- Full Time
- Dublin, Ireland
Verve at a glance
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Verve
Who We Are
Verve has created a more efficient and privacy-focused way to buy and monetize advertising. Verve is an ecosystem of demand and supply technologies fusing data, media, and technology together to deliver results and growth to both advertisers and publishers–no matter the screen or location, no matter who, what, or where a customer is. With 30 offices across the globe and with an eye on servicing forward-thinking advertising customers, Verve’s solutions are trusted by more than 90 of the United States’ top 100 advertisers, 4,000 publishers globally, and the world’s top demand-side platforms. Learn more at verve.com.
Who You Are
Verve is expanding its central engineering hub in Dublin, and we are looking for a hands-on Backend Engineering Manager to help build and lead one of our core engineering teams. In this role, you will lead a team responsible for developing and scaling Verve’s core ad exchange and ad server functionality. This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys both people leadership and deep technical involvement. You are not only a manager. You are a technical leader who can understand complex systems, support engineers in their growth, contribute to architecture decisions, review code, unblock teams, and stay close to production systems
What You Will Do
People & Team Leadership
- Mentor, grow, and develop your direct reports, helping them chart their career paths.
- Lead agile team operations to ensure consistent, high-quality, and on-time software deliveries.
- Drive team growth by actively participating in hiring, interviewing, and performance reviews.
- Contribute to department-wide engineering initiatives, optimizing processes for both developer experience and business outcomes.
Technical Execution
- Maintain a deep, in-and-out understanding of our systems and architecture.
- Create new product increments, oversee deployments, and proactively monitor system health.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues alongside your team.
- Leverage and champion modern development practices, including agentic-assisted coding workflows.
What You Will Bring
- 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with system-level languages. (We are generally language-agnostic, but most of our stack is Java and Go).
- 3+ years of direct experience managing, leading, and growing a team of engineers.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Proven experience working with Cloud Computing platforms (GCP, AWS).
- Modern DevOps: Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) and containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- AI-Assisted Dev: Solid understanding and practical knowledge of agentic-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, or similar).
- Observability & IaC: Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform) and monitoring/alerting systems (Grafana, ELK).
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related scientific field.
What We Offer
- Stay healthy and covered with our comprehensive Health, Life, and Income Protection Insurances
- Save on everyday travels with our TaxSaver Commuter tickets
- Recharge with 23 paid vacation days + 3 Wellness days throughout the year, in addition to the public holidays
- Support your mental well-being with our Workplace Mental Health Solution
- Boost your professional knowledge with our annual training budget & internal webinars
- … and even more reasons to join us!
Verve provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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Working in Dublin, Ireland
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Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, part of the Wicklow Mountains range. Dublin is the largest city by population on the island of Ireland; at the 2022 census, the city council area had a population of 592,713, while the city, including suburbs, had a population of 1,263,219, and County Dublin had a population of 1,501,500. Various definitions of a metropolitan Greater Dublin Area exist.
Leinster is one of the four provinces of Ireland, in the east of the island.
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