Are you an ambitious engineer ready to take on new challenges and grow exceptionally in your career? Join our team Editors as a Senior Software Engineer and be at the forefront of transforming our Creative production tooling!

About the Team:

Smartly proudly houses Editor, the creative heart of our platform. We build the engine that brings advertising to life, providing the essential tools for scaling creative post-production through image, video, and HTML templates. Our customers rely on our creative production tooling to design, animate, and scale millions of assets, and your future team will be placed in the center of all of this effort.

We are a Helsinki based group of experts passionate about solving high-level frontend challenges. Our squad enables the world's largest brands to turn a single design into a global campaign by mastering complex state management and high-performance canvas-based interactions. We are tech-agnostic at heart but rely heavily on React and TypeScript to build a seamless and powerful design experience. We are constantly looking for ways to improve and are dedicated to taking our product and our craft to the next level.

Check out our Engineering at Smartly site to learn how our engineering and product development work.

As a Senior Software Engineer, You Will:

• Own vertical slices of the Editor platform, taking end-to-end responsibility for complex projects from design to deployment.
• Find the smallest possible increments to deliver value to our customers as quickly as possible.
• Partner closely with Product and UX to dissect complex requirements into well-designed and well-executed software.
• Lead technical design decisions and tradeoffs, balancing long-term architecture with immediate product needs.
• Be a core contributor to our Creative Engineering Group, ensuring our frontend and core packages remain performant and scalable.
• Act as a mentor and technical guide, elevating the team through constructive code reviews and sharing your expertise.
• Drive projects forward independently and proactively dispatching roadblocks.

What We’re Looking For:

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in building robust, complex web applications with a mastery of frontend development.
• Expertise in React and TypeScript, with a deep understanding of state management and performance optimization.
• Proven ability to drive projects independently, showing persistence and autonomy in the face of technical hurdles.
• Ambition and eagerness to excel and commitment to continuous growth
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English
• Strong analytical skills to translate a broad product vision into actionable technical tasks.
• Motivation for solving customers' problems and delivering value to customers at a fast pace
• Ability to work in a hybrid capacity from our Helsinki office 3 days a week.

What We Offer You:

• Inclusive Culture: Join a team of over 850 Smartlies representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries, we foster a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback.
• Global Impact: Be part of a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers and business growth.
• Wellbeing Focus: Enjoy generous healthcare packages, mental health services, and a healthy work-life balance with paid holidays and family leave.
• Total Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and ample career development opportunities.
• Hybrid Workplace: We work in a hybrid model, balancing office and remote work, with the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

What to Expect from Our Recruitment Experience:

• Meet your Recruiter: Get to know each other and learn about working at Smartly.
• Meet the Team Lead: Gain deeper insights into your future team.
• Meet the Team in Technical Interviews: Engage in an interactive coding interview followed by a discussion around Systems Design and Architecture.
• Meet the Leadership in a Final Meeting: A brief discussion with our VP of Engineering.

Apply Now and Shape Your Future with Smartly!

#LI-JF2 #LI-Hybrid

Are you passionate about building next-generation products with LLMs and generative AI? Do you want to work on technology that’s transforming how brands connect with people? Join our Meta team as an Engineering Manager! 

Our mission is to build the leading AI-first platform for full-funnel conversational commerce in messaging channels, combining performance marketing with deep audience insights. This means creating features that help marketers easily craft, adapt, and optimize high-performing ads and enabling more meaningful, creative, and effective conversations between brands and their audiences.

We are technology agnostic and always strive to choose the best tools for the job. On the backend, our favoured stack is Node.js in combination with TypeScript usually coupled with PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ. On the front-end side of things, React with TypeScript is the flavour du jour.

Our engineering teams consist of both product specialists and engineers, and alongside the lead engineer you will take the lead in delivering products and features in the right time with right content and brilliant quality. As an Engineering Manager, you will be in charge of getting the best out of people, through coaching, 1:1s, helping them build a development plan and in general removing blockers from the team's path.

About the team

This team owns the Meta offering, one of the most critical and widely used platforms in our ecosystem. Meta powers a large share of our customer workflows and operates at significant scale, requiring high standards for reliability, performance, and data integrity.

As part of this team, you will lead and contribute to key architectural and technical decisions, focusing on system performance, large-scale data processing, robust validation, and seamless integration with the Meta APIs. The work directly impacts how customers experience and trust our platform.

You will collaborate closely with a dedicated Product Manager, guide a well-balanced engineering team ranging from Junior to Staff level, and regularly engage with Meta engineers to ensure strong alignment, best practices, and forward-looking solutions.

What you’ll do…

• Lead an autonomous Fullstack development team. Lead by example.
• Facilitate team every day life. Enable them.
• Care about your team members' growth and development. Go far together.
• Tackle ambitious technical problems and add your mark to our Engineering culture. Help us grow.

