Engineering Manager

Department: Engineering

Location: Germany

Employment Type: FullTime

Who is Nexxen?
Flexible advertising, unified by data. Nexxen empowers advertisers, agencies, publishers and broadcasters around the world to utilize data and advanced TV in the ways that are most meaningful to them. Our flexible and unified technology stack comprises a demand-side platform (“DSP”) and supply-side platform (“SSP”), with the Nexxen Data Platform at its core.

Why join the Nexxen team?
With a global footprint, you can be part of a team that is transforming advertising through our creative, flexible and unified solutions. Employees hustle, commit and dedicate themselves to pillars that make up the Nexxen Way – the 3Cs - Customer Centric, Curious Mindset, Collaborative with No Ego.

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We're looking for a Manager, Engineering to join our Data Engineering team in Frankfurt/Main. You will be leading one of our data platform teams, which is responsible for processing, storing, and serving data for all our core systems.

This role will be based in the Frankfurt office. Our team follows a hybrid schedule, working in the office three days a week and remotely for the rest.

Each day can be different here at Nexxen, but some of the things you can expect to be doing daily are:

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and mentor one of Nexxen's data lake teams within our data organization

• Take part in building & designing the next generation of big data solutions

• The hybrid role also includes hands-on development work

• Steer high-level projects with company-wide visibility

• Responsible for the team roadmap, team building, and execution of SW projects in the group.

• Collaboration with various stakeholders: developers, product managers, business operations, and customers 


• You will be responsible for end-to-end feature development and ownership, from design to production

• Research core technologies and integrations with external APIs and services.

What You’ll Bring:

• 2+ years of experience in leading an engineering team

• 6+ years of data engineering experience as a developer, tech lead, or architect

• 4+ years of experience in Java

• Strong system architecture knowledge

• Experience in building high-volume and scalable applications. 


• Experience with cluster technologies, distributed systems, or streaming applications

• Experience working with SQL and NOSQL databases. 


• Experience with aggregation pipelines (Hadoop, Spar,k or similar) 


• Experience in planning and steering projects from end to end

• Experience with Scrum and Kanban

• Working knowledge of Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, rollout plans


• Experience on application monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Mimir, DataDog, Kibana etc. 


• Proficient with Git version control system 


• BS in Computer Science or related degree 


• An excellent communicator with fluent spoken and written English skills.

• Proactive team player with a desire to impact our engineering team, our product and our customers.

Here at Nexxen, we like to think outside the box, so if you don’t tick every one of these- don’t worry! We would rather see your application than risk missing out on your potential. We also know our strength comes from our differences and varied life experiences, so we are committed to the value of diversity and inclusion in all its forms.

What benefits are there for me?

We want all our employees to have a brilliant work life balance, so we offer a range of benefits such as:

• Hybrid working with 3 days in the office and the remaining 2 remote

• Summer Fridays- leave at 3pm to start your weekend early in Summer

• No need to worry about holidays- we give you 30 days’ paid leave.

• Regular company events

• Plus, all the usual stuff –phone allowance and company laptop

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