Software Engineering Manager

About the role

As a Software Engineering Manager at Digital Turbine, you will lead full-stack engineering pods responsible for building the product surfaces that bring our marketplace together—campaign management, unified dashboards, audience tooling, and low-latency supply/demand APIs. You will partner directly with Product Management, Design, and Engineering Directors to align roadmaps, drive high-throughput backend architecture, and maintain operational health across a polyglot stack.

People Leadership

• Direct-manage a team of Senior, Mid-level and Junior Full Stack Engineers across front-end, back-end, and data domains.
• Conduct 1:1s, guide career development, handle performance management, and foster an inclusive, high-ownership engineering culture.

Execution & Delivery

• Partner with Product Leads to translate business goals into clear technical roadmaps, scoping, and sprint execution.
• Ensure pods consistently deliver robust, reliable product surfaces on time.

Technical Oversight

• Drive high architectural and quality standards across the team.
• Coach engineers on API design, service scalability, pushing heavy computational logic to backend services, and front-end performance.

Hiring & Team Growth

• Lead recruitment efforts to scale the pod, recruiting diverse, top-tier engineering talent and building out sustainable team onboarding processes.

Operational Excellence

• Ensure overall health, observability, and performance of services owned by your pods.
• Drive incident management, post-mortems, and equitable on-call practices.

Strategic Alignment

• Serve as the primary engineering advocate for your pods, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders and aligning pod delivery with Digital Turbine's broader architecture and business strategy.

About You

As the Software Engineering Manager, you will need 2+ years of direct people management experience leading software engineering teams, coupled with 8+ years of hands-on software development experience building high-scale, production platforms. You should have a strong background in full-stack architecture, with a heavy emphasis on distributed back-end systems, API design, data modeling, and low-latency performance. Familiarity with polyglot environments (e.g., TypeScript/React on the front end; Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, or C++ on the back end) is also required. A proven track record in mentoring senior/staff engineers, navigating complex technical trade-offs, and resolving cross-pod dependencies is essential. Deep comfort with modern Agile methodologies, CI/CD practices, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), and operational metrics (SLAs, SLOs, system health) is a must-have. Radford Leveling Alignment: M3 Manager level—demonstrating capability in managing operational/tactical execution, influencing pod-level strategy, and owning performance and career growth for direct reports. Experience in AdTech, high-throughput marketplaces, or data-intensive dashboard surfaces, and background managing distributed/remote teams across international time zones (US, Europe, Israel) are nice to have.