What we’re looking for…

• You have experience throughout the full software life-cycle in an environment with multiple teams
• You have built and maintained large-scale, high-availability web applications with an active and growing user base
• You cares product accountability - we are using wide variation of product metrics to ensure our decisions are data driven
• You have experience in various agile development practices as well as the pragmatism to know which tradeoffs are acceptable and a sharp focus on delivery
• Ability to deliver constructive feedback that leads to meaningful changes and growth.
• Empathetic and user-focused: you care deeply about the product experience, you understand users’ motivations and frustrations, and you genuinely want to help them
• You have strong development and technical expertise. You will need to lead technical decisions in your team and might being hands-on when coaching the team members to new technical and professional heights, which can involve code reviews, pair programming, etc
• Ability to work from our Helsinki office three days a week

What We Offer You:

• Inclusive Culture: Join a team of over 800 Smartlies representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries, we foster a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback.
• Global Impact: Be part of a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers and business growth.
• Wellbeing Focus: Enjoy generous healthcare packages, mental health services, and a healthy work-life balance with paid holidays and family leave.
• Total Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and ample career development opportunities.
• Hybrid Workplace: We work in a hybrid model, balancing office and remote work, with the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Are you an ambitious Fullstack Engineer ready to take on new challenges and grow exceptionally in your career? Join our team Editor as a Software Engineer and be at the forefront of transforming our Creative production tooling!

About the Team:

Smartly proudly houses Editor, the creative heart of our platform. We build the engine that brings advertising to life, providing the essential tools for scaling creative post-production through image, video, and HTML templates. Our customers rely on our creative production tooling to design, animate, and scale millions of assets, and your future team will be placed in the center of all of this effort.

We are a Helsinki based group of experts passionate about solving high-level frontend challenges. Our squad enables the world's largest brands to turn a single design into a global campaign by mastering complex state management and high-performance canvas-based interactions. We are tech-agnostic at heart but rely heavily on React and TypeScript to build a seamless and powerful design experience. We are constantly looking for ways to improve and are dedicated to taking our product and our craft to the next level.

Check out our Engineering at Smartly site to learn how our engineering and product development work.

As a Software Engineer, You Will:

• Own features from technical design to completion, ensuring that your code is clean and follows best practices.
• Work fluently with Product Managers and Designers, actively supporting the product discovery process and identifying potential issues with requirements early on.
• Drive your own work independently, prioritizing tasks effectively to ensure steady progress on stories and team goals.
• Contribute to technical planning, helping the team map out how new features fit into our frontend monorepo and core packages.
• Be self-sufficient in large areas of our codebase, while maintaining a high-level understanding of how the Editor connects to other components.
• Solicit feedback and drive continuous improvement, both in your personal growth and in the team’s overall ways of working.

What We’re Looking For:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience building web applications, with a strong focus on frontend development and clean code.
• Solid expertise in React and TypeScript, with the ability to be productive and deliver high-quality work immediately.
• A self-driven mindset, with the ability to manage your own time and prioritize work without needing constant oversight.
• Strong collaborative skills, enjoying the process of working with Product and UX to bridge the gap between design and technical implementation.
• An eagerness to learn and improve, showing a track record of learning from mistakes and applying best practices to your work.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English
• Ability to work in a hybrid capacity from our Helsinki office 3 days a week.

What We Offer You:

• Inclusive Culture: Join a team of over 850 Smartlies representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries, we foster a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback.
• Global Impact: Be part of a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers and business growth.
• Wellbeing Focus: Enjoy generous healthcare packages, mental health services, and a healthy work-life balance with paid holidays and family leave.
• Total Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and ample career development opportunities.
• Hybrid Workplace: We work in a hybrid model, balancing office and remote work, with the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

What to Expect from Our Recruitment Experience:

• Meet your Recruiter: Get to know each other and learn about working at Smartly.
• Meet the Team Lead: Gain deeper insights into your future team.
• Meet the Team in Technical Interviews: Engage in an interactive coding interview followed by a discussion around Systems Design and Architecture.
• Meet the Leadership in a Final Meeting: A brief discussion with our VP of Engineering.

Apply Now and Shape Your Future with Smartly!

#LI-JF2 #LI-Hybrid

We’re looking for a Senior Fullstack Engineer to join Smartly and help shape the future of our multi-channel advertising platform.

You’ll be working on expanding Smartly into both new and existing advertising channels. Depending on the team, this can mean greenfield development of new integrations or evolving and scaling established ones like Pinterest.

While we can’t share all the details yet, this is a highly strategic area for the company with strong leadership visibility and direct revenue impact. Whether you’re building something new or improving existing integrations, the work goes beyond incremental changes. You’ll be building new capabilities, improving existing ones, and helping shape how different channels are integrated into our platform at scale.

In this role, you’ll design systems that power automation for some of the world’s largest advertisers. You’ll work closely with partners like Google, Reddit and Spotify, building deeply integrated solutions that enable customers to launch, optimize, and iterate campaigns efficiently.

You’ll also have the opportunity to explore how AI and automation shape the future of ad tech, and turn those ideas into production-grade systems.

This role is about ownership and technical influence. You’ll contribute to architectural direction, make trade-offs that balance scalability and product needs, and collaborate across teams to create a unified platform experience across channels.

We’re hiring for multiple positions across a range of seniority levels, and we’ll align the role scope and level based on each candidate’s experience during the hiring process.

