Digital Turbine is hiring a Software Engineering Manager to lead full-stack engineering pods responsible for campaign management, dashboards, audience tooling, and supply/demand APIs. The role involves people leadership, technical oversight, execution and delivery, hiring, operational excellence, and strategic alignment. Candidates must have 2+ years of people management experience and 8+ years of software development experience with strong full-stack architecture skills, especially in distributed back-end systems, API design, and low-latency performance. Familiarity with TypeScript/React front end and Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, or C++ back end is required. The role requires experience with Agile, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), and operational metrics. This is a hybrid role based in Durham, North Carolina. Only local candidates will be considered.
What you'll do
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
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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
Drive high architectural and quality standards across the team
Coach engineers on API design, service scalability, backend computational logic, and front-end performance
Lead recruitment efforts to scale the pod, recruiting diverse, top-tier engineering talent and building sustainable onboarding processes
Ensure overall health, observability, and performance of services owned by pods
Drive incident management, post-mortems, and equitable on-call practices
Serve as primary engineering advocate for pods, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders and aligning delivery with broader architecture and business strategy
Requirements
2+ years of direct people management experience leading software engineering teams
8+ years of hands-on software development experience building high-scale, production platforms
Strong background in full-stack architecture with emphasis on distributed back-end systems, API design, data modeling, and low-latency performance
Familiarity with polyglot environments (TypeScript/React front end; Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, or C++ back end)
Proven track record in mentoring senior/staff engineers and resolving cross-pod dependencies
Comfort with modern Agile methodologies, CI/CD practices, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), and operational metrics (SLAs, SLOs, system health)
Fits M3 Manager level - managing operational/tactical execution, influencing pod-level strategy, and owning performance and career growth for direct reports
