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You’ll be responsible for creating an environment where engineers can do their best work-balancing execution, technical excellence, and long-term sustainability. This role sits at the intersection of people leadership and technical strategy, partnering closely with product, design, and other stakeholders to turn goals into well-delivered outcomes.\nIn this role, you’ll focus on growing individuals and teams while ensuring reliable delivery and continuous improvement. You’ll help set technical direction, establish healthy engineering practices, and remove obstacles that slow teams down. Success looks like a motivated, high-performing team, strong collaboration across disciplines, and software that is well-designed, maintainable, and aligned with business priorities.\nThis posting is for an existing vacancy (backfill).\nMinimum Requirements\n3+ years managing software engineering teams.\n\nProven ability to collaborate effectively with Product Managers, Designers, and stakeholders to plan, prioritize, and deliver customer-impacting product initiatives\n\nTrack record of hiring, mentoring, and performance-managing engineers across levels.\n\nPreferred Experience\nExperience with Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis, MySQL, Postgres, and Django.\n\nAd platform API expertise (Facebook, Google, Pinterest, etc.)\n\nExperience with CI/CD and DevOps.\n\n7+ years total engineering experience working with Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms.\n\nRole Responsibilities\nPeople leadership: Hire, mentor, and grow a mixed-level team with clear goals and regular feedback.\n\nOwn delivery planning and execution, including risk management and stakeholder communication.\n\nDeveloper velocity: Own SDLC and CI/CD governance, shorten feedback loops, streamline releases, and reduce engineering toil.\n\nCollaborate with product managers, designers and other stakeholders to build a product that our customers love.\n\nEnsure work is aligned with product strategy and customer outcomes.\n\nSet and evolve team-level technical direction in alignment with broader architecture.\n\nBuild a strong feedback culture focused on ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.\n\nEffectively collaborate with Product and other stakeholders to drive decisions and execution.\n\nAbout Vantage\nVantage is the first unified platform purpose-built for retail media orchestration, empowering enterprise retailers to seamlessly activate onsite, offsite, and in-store advertising. With a global presence in North America and Asia-Pacific, Vantage enables retailers to launch and grow their media networks through scalable technology and automated workflows, and is trusted by leading retailers like The Home Depot to power their retail media programs.\nFor a closer look at what we do, our culture, and our benefits, check out our about us and careers pages.\nRemote-First, Based in Toronto\nVantage is proudly headquartered in Toronto, but we’re a remote-first team spread across North America (and beyond). Our flexible work philosophy means team members can thrive from wherever they do their best work-whether that’s from a home office, a local café, or while adding stamps to their passport. With a remote-friendly setup, home office support, and annual company retreats, we stay connected, collaborative, and energized-no matter the time zone.\nVantage’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion\nVantage Analytics is fueled by the diversity of our talented employees. 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