Manager, Engineering

Immigration / Work Authorization Notice: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States. iSpot is not able to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time. iSpot competes for the best talent. Our compensation packages consist of salary and equity in one of Seattle’s hottest start-ups, as well as other standard benefits. Most importantly, we provide a really interesting working experience, and the chance to contribute to the success of something great. What You’ll Be Part Of: We are seeking a Engineering Manager to lead the development of our high-scale Publisher Team. This role is responsible for the mission-critical systems that ingest, process, and organize massive streams of media data. You will own the end-to-end data lifecycle, from ingestion of raw broadcast/digital signals to the management of a robust Content Catalog. This role has explicit accountability for software quality, owns the frontend, and brings ads domain expertise, including ownership of the ad catalog. Your objective is to ensure that our platform provides a highly accurate, performant, and "source-of-truth" foundation for all downstream measurement and attribution products. The role requires balancing people leadership, technical execution, and quality outcomes across all platform systems. Platform Evolution & AI Integration System Modernization: Lead the strategy for upgrading and refactoring existing ingestion and cataloging systems to improve throughput, reduce latency, and lower technical debt. AI-Driven Automation: Embed machine learning and AI into the content cataloging workflow to automate creative identification, metadata extraction, and fingerprinting at scale. Big Data Domain Expertise: Ensure the accuracy and reliability of massive ad datasets, partnering cross-functionally to evolve platform capabilities in support of complex attribution modeling. Partner Data Integration: Own the engineering work to onboard and mainta