Technical Manager – Creative Serving

Liftoff Mobile

Technical Manager overseeing creative serving strategy at Liftoff, an AI-powered performance marketing platform for mobile apps. Managing engineering teams and ensuring high-quality infrastructure for creative serving.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeRemote • California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $176,000 - $255,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoJavaScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define, shape, and clearly communicate our long-term creative serving strategy, vision, and roadmap.
Translate business goals into team-level goals, working closely with cross-functional leaders.
Work closely with ML and product stakeholders at Liftoff, ensuring our creative serving infrastructure meets their needs with a consistently high quality bar.
Balance short-term and long-term velocity, ensuring a steady stream of improvements as your team builds for the long term.
Set the bar for our engineering culture, encouraging the development of best practices, holding individuals accountable for slippage, and improving processes.
Provide deep technical feedback on key projects as necessary.
Grow the next generation of engineers and leaders.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of industry experience in software engineering; 2+ managing engineers.
Proven track record of building and scaling engineering systems, including design, implementation, testing, and maintenance.
Excellent technical judgment; able to dive deep, review designs, navigate complex code bases, and give substantive feedback.
Solid engineering and coding skills.
Excellent team communication and collaboration skills.
Experience with Go and HTML/CSS/JS is a plus.
Experience with ad tech is a solid plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity and health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence.
Competitive salaries, equity, and benefits designed to support employee well-being and performance.

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringengineering systemsdesignimplementationtestingmaintenanceGoHTMLCSSJavaScript

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationtechnical judgmentleadershipaccountabilityprocess improvementteam managementfeedback provisioncross-functional collaborationstrategic vision