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Senior Director, Engineering - Ads Experiences
Fetch
WorldwideRemote1mo ago
- Employment
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Lead
About the role
- Lead, coach, and develop a multi-team engineering organization, including directly managing multiple engineering managers and staff-level ICs
- Define leadership expectations across the org, hold managers accountable for both delivery outcomes and team health, and build management capacity and succession depth
- Own technical strategy across rewarded gaming and play, shopping rewards and card-linked earning, and the offer platform - including architectural direction, investment priorities, and how systems evolve to support business growth
- Translate org-level product and business goals into multi-quarter technical roadmaps, investment trade-offs, and measurable outcomes
- Contribute to org-level resource allocation decisions - headcount, budget, and technical investment priorities, in partnership with senior leadership
- Partner closely with Product, Data, and executive leadership to align on strategy, sequencing, and the technical bets that drive the business forward
- Represent Engineering in senior cross-functional and executive discussions; influence investment decisions with technical and business context
- Drive engineering leverage across the org, improving productivity, eliminating systemic inefficiencies, and ensuring platform investments compound over time
- Ensure consumer-facing platforms are scalable, reliable, observable, and resilient under high user volume and rapid product iteration
- Balance short-term delivery with long-term system health, technical debt management, and operational cost efficiency
- Lead large-scale, cross-org initiatives tied to strategic priorities, platform modernization, AI adoption in engineering workflows, and shared component strategies
- Define and institutionalize engineering standards, principles, and culture across multiple teams
- Support engineers in using AI-assisted tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude Code to improve development velocity, documentation, and code quality
- 8+ years of experience managing software engineers, including multiple years managing engineering managers
- Experience leading engineering organizations of 20+ engineers across multiple teams and product domains
- Strong technical background in backend systems, distributed systems, or mobile platform infrastructure
- Experience owning and evolving multi-product consumer-facing platforms with measurable business impact
- Proven track record of making high-impact architectural and investment trade-offs with multi-quarter consequences
- Demonstrated ability to define technical strategy for a broad domain - not just execute against a defined roadmap
- Experience contributing to org-level resource allocation and investment prioritization decisions
- Ability to align engineering, product, and business leaders on long-term technical direction
- Commitment to engineering excellence: reliability, observability, incident management, and sustainable team practices
- Ability to leverage AI tools to support engineering productivity, code quality, and team efficiency
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. Equivalent practical experience may be considered
- Experience working on rewarded engagement, gaming, loyalty, marketplace, or monetization systems
- Familiarity with consumer mobile app platforms and the mobile engineering ecosystem (iOS and Android)
- Experience driving high-throughput, low-latency transactional or earning systems at consumer scale
- Prior experience scaling engineering organizations and platforms through periods of rapid company growth
- Experience with experimentation frameworks and data pipelines in consumer product contexts
- Familiarity with AI adoption in engineering workflows - planning, code generation, documentation
- Strong programming background in Go, Swift, Kotlin, or similar backend/mobile languages
- Ability to translate complex technical and organizational trade-offs into clear communication for executive and non-technical audiences
- Equity: We offer full-time employees equity in Fetch, so that everyone can benefit from Fetch’s growth.
- 401k Match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 4%.
- Benefits for humans and pets: We offer comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for everyone including your pets.
- Continuing Education: Fetch provides ten thousand per year in education reimbursement.
- Employee Resource Groups: Take part in employee-led groups that are centered around fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace through events, dialogue and advocacy. The ERGs participate in our Inclusion Council with members of executive leadership.
- Paid Time Off: On top of our flexible PTO, Fetch observes 9 paid holidays, as well as our year-end week-long break.
- Robust Leave Policies: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 14 weeks for secondary caregivers, and a flexible return to work schedule.
- Calvin Care Cash: Employees who are welcoming new family members will also receive a one time $2,000 incentive to assist employees with covering the cost of childcare, clothing, diapers and much more!
- Flexible Work Environment: Collaborate with your team in one of our stunning offices, or you can work fully remotely from anywhere in the US. We’ll ensure you are equally equipped with the hardware and software you need to get your job done in the comfort of your home. (applicable for most roles)
Perks & benefits
- 401k
- Vision Insurance
- Unlimited Vacation
- Paid Time Off
- Pension Matching
- Learning Budget
- Equity Compensation
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