At Digital Turbine, we want to create simpler ways for consumers to discover the apps and content they love.
Through our partnerships with leading carriers and OEMs, we create new frictionless experiences on smartphones that allow brands and advertisers to reach users at an unprecedented scale.
In a rapidly changing industry, we are always looking to create better paths of discovery to connect consumers, publishers, and advertisers in the mobile ecosystem.
As the Senior Android Director, you will guide your teams to drive high-quality technical execution and operational excellence in the delivery of software solutions that meet business needs and maximize customer experience, growth, and retention.
This person has the responsibility of developing teams spanning multiple technologies, with a focus on Android mobile application development.
These teams carry out the analysis, design, development, and implementation of large-scale software applications.
Ensures projects are completed within committed time and budget and are integrated with other software applications.
The Manager contributes to the development of policies, standards, and procedures.
The Manager manages the activities of individual contributors and supervisors within a business domain with accountability for objectives and key results.
Responsibilities
• Manage the development teams’ performance in the delivery of solutions including all aspects of software engineering: requirements collection and refinement, design, code, and test.
• Implementation of product features in collaboration with product owners and business stakeholders.
• The employment of Agile / Scrum methodology to deliver high-quality software releases.
• The development of awesome software that improves not only our business but moves the industry as a whole.
• Planning for, mentoring, and coaching of individual and professional development of staff software engineers, quality engineers, and scrum masters.
• Drive organization initiatives including Agile process maturity, automated testing, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous documentation.
• Maintain alignment of teams to business and technical delivery expectations and act as a point of contact for escalations and leadership communications.
• Refine and mature sometimes ambiguous/conceptual requirements and guide the technical team to implement solutions through solid engineering practice.
• Be unafraid to get hands dirty and expertly work side by side with other engineers to code, commit, PR, and merge to deliver the product.
• Identify and convert opportunities to evaluate new technologies and drive adoption to enhance business outcomes.
Skills & Experience
• 7+ years of experience developing Android applications in a team environment
• Extensive knowledge of modern Android CI/CD practices and configuration management
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience leading distributed software engineering teams in an IT/software field
• Experience with AWS
• Broad and demonstrated background in a wide variety of development tools, coding languages, source control, build management and other infrastructure
Preferred Qualifications
• Undergraduate degree in engineering, computer science, or work experience equivalent
• Extensive experience and thorough knowledge of Linux kernel and userland
• Demonstrated familiarity with Android platform architecture and roadmap
• Experience cooperatively developing solutions with OEMs to embed within their firmware
• Experience building Android (OSP) from source code
• Experience with Android NDK or Android framework development
• Exposure with Advertising Technology digital platforms (Google Ad Manager, DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP), etc.)
• Experience designing fault-tolerant and highly available distributed systems
• Understanding of various security patterns & controls and passion for learning new technologies
• Experience having managed and driven internal systems towards continuous improvement and operational efficiency, including instrumentation for reporting capabilities
About Digital Turbine
Digital Turbine is the largest independent mobile growth platform and levels up the landscape for advertisers, publishers, carriers, and OEMs.
By integrating a full ad stack with proprietary technology built into devices by wireless operators and OEMs, Digital Turbine supercharges advertising and monetization.
As a titan of ad tech, we simplify mobile growth and monetization for publishers and advertisers.
The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with global offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Berlin, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and other cities serving top agency, app developer, and advertising markets. Listed on Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for six consecutive years since 2015 and winner of Austin Chamber of Commerce’s Company Culture in 2020.
Digital Turbine is an equal opportunity employer and committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives!