Tech Lead-MarTech

As a Tech Lead, you will manage a team of engineers, ensuring smooth delivery within an Agile framework. You will mentor team members, enforce best practices, be responsible for your team’s quality output, and actively contribute to improving development processes. You will also write code and pick up user stories to keep your team on track. This role requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams, ownership of technical excellence, and the ability to drive high-quality deliverables to enable our Marketing operations. 

This role is a hybrid role where employees must be on-site 2-3 days per week. Candidates also must be willing to travel on-site to complete onboarding orientation as dictated by the hiring team.

Home Office: Jersey City, NJ

What You Will Do: 

• Gain a Generalized System Understanding. Build a solid grasp of how data flows through the martech platform and the rationale behind each system component. This includes understanding the overall business strategy and how customer data points are collected and utilized to aid the marketing team 

• Set up, integrate, and administer various marketing tools. You will closely collaborate with the marketing team to ensure the setup aligns with and improves marketing processes 

• Build strong working relationships with marketing operations and your engineering team, to be a strategic partner in delivering new MarTech capabilities to drive down CPA, increase conversion rates and grow our customer base. 

• Develop, implement, and maintain best practices and standards that drive higher quality and operational excellence within your team. 

• Advocate for and oversee the delivery of high-quality, test-automated code. 

• Perform quality control by ensuring effective code reviews and addressing technical debt alongside product development. 

• Collaborate with Solutions Architects to create and review architectural documentation before team engagement. 

• Track your team’s technical debt and advocate for time to address technical issues alongside product development. 

• Ensure adherence to Agile/Scrum best practices throughout delivery in partnership with the Delivery Lead. 

• Collaborate with Product in planning activities, including sizing of work, identifying risks and dependencies, and assigning out user stories to team members. 

• Directly contribute to team efforts by picking up user stories each sprint. 

• Support developers through refinement, breaking down requirements into technical tasks, user story creation, and providing estimations. Push back on unrealistic timelines as needed. 

• Hold the team accountable throughout delivery, ensuring that the team follows appropriate processes. 

• Report out on progress against prioritized initiatives to stakeholders. Regularly communicate engineering risks and dependencies. 

• Support the team in feature readiness, including preparing for releases and deployments 

• Act as the direct manager of a team of engineers. Conduct regular 1:1s, provide mentorship, and deliver constructive feedback to foster team growth. 

• Support hiring and people management processes. 

What You Will Need: 

• 5+ years of progressive experience as a software engineer in a marketing technology domain. 

• Experience with CRM systems, marketing automation tools and data analytics platforms. This includes experience with tools such as Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, BigQuery, Snowflake 

• Proven ability to train, mentor, and guide engineers. 

• Demonstrated bias to action and ownership over key initiatives. 

• Extensive highly competent Full Stack engineering experience. Demonstrable experience of JavaScript, with languages such Swift, Java and Scala a plus. 

• Experience working with mobile development and mobile app analytics (e.g. Firebase, Appsflyer). 

• Expertise in Agile software product delivery and Scrum. 
  Strong delivery mind-set. 

• 1+ year experience managing software engineers preferred. 

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