Our tech stack

• Backend: Node.js, TypeScript
• Frontend: React, TypeScript
• Infrastructure: PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kubernetes
• Architecture: Distributed systems, event-driven services, large-scale data processing

What you’ll do

• Own the design and implementation of new platform integrations end-to-end
• Design and operate distributed, data-intensive systems and microservices at scale
• Build automation systems that process large volumes of campaign and performance data
• Develop and evolve client-facing APIs and backend services
• Drive architectural decisions and contribute to long-term technical direction
• Work across teams to align on shared patterns and unify channel behavior within the platform
• Partner closely with product and design to shape solutions, not just implement them
• Mentor other engineers and raise the bar for engineering quality and practices

What we’re looking for

• Strong experience building and operating production-grade systems with Node.js and TypeScript
• Solid frontend experience with React and modern web development practices
• Experience designing distributed systems and working with asynchronous, event-driven architectures
• Proven ability to build scalable systems that handle high data volumes
• Ability to take ownership of complex problems and drive them from concept to production
• Strong collaboration skills and experience working across teams and disciplines
• Interest in mentoring and contributing to team-level engineering practices
• Ability and willingness to work in a hybrid setup from our Helsinki office (3 days per week)

What We Offer You

At Smartly, we offer a place where you can advance your career. Here, you'll find:

An Inclusive Global Culture: Join a team of over 750 Smartlies, representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries. We cultivate a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback, where diverse perspectives are valued and encouraged.

Global Impact: Contribute to a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers' success and business growth.

Focus on Wellbeing: We prioritize your health with healthcare packages, mental health services, and a commitment to work-life balance through paid holidays and family leave.

Comprehensive Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and career development opportunities.

Flexible Hybrid Workplace: Experience a hybrid work model, balancing office collaboration with remote work, and the option to work abroad for up to 30 days annually.

Smartly is committed to being a great place for growth-minded individuals to thrive. Explore more in our Culture Handbook!

Apply Now and Build Your Future with Smartly!

Curious what it’s like to work at Smartly? Visit our Careers page to see how we grow, collaborate, and make impact together

#LI-HYBRID

We are seeking a Sr. Engineering Manager to join our 200+ product development organization and lead our ML Foundations team. This team focuses on solving complex machine learning problems and developing proprietary models for a range of AdTech use cases across our product suite.

As part of the AI Platform organization, you will lead a multidisciplinary team of Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Software Engineers working to accelerate AI adoption and development across Smartly’s Media, Creative, and Intelligence suite. The team ensures compliance with privacy, security, and ethical guidelines.

This is an opportunity to define the vision and strategy for ML and Data Science applications, drive execution on ambitious goals, and champion AI and ML excellence throughout Smartly.

Smartly is proud to be ranked as a leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Creative AdTech. This recognition reflects our commitment to transforming ad experiences through intelligent creativity, standing as the only platform honored by both Forrester and validated by PwC to be recognized for ad technology to power performance.

To get an idea of some of the work we do, see for example these blog posts:

How We Productized Bayesian Revenue Estimation with Stan

Optimizing Conversions with Predictive Budget Allocation

Here’s What You'll Do:

• Lead and grow the AI Foundations team, providing technical direction, strategic vision, and hands-on leadership.
• Drive the development of AdTech-specific ML models and foundational AI capabilities and explore novel approaches that can be applied across Smartly’s products. Optimize existing models for performance, efficiency, and scalability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other teams to ensure AI-driven features deliver measurable business and customer impact.
• Ensure compliance with privacy, security, and ethical AI standards in ML applications.
• Foster a strong engineering culture focused on innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor team members through coaching, 1:1s, and career development plans.
• Remove obstacles to enable your team to thrive and deliver exceptional results.
• Partner with recruiting to help scale the team by actively sourcing and closing the best talent. 
• Partner with other leaders in the AI Platform to shape Smartly’s long-term AI strategy and architecture.

Here's What We're Looking For…

• 7+ years of experience in building services and products.
• 5+ years of experience in applying machine learning to real-life problems.
• 3+ years of experience in leading teams.
• Competent with key technologies in ML; PyTorch, TensorFlow, Python, SQL.  
• Able to mentor, coach, and develop data scientists and machine learning engineers
• Proven experience in delivering scalable ML systems in production.  You will need to be hands-on when coaching the team members to new technical and professional heights, which can involve code reviews, pair programming, etc.
• A pragmatic mindset. We always aim to create value to our customers. We're also working on production systems and our customers' business depends on it.
• Curiosity and the drive to continuously learn through study and experimentation on the job.  
• Ability to drive both technical excellence and cross-functional collaboration.
• Understanding of security and compliance requirements when working with personal data.
• M.Sc. or Ph.D. in a relevant field (Mathematics, CS, AI, Physics, …).
• Excellent communication skills, written and spoken English and ability to work 3 days/week onsite at our Berlin office

What we offer you…

• Ownership Culture: Make a significant impact on our products with autonomy and ownership.
• Industry Collaboration: Collaborate with leading online marketers and platforms like Meta, Pinterest, Snap, TikTok, and Google.
• Professional Development: Access opportunities for growth through mentorship, training, and resources to enhance your skills.
• Wellbeing Focus: Prioritize your health with comprehensive healthcare packages and mental health services, plus a healthy work-life balance.
• Total Rewards: Everyone at Smartly is an owner with our equity options program and performance-based grants. We recognize success with compensation, benefits, and career development opportunities. 
• We work in a flexible hybrid work model, including the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

What to Expect from Our Recruitment Experience:

• Meet your Recruiter: Get to know each other and learn about working at Smartly.
• Meet the Team Manager: Gain deeper insights into your future team.
• Meet the Team in Subject Matter Interviews: Engage in a case study and showcase your domain knowledge.
• Meet the Leadership in a Final Meeting: A brief discussion with our Chief Technical Officer.

