Senior Manager, Engineering at Upwave

We are Upwave, the leading analytics platform for brand advertising. Our software gives brands, agencies, and media partners a single, cross-media view of their advertising performance, turning billions of ad events into clear, real-time insight. Fortune 500 companies in consumer packaged goods, technology, financial services, and other sectors-as well as the world’s largest agencies and media platforms-rely on Upwave to measure and improve the effectiveness of television, streaming, digital, and social campaigns. Backed by investors including Y Combinator, Uncork Capital, Bloomberg Beta, and Initialized Capital, we are a profitable, engineering-first company that is growing quickly while remaining committed to sustainable work-life balance.

Key outcomes

• Lead the full software engineering organization, guiding architecture decisions, development practices, and day-to-day execution across our codebase and cloud infrastructure.
• Partner with the CTO and product leadership to shape and deliver the product roadmap, ensuring engineering work aligns with business priorities.
• Establish and maintain high standards of engineering excellence through coaching, code and design reviews, and strategic technical guidance while empowering teams to own execution.
• Support the professional growth of engineers through career development, clear expectations, and recognition, fostering an inclusive and high-performing culture.
• Continuously improve our software development lifecycle and processes to increase velocity, quality, and team well-being, including thoughtful exploration of generative AI tools.
• Recruit and onboard a diverse group of talented engineers as the organization scales.
• Model Upwave’s values of humility, empathy, and collaboration, serving as a cultural steward for the entire engineering team.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing high-performing engineering teams that have delivered production-grade SaaS or enterprise software at scale.
• Strong technical curiosity and the ability to understand complex systems both at an architectural level and in technical detail.
• Systems-thinking approach to organizational change, balancing process improvements with care for individual team members.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to adapt messaging for different audiences and maintain alignment across stakeholders.
• Demonstrated humility and a service-oriented leadership style that elevates the best ideas regardless of their origin.
• Readiness to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, including a willingness to work hard during critical periods while supporting sustainable work-life balance.
• Fluency in English.

Preferred qualifications

• Deep familiarity with architectural patterns for cloud-native, data-intensive applications.
• Hands-on experience with modern web stacks such as React on the frontend and JVM languages (Java, Kotlin, or Groovy) on the backend, along with Python for AI and machine-learning workloads.
• Exposure to the adtech or martech ecosystem, marketing measurement techniques such as media mix modeling or attribution, and analytical methods including causal inference and machine learning.

Compensation

The annual base salary range for this role is $170,000 to $227,000. In addition to base salary, compensation includes equity and a benefits package that covers remote work, flexible hours, professional development opportunities, and paid time off.

How to apply

We welcome applications from qualified candidates who are excited to help shape the future of brand advertising measurement. Please submit your application through our careers portal, and a member of our recruiting team will follow up with next steps.