Director, AI & Software Engineering

PMG's Alli is our proprietary, cloud-based suite of AI-powered tools for digital marketers. Last year, Alli enabled ad delivery to over 1 billion consumers in 80+ countries for some of the world's most iconic brands, including Apple, Nike, and McDonald's.

Established in Fort Worth in 2010, PMG was profitable from day one and has grown with no outside investment to 700+ employees currently working in 7 offices and remotely. The company is defined by its people-centered culture and has led AdAge's annual Best Places to Work list for 8 years in a row.

As PMG is transitioning into an AI-first organization, we are looking for engineers who want to build the impossible. Our team doesn't just dream up futuristic platforms - we ship them!

We use:

• AWS and GCP;
• Docker and Terraform;
• PHP, JavaScript, Go, Python and React;
• Redshift, BigQuery, Postgres, Mongo, Redis;
• OpenAI, Bedrock, Vertex, LangChain;
• GitHub, Jira, Confluence;
• SCRUM-inspired agile development process.

We are looking for engineers and engineering leaders who have:

• Passion for solving challenging problems by delivering clean and performant code;
• Profound understanding of distributed system design and data intensive applications;
• SOLID software engineering expertise (OOA/OOD, TDD, CI/CD);
• Strong adherence to agile values;
• Team-first, proactive approach to work and great communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead 2-4 distributed teams; each team consists of a manager and 3-9 engineers, each team is responsible for 1-3 products within the Alli suite;
• Provide technical oversight to the teams, lead (and/or participating in) the process of making key architectural decisions;
• Ensure teams deliver required functionality on time, based on the current product roadmap; partner with the Product team to evolve the roadmap based on customer feedback and team capacity; coordinate with key internal and external stakeholders; maintain a balance between developing new features and addressing technical debt;
• Assess current and upcoming needs for product development, acting to staff teams with qualified engineers by both up-skilling current ICs and hiring new ones, making sure team bandwidth and velocity keeps increasing over time while constantly raising the quality bar.

Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 5 years of experience in a senior engineering IC role;
• At least 3 years of experience in an engineering manager role while still being hands on;
• Experience in a manager-of-managers role;
• Deep expertise with modern technologies for building highly scalable data-intensive applications, good familiarity with at least 70% of our tech stack;
• Good understanding of/interest in MarTech domain

Additional Preferred Requirements

• Master's Degree
• Experience with GenAI

Successful Candidates will be Offered:

• A competitive compensation package (base salary, bonus, 401k, etc.);
• Leading benefits package (including full medical/dental/vision coverage);
• Amazing offices (with the best baristas in the tech industry);
• Support for conferences, courses, and certifications;
• Exciting projects with partners like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft