Head of Architecture

Media Recruit

  • London
  • £100,000-150,000 per year
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 month ago
About The CompanyOur client is a PE backed, global adtech company with their own proprietary tech. Already well established and continuing to grow, they operate with an open and flexible approach, and are highly driven by innovation.About The RoleThey are now seeking a Head of Architecture, reporting in to the CTO and managing a team of engineers to help scale their tech rapidly and securely. Key responsibilities include:
  • Enhancing performance of the key components of the adtech platform
  • Architecting new AI and Data Science based features and SDKs for app integrations
  • Improving reliability, long-term maintainability, scalability and fault tolerance
  • Ensuring compliance with good engineering and deployment processes and procedures
  • Coaching engineering team and code reviews
This is a highly collaborative role, working with the wider data, product and devops teams.About YouWe are looking for someone with extensive seniority in software engineering, the last several years of which have been in system architecture, in the adtech world. Your key skills will include:
  • Go, Node.js, Python, Java backend languages
  • Javascript Typescript frontend languages
  • React, React Native frameworks
  • Cloud hosting architecture, including load balancing, failover, auto scaling
  • Big data architecture
  • Observability tools ( Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc)
  • Programmatic, RTB, pre-bidding, DSPs, SSPs, and/or ad-serving
What's On OfferOur client is offering a generous six figure salary, 26 days annual leave, private healthcare and employer matched pension to 3%. Performance based options are also available for this role.The role is hybrid, with 1 day a week in their London office, ideally, but there is flexibility around this also for the right person.Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are dedicated to diverse, inclusive and authentic recruitment, as is our client, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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