Apply now and shape the future of digital advertising!

We are seeking a Sr. Engineering Manager to join our 200+ product development organization and lead our ML Foundations team. This team focuses on solving complex machine learning problems and developing proprietary models for a range of AdTech use cases across our product suite.

As part of the AI Platform organization, you will lead a multidisciplinary team of Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and Software Engineers working to accelerate AI adoption and development across Smartly’s Media, Creative, and Intelligence suite. The team ensures compliance with privacy, security, and ethical guidelines.

This is an opportunity to define the vision and strategy for ML and Data Science applications, drive execution on ambitious goals, and champion AI and ML excellence throughout Smartly.

Smartly is proud to be ranked as a leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Creative AdTech. This recognition reflects our commitment to transforming ad experiences through intelligent creativity, standing as the only platform honored by both Forrester and validated by PwC to be recognized for ad technology to power performance.

To get an idea of some of the work we do, see for example these blog posts:

How We Productized Bayesian Revenue Estimation with Stan

Optimizing Conversions with Predictive Budget Allocation

Here’s What You'll Do:

• Lead and grow the AI Foundations team, providing technical direction, strategic vision, and hands-on leadership.
• Drive the development of AdTech-specific ML models and foundational AI capabilities and explore novel approaches that can be applied across Smartly’s products. Optimize existing models for performance, efficiency, and scalability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other teams to ensure AI-driven features deliver measurable business and customer impact.
• Ensure compliance with privacy, security, and ethical AI standards in ML applications.
• Foster a strong engineering culture focused on innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor team members through coaching, 1:1s, and career development plans.
• Remove obstacles to enable your team to thrive and deliver exceptional results.
• Partner with recruiting to help scale the team by actively sourcing and closing the best talent. 
• Partner with other leaders in the AI Platform to shape Smartly’s long-term AI strategy and architecture.

Here's What We're Looking For…

• 7+ years of experience in building services and products.
• 5+ years of experience in applying machine learning to real-life problems.
• 3+ years of experience in leading teams.
• Competent with key technologies in ML; PyTorch, TensorFlow, Python, SQL.  
• Able to mentor, coach, and develop data scientists and machine learning engineers
• Proven experience in delivering scalable ML systems in production.  You will need to be hands-on when coaching the team members to new technical and professional heights, which can involve code reviews, pair programming, etc.
• A pragmatic mindset. We always aim to create value to our customers. We're also working on production systems and our customers' business depends on it.
• Curiosity and the drive to continuously learn through study and experimentation on the job.  
• Ability to drive both technical excellence and cross-functional collaboration.
• Understanding of security and compliance requirements when working with personal data.
• M.Sc. or Ph.D. in a relevant field (Mathematics, CS, AI, Physics, …).
• Excellent communication skills, written and spoken English and ability to work 3 days/week onsite at our Helsinki office

What we offer you…

• Ownership Culture: Make a significant impact on our products with autonomy and ownership.
• Industry Collaboration: Collaborate with leading online marketers and platforms like Meta, Pinterest, Snap, TikTok, and Google.
• Professional Development: Access opportunities for growth through mentorship, training, and resources to enhance your skills.
• Wellbeing Focus: Prioritize your health with comprehensive healthcare packages and mental health services, plus a healthy work-life balance.
• Total Rewards: Everyone at Smartly is an owner with our equity options program and performance-based grants. We recognize success with compensation, benefits, and career development opportunities. 
• We work in a flexible hybrid work model, including the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

What to Expect from Our Recruitment Experience:

• Meet your Recruiter: Get to know each other and learn about working at Smartly.
• Meet the Team Manager: Gain deeper insights into your future team.
• Meet the Team in Subject Matter Interviews: Engage in a case study and showcase your domain knowledge.
• Meet the Leadership in a Final Meeting: A brief discussion with our Chief Technical Officer.

Apply now and shape the future of digital advertising!

Smartly is looking for a (Senior) Manager, Data Platform to lead the next stage of our data platform evolution. This role will lead two complementary squads - Data Engineering & Data Analytics - under one shared vision, while keeping each squad’s mission and operating model distinct.

The focus is on building the foundations of Smartly’s data platform, strengthening data engineering practices, and modelling. You will help make trusted, scalable, and self-serve data a reality across the company, while staying close enough to the work to set the bar for quality, insight, and execution.

