# Technical Manager - Creative Serving

**Company:** [Liftoff](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/liftoff)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $176k – $255k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Software Engineering, System Design, Code Review, Team Leadership, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Ad Tech
**Posted:** 2026-06-05

> Lead the Creative Serving engineering team, defining strategy and roadmap while managing engineers building mission-critical ad serving systems. Requires 5+ years engineering experience and 2+ years people management.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define, shape, and clearly communicate long-term creative serving strategy, vision, and roadmap.
- Translate business goals into team-level goals, working closely with cross-functional leaders.
- Collaborate with ML and product stakeholders to ensure creative serving infrastructure meets needs with a high quality bar.
- Balance short-term and long-term velocity, ensuring steady improvements while building for the long term.
- Set the bar for engineering culture, encourage best practices, hold individuals accountable, and improve processes.
- Provide deep technical feedback on key projects.
- Grow the next generation of engineers and leaders.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering; 2+ years 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.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with Go and HTML/CSS/JS.
- Experience with ad tech.

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