Salary
💰 $292,000 - $417,200 per year
Tech Stack
Distributed Systems
About the role
- Define and drive the technical vision for Growth engineering, ensuring systems are scalable, secure, and reliable.
- Remain hands-on by reviewing code, contributing to architecture, and solving high-impact technical challenges.
- Lead and grow multiple engineering pods (User Identity, Cross-device, Marketing Tech, CRM, Campaign Optimization, Web Growth, International, New User).
- Mentor engineers and managers, fostering a culture of ownership, learning, and high performance; scale and structure the organization.
- Partner with Product, Data Science, and Design leaders to define and execute the Growth roadmap; collaborate with marketing, international, and other engineering teams.
- Drive key growth outcomes: TVT, registration rate, conversion, retention; establish metrics and operational excellence in incident response, experimentation, and release velocity.
- Balance long-term platform investments with short-term growth opportunities.
- Lead embedding AI into growth strategy: promote responsible adoption of AI-assisted coding and automation tools, apply AI to streamline campaign optimization and CRM workflows, and foster AI literacy so engineers can evaluate and debug AI recommendations.
Requirements
- 8+ years of engineering experience, including 4+ years in engineering leadership (managing managers and ICs).
- Proven experience building and scaling consumer-facing systems with millions of users.
- Strong technical depth - comfortable diving into backend services, web/OTT/mobile systems, and complex data analysis.
- Hands-on coder/architect with recent practical contributions to production systems.
- Excellent people leadership skills with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining top talent.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, able to influence at all levels of the organization.
- Experience with A/B testing platforms, experimentation frameworks, and causal inference methods (preferred).
- Familiarity with marketing technology (MarTech) stacks such as campaign management, CRM, customer data platforms, and attribution systems (preferred).
- Background in identity systems (SSO, OAuth, cross-device identity stitching, privacy/consent management) (preferred).
- Experience optimizing web growth and cross-device experiences across mobile, web, and CTV (preferred).
- Track record of launching products or growth initiatives in international markets (preferred).
- Deep technical expertise in one or more relevant stacks (e.g., distributed systems, large-scale backend services, or full-stack web development) (preferred).
- Ability to attend evening meetings (team in Beijing, China Standard Time) and occasional travel to Beijing (no more than once a year).