In this role, you will

• Lead both squads, aligning them around a common data platform vision while preserving their distinct responsibilities and ways of working.
• Own the development and evolution of the data platform, including data warehouses, pipelines, transformation layers, data models, semantic foundations, and core reporting assets.
• Drive the platform toward stronger engineering excellence, with a focus on automation, governance, data contracts, lineage, observability, alerting, reliability, and scalable platform operations.
• Guide the team toward stronger modelling, building enriched, reusable, and trusted data assets, enabling self-serve data capabilities, and enabling teams across Product, Commercial, and other functions.
• Define and prioritise the data platform roadmap, turning recurring support requests and operational pain points into durable platform improvements and better data products.
• Stay hands-on enough with data, modelling, and insight work to guide decisions, unblock teams, and demonstrate what high-quality work looks like in practice.
• Establish and uphold high standards for data quality, validation, freshness, availability, and correctness, including clear ownership and response protocols for issues.
• Coach and grow the teams across modelling, validation, testing, communication, and business understanding.
• Promote a data-informed culture by replacing fragmented and static reporting with consistent, trusted, and reusable data assets and live reporting.

What we are looking for

• Strong technical foundations in data engineering, data warehousing, data modelling, and analytics.
• Experience building or scaling a modern data platform in a product, SaaS, or similarly data-intensive environment.
• Ability to credibly lead discussions on topics such as data pipelines, warehouse design, modelling, reliability, governance, and real-time or near-real-time data flows.
• Track record of leading cross-functional or multidisciplinary teams, ideally spanning both platform and analytics work.
• Strong product and business orientation, with the ability to translate ambiguous needs into scalable data solutions and clear priorities.
• Hands-on experience with modern data tooling and ways of working; familiarity with tools such as BigQuery, dbt, orchestration frameworks, semantic layers, and observability tooling is a strong plus.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to present data and insights clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfort working in an environment with ambiguity, evolving priorities, and significant room to shape the future state.
• A builder mindset, high ownership, and a pragmatic approach to creating structure while moving fast.
• Advanced education in a relevant field is a plus, but equivalent practical experience is equally valuable.
• Ability and willingness to work from our Helsinki office three days a week

What we offer you: 

• Inclusive Culture: Join a team of over 800 Smartlies representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries, we foster a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback.
• Global Impact: Be part of a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers and business growth.
• Wellbeing Focus: Enjoy generous healthcare packages, mental health services, and a healthy work-life balance with paid holidays and family leave.
• Total Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and ample career development opportunities.
• Hybrid Workplace: We work in a hybrid model, balancing office and remote work, with the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being a great place for growth-minded individuals to thrive. Explore more in our Culture Handbook!

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to join team Aqueduct, a team building our data platform for powering large-scale cross-platform advertising. Our ideal candidate is a seasoned professional who has experience in designing, implementing and managing data platforms and pipelines that are scalable, reliable and efficient.

For our customers, ensuring their data is available and composable can:

• unlock the potential of creative automation with image and video templates
• power agentic workflows that utilise the data
• allow analysis of the relationship between product data and ad performance.

Being able to sync our customers’ product data across multiple advertising channels consistently and with minimal delays ensures that:

• the ads consumers see have the latest information
• products that are out of stock are not advertised
• regulatory requirements are met

The team currently has a backend written in Ruby on Rails, and we own small parts of the frontend written in TypeScript and React. We’re moving our data systems from Ruby to a language and architecture better suited for the workload and capable of scaling with our growth. We're looking for an expert to lead the build and design of this new platform using the right tools for the job.

Projects you get to work with

• Design and build a large scale data storage and processing system that needs to process billions of records per day
• Drive the long term architecture and engineering excellence inside the team by coaching and mentoring other engineers
• Collaborate with stakeholders from across the organization: engineering, product and business
• Define and monitor SLAs, and follow SRE best practices to ensure the stability and availability of the system
• Build APIs for internal and external consumers of the data
• Affect the ROI for billions of dollars in ad spend

What We Are Looking For

• 8+ years of industry experience
• Strong programming skills (e.g., Python, Scala and/or Java)
• Deep experience with data processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Flink, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, ClickHouse)
• Familiarity with streaming systems (e.g Kafka, Kinesis)
• Expertise in SQL and some RDBMS (PostgreSQL, Citus, etc.)
• Experience with orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Argo)
• Experience with data governance tools (e.g., OpenMetadata, GreatExpectations, Apache Atlas, dbt)
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Proven track record of designing large-scale data systems
• Experience in technical leadership and mentoring other engineers
• Experience with Ruby on Rails is considered a plus
• Ability to work in a hybrid capacity from our Helsinki office 3 days a week 

What We Offer You

At Smartly, we offer a place where you can advance your career. Here, you'll find:

An Inclusive Global Culture: Join a team of over 750 Smartlies, representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries. We cultivate a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback, where diverse perspectives are valued and encouraged.

Global Impact: Contribute to a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers' success and business growth.

Focus on Wellbeing: We prioritize your health with healthcare packages, mental health services, and a commitment to work-life balance through paid holidays and family leave.

Comprehensive Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and career development opportunities.

Flexible Hybrid Workplace: Experience a hybrid work model, balancing office collaboration with remote work, and the option to work abroad for up to 30 days annually.

Smartly is committed to being a great place for growth-minded individuals to thrive. Explore more in our Culture Handbook!

Apply Now and Build Your Future with Smartly!

