remote-first or global engineering teams
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration
  • Hands-on experience with A/B testing infrastructure
  • Knowledge of frontend and backend full-stack development
  • Exposure to machine learning systems in production
  • Leadership in open-source contributions or tech communities
  • Experience with international hiring and team expansion

Compensation

Competitive salary with equity and performance bonuses

Work Arrangement

Hybrid with flexible remote options

Team

Cross-functional product and engineering organization focused on scalable technology solutions

About the Role

This position plays a central role in shaping the engineering direction of the company, working closely with CTO and product leadership to execute on long-term vision.

Growth Opportunities

The role offers a path to expand influence across global engineering operations, with potential to lead larger divisions as the organization scales.

Technology Stack

Primary technologies include AWS, Kubernetes, Python, Go, React, and Kafka. Teams use modern observability tools and automated testing frameworks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We prioritize equitable hiring practices and inclusive team cultures, ensuring all engineers can contribute and grow regardless of background.

Performance Culture

Teams operate with clear KPIs, regular feedback loops, and transparent goal-setting to maintain high standards and accountability.

Available for qualified candidates

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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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Department Creative Engineering
Category management
Posted 2 hours ago