R&D Team Lead

Your Story:

As a Team Lead at EX.CO you will lead and develop our Ad-Server product. Manage and optimize a high-scale infrastructure product with billions of transactions every day, own and lead end-to-end features and handle the entire development cycle - architecture, implementation, deployment and monitoring.

As part of the job, you will work closely with the product, BI, operations, and business teams. build a great product that will leverage our capabilities and influence directly the way billions of people consume and engage with content over the internet.

We are working on a hybrid cloud-based and on-prem environment, with a variety of technologies.

Our Story:

At the heart of every digital revolution, there's a story. Ours began in 2012, with a vision of empowering publishers to own their digital businesses with technology that helps them grow engagement and revenue.

Today, EX.CO is a leading video platform for publishers. Through machine learning and AI technology, we empower publishers to own their video content and monetization strategies, and maximize their revenue. Our OVP (Online Video Platform) offers global publishers unparalleled access to best-in-class ad serving, monetization, content automation, and video recommendation.

Trusted by some of the leading publishers globally, including The Arena Group, CBSi, Hearst Newspapers, Nasdaq, VICE, and more, EX.CO’s platform helps publishers boost audience engagement and increase revenue. Our success is a direct result of our dedicated team located around the world and visionary backers including The Walt Disney Company, Saban Ventures, Viola Group, 83North, and Firstime Ventures.

At EX.CO's core is a passion for reimagining the video space for the open web and an unyielding commitment to supporting the media industry with advanced technology. And now, we're looking for remarkable talent like you to join the next chapter of our story.

Long story short, you will:

- Full ownership and management of EX.CO monetization serving layer
- Support and manage 99.999 uptime infrastructure products with billions of transactions every day.
- Grow and develop a team of talented and motivated backend developers.
- Own the design, execution, quality, and end-to-end delivery of highly scalable products.
- Manage projects in order to ensure that all projects are delivered on time, within the scope, and within budget, and eventually meet the end clients in production
- Collaboration with stakeholders as Business, Product, Operations inc.

And will be awesome if you have:

- 8+ years of experience in engineering, with a focus on system architecture and design
- 5+ years of experience in engineering team management, including hiring and development
- Strong proficiency in AWS, Redis, and Go programming language
- Extensive experience in building and maintaining complex, high-scale systems in both on-prem and cloud environments
- Ability to seamlessly transition between on-premises and cloud-based system architectures
- Proven track record of managing context switches effectively while upholding high code quality standards
- Experience in project management, including planning, execution, and delivery of engineering projects

Advantages:

- Proven experience in the Ad-tech industry
- Experience with Kafka & data streaming processes
- Experience in NGINX and Angular, python