Curious what it’s like to work at Smartly? Visit our Careers page to see how we grow, collaborate, and make impact together

#LI-HYBRID

This role sits at the core of Smartly’s data platform, powering the reporting systems that some of the world’s largest and most influential brands rely on to make real time decisions. 

You’ll join the Bobby Tables team, which is responsible for ingesting, transforming, and serving tens of billions of data points across global advertising channels. This is the engine behind Smartly’s reporting and cross-channel analytics, turning fragmented, high volume data into a unified, real time, and highly flexible analytical experience.

You’ll design and optimize systems that execute complex queries over massive datasets with low latency, while ensuring reliability and consistency across a constantly evolving ecosystem of advertising channels and 3rd-party integrations. The work involves pushing the limits of distributed data processing, and enabling customers to explore their performance analytics with speed and precision.

Your contributions will directly shape how global brands understand, measure, and act on their advertising performance in real time, at a massive scale.

What You Will Do

• Design and build systems that support high-scale reporting and analytics workloads
• Improve OLAP performance and optimize data access patterns across large datasets
• Develop solutions that unify data from multiple external ad channels with varying structures
• Own projects from definition through delivery, ensuring high quality and reliability
• Work with technologies such as Ruby, TypeScript, Kafka, and modern data storage systems (PostgreSQL/Citus, Clickhouse, Redis)
• Mentor engineers and support the team in maintaining a high engineering standard

What We Are Looking For

• Strong experience building and operating data-intensive and high-scale systems
• Experience working with OLAP workloads and query performance optimization
• Must have strong experience with relational databases (such as PostgreSQL, MS SQL, MySQL etc.), experience with ClickHouse or other columnar databases is a plus
• Ability to design systems that handle varying data structures and integrations
• Comfortable working across the stack when needed
• Ability to take ownership of complex problems and drive them to practical solutions
• Clear communication skills and a collaborative approach to working with others

What We Offer You

At Smartly, we offer a place where you can advance your career. Here, you'll find:

An Inclusive Global Culture: Join a team of over 750 Smartlies, representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries. We cultivate a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback, where diverse perspectives are valued and encouraged.

Global Impact: Contribute to a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers' success and business growth.

Focus on Wellbeing: We prioritize your health with healthcare packages, mental health services, and a commitment to work-life balance through paid holidays and family leave.

Comprehensive Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and career development opportunities.

Flexible Hybrid Workplace: Experience a hybrid work model, balancing office collaboration with remote work, and the option to work abroad for up to 30 days annually.

Smartly is committed to being a great place for growth-minded individuals to thrive. Explore more in our Culture Handbook!

Apply Now and Build Your Future with Smartly!

Curious what it’s like to work at Smartly? Visit our Careers page to see how we grow, collaborate, and make impact together

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We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to join Smartly’s Creative Engineering group to lead a team responsible for building and maintaining integrations with multiple advertising platforms. The team plays a key role in enabling Smartly’s creative offering by ensuring our systems connect seamlessly with external partner APIs and services at scale.

The team designs, builds, and operates high-scale integration services that are relied on by some of the world’s largest advertisers. These integrations are a critical part of how creatives are delivered, managed, and optimized across channels, making the team’s work central to the overall product experience.

The main technologies used by the team include:

• Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes
• React for selected UI workflows
• Deep integrations with external advertising platforms and the broader Smartly infrastructure

As an Engineering Manager, your role is to ensure the team focuses on the highest priority work with predictable timelines, delivering high quality outcomes with clarity of purpose, while building reliable and scalable systems that our customers can trust.

What you’ll do:

• Lead and facilitate an autonomous Fullstack team responsible for the end-to-end delivery of channel integration, working closely with your product manager counterparts to align priorities and drive impact.
• Champion team member growth through coaching, regular 1:1s, and clear personal development planning, fostering a culture of technical excellence.
• Identify blockers and tackle ambitious technical problems to add your mark to our engineering culture.

What we’re looking for:

• You are an experienced people leader with proven ability in building and leading high-performing teams
• You have experience throughout the full software life-cycle in an environment with high-availability demands and active user-base
• You have experience in various agile development practices as well as the pragmatism to know which tradeoffs are acceptable and a sharp focus on delivery.
• You have empathic and user-focused mentality: you care deeply about the product experience, you understand users’ motivations and frustrations, and you genuinely want to help them
• You are comfortable being hands-on to guide the team on technical decisions, system design and best engineering practices.
• You have the ability to work from our Helsinki office three days a week

What We Offer You

At Smartly, we offer a place where you can advance your career. Here, you'll find:

An Inclusive Global Culture: Join a team of over 750 Smartlies, representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries. We cultivate a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback, where diverse perspectives are valued and encouraged.

Global Impact: Contribute to a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers' success and business growth.

Focus on Wellbeing: We prioritize your health with healthcare packages, mental health services, and a commitment to work-life balance through paid holidays and family leave.

Comprehensive Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and career development opportunities.

Flexible Hybrid Workplace: Experience a hybrid work model, balancing office collaboration with remote work, and the option to work abroad for up to 30 days annually.

Smartly is committed to being a great place for growth-minded individuals to thrive. Explore more in our Culture Handbook!

Apply Now and Build Your Future with Smartly!

Curious what it’s like to work at Smartly? Visit our Careers page to see how we grow, collaborate, and make impact together

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We’re looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our team at Smartly to help build a brand-new integration to our platform. While we can’t publicly share all the details just yet, this is an exciting greenfield project that will connect us with world-leading tech partners and serve some of the largest organizations in the world.

You’ll play a key role in shaping the architecture and implementation from the ground up, so we’re looking for someone who thrives in ownership, values clean and scalable solutions, and enjoys working closely with both engineers and product stakeholders.

The main technologies in our stack are Node.js, React & TypeScript.

As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, you will:

• Have end-to-end ownership of a new platform integration
• Design, build and monitor data-intensive microservices systems
• Collaborate closely with other engineers, product managers and designers to deliver cutting edge solutions for our clients
• Take part and facilitate team activities such as dailies, retros and brainstorming sessions
• Coach and mentor other members of the team to follow best practices and industry standards

What we are looking for:

• Experience in backend development using modern technologies such as Node.js and Typescript
• Experience in UI development (React & Typescript)
• Experience in building robust, complex and distributed web applications
• Motivation for solving customers problems and delivering value to customers at a fast pace
• Strong collaboration skills & ability to coach other engineers in the team
• Ability to work in a hybrid capacity from our Helsinki office 3 days a week 

What We Offer You:

• Inclusive Culture: Join a team of over 750 Smartlies representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries, we foster a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback.
• Global Impact: Be part of a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers and business growth.
• Wellbeing Focus: Enjoy generous healthcare packages, mental health services, and a healthy work-life balance with paid holidays and family leave.
• Total Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and ample career development opportunities.
• Hybrid Workplace: We work in a hybrid model, balancing office and remote work, with the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

What to Expect from Our Recruitment Experience:

• Meet your Recruiter: Get to know each other and learn about working at Smartly.
• Meet the Team Lead: Gain deeper insights into your future team.
• Meet the Team in Technical Interviews: Engage in an interactive coding interview followed by a discussion around Systems Design and Architecture.
• Meet the Leadership in a Final Meeting: A brief discussion with our SVP of Engineering.

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Are you an ambitious engineer ready to take on meaningful challenges and accelerate your growth? We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our 250+ person Product & Engineering organization at Smartly.

Our engineering team builds the technology that powers creative automation for some of the world’s largest brands. We enable them to turn a single idea into high-performing, global campaigns by delivering fast, scalable, and intuitive creative tools used at massive scale. Increasingly, we’re also building AI-driven workflows that help customers generate, adapt, and optimize creatives in smarter ways.

As a frontend engineer, you’ll tackle complex challenges across performance, scalability, and user experience. You’ll build responsive, reliable interfaces that make sophisticated capabilities feel simple and delightful. Work is done closely with designers, product managers, and backend engineers to craft features that our customers will genuinely love and depend on.

We’re focused on React and TypeScript as our core frontend stack, and continuously evolve how we use them to build performant, maintainable, and scalable products. We care deeply about engineering craftsmanship, product quality, and continuous improvement, always looking for better ways to build, simplify, and scale.

Check out our Engineering at Smartly site to learn how our engineering and product development work.

As a Senior Software Engineer, You Will:

• Take an end-to-end responsibility for complex projects from design to deployment.
• Find the smallest possible increments to deliver value to our customers as quickly as possible.
• Partner closely with Product and UX to dissect complex requirements into well-designed and well-executed software.
• Lead technical design decisions and tradeoffs, balancing long-term architecture with immediate product needs.
• Be a core contributor to our Engineering Group, ensuring our frontend and core packages remain performant and scalable.
• Act as a mentor and technical guide, elevating the team through constructive code reviews and sharing your expertise.
• Drive projects forward independently and proactively dispatching roadblocks.

What We’re Looking For:

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in building robust, complex web applications with a mastery of frontend development.
• Expertise in React and TypeScript, with a deep understanding of state management and performance optimization.
• Proven ability to drive projects independently, showing persistence and autonomy in the face of technical hurdles.
• Ambition and eagerness to excel and commitment to continuous growth
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English
• Strong analytical skills to translate a broad product vision into actionable technical tasks.
• Motivation for solving customers' problems and delivering value to customers at a fast pace
• Ability to work on-site at our Mexico City office 3 days per week

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

What to Expect from Our Recruitment Experience:

• Meet your Recruiter: Get to know each other and learn about working at Smartly.
• Meet the Team Lead: Gain deeper insights into your future team.
• Meet the Team in Technical Interviews: Engage in an interactive coding interview followed by a discussion around Systems Design and Architecture.
• Meet the Leadership in a Final Meeting: A brief discussion with our VP of Engineering.

Apply Now and Shape Your Future with Smartly!

Are you an ambitious engineer ready to take on meaningful challenges and accelerate your growth? We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our 250+ person Product & Engineering organization at Smartly.

Our engineering team builds the systems that power creative automation for some of the world’s largest brands. We enable them to turn a single idea into high-performing, global campaigns by building scalable, reliable infrastructure and services that operate at massive scale. Increasingly, we’re also developing AI-driven workflows that help customers generate, adapt, and optimize creatives in smarter ways.

As a backend engineer, you’ll design and build robust services, APIs, and data pipelines that power our product end-to-end. You’ll work on challenges around scalability, performance, and reliability, ensuring our systems can handle large volumes of data and complex workflows with ease. You’ll collaborate closely with frontend engineers, designers, and product managers to deliver features that our customers will genuinely love and depend on.

Our backend stack is built around Node.js and TypeScript, and we place strong emphasis on writing clean, maintainable code and building systems that scale. We care deeply about engineering craftsmanship, product quality, and continuous improvement, always looking for better ways to build, simplify, and operate our services.

Check out our Engineering at Smartly site to learn how our engineering and product development work.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will:

• Have end-to-end ownership of a new platform integration
• Design, build and monitor data-intensive microservices systems
• Collaborate closely with other engineers, product managers and designers to deliver cutting edge solutions for our clients
• Take part and facilitate team activities such as dailies, retros and brainstorming sessions
• Coach and mentor other members of the team to follow best practices and industry standards
  
  

What we are looking for:

• Experience in backend development using modern technologies such as Node.js and Typescript
• Experience in building robust, complex and distributed web applications
• Motivation for solving customers problems and delivering value to customers at a fast pace
• Strong collaboration skills & ability to coach other engineers in the team
• You are able to work on-site at our Mexico City office 3 days per week

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

What to Expect from Our Recruitment Experience:

• Meet your Recruiter: Get to know each other and learn about working at Smartly.
• Meet the Team Lead: Gain deeper insights into your future team.
• Meet the Team in Technical Interviews: Engage in an interactive coding interview followed by a discussion around Systems Design and Architecture.
• Meet the Leadership in a Final Meeting: A brief discussion with our VP of Engineering.

Apply Now and Shape Your Future with Smartly!

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Are you an enthusiastic Software Engineer who’s ready to embark on new challenges and take your career to new heights? Join our team at Enigma in Helsinki as a Senior Software Engineer, and play a pivotal role in building our secure and scalable Identity and Access Management system.

About the Team:

As part of the Infrastructure Group at Smartly, Enigma is dedicated to managing Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Billing operations. We tackle complex challenges to ensure secure authentication, flexible authorization, and an efficient Billing Engine for our leading SaaS platform. For references on what problem we’re trying to solve:

• User Identity and Access Management, including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
• Authentication and login methods, including Single Sign-On (SSO) with SAML and OpenID.
• Authorization mechanisms to control access to various modules of our platform to fit the needs of different customers.

We develop and maintain several microservices built mainly using TypeScript, NodeJS, Koa, KnexJS, Postgres, Kafka and run in our Kubernetes clusters. This job position is targeted for a role in the Identity and Access Management domain of the team.

Check out our Engineering at Smartly site to learn how our engineering and product development work.

As a Senior Software Engineer, You Will:

• Architect, design, and document new features and system enhancements, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability for our complex, distributed systems.
• Apply professional software engineering practices, including the selection, design, and implementation of various architectural and design patterns.
• Translate architectural designs into maintainable, robust, high-quality code primarily using NodeJS and TypeScript.
• Develop and maintain APIs for consumption by other backend services or frontend code.
• Collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including product management, infrastructure, and support functions.

What We’re Looking For:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in designing, architecting, and building robust, complex, and distributed web applications, where system-level design was a core responsibility. Writing code is not enough; we need proven expertise in system thinking.
• Demonstrable professionalism in knowing how to design, document, and implement different architectural and design patterns.
• Strong backend development skills with NodeJS & TypeScript with a good understanding of frontend technologies (React).
• Bonus points for knowledge about different IAM-related solutions/technologies (such as Auth0, OAuth, OpenID & SAML, Google Zanzibar).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Proactive attitude and a passion for taking initiative.
• Ability to work hybridly, spending at least 3 days a week in our Helsinki office.

What We Offer You:

• Inclusive Culture: Join a team of over 750 Smartlies representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries, and we foster a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback.
• Global Impact: Be part of a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers and business growth.
• Wellbeing Focus: Enjoy generous healthcare packages, mental health services, and a healthy work-life balance with paid holidays and family leave.
• Total Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and ample career development opportunities.
• Hybrid Workplace: Experience a hybrid work model, balancing office and remote work, with the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

What to Expect from Our Recruitment Experience:

• Meet your Recruiter: Get to know each other and learn about working at Smartly.io.
• Meet the Team Lead: Gain deeper insights into your future team.
• Meet the Team in Technical Interviews: Engage in interactive coding and Systems Design discussions with the team.
• Meet the Leadership in a Final Meeting: A brief discussion with our Engineering Director.

Apply Now and Shape Your Future with Smartly.io!

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to join Smartly's Media Engineering group to lead the team responsible for developing Smartly's existing TikTok product. The team designs, builds and maintains the integration in close partnership with TikTok’s representatives. The main technologies used by the team include:

• Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes
• React for core UI workflows
• Seamless integrations with the broader Smartly infrastructure

Read more about our Media Suite here and about our developer ways of working here.

As an Engineering Manager, your role is to ensure the team delivers the right things at the right time with high quality and clarity of purpose.

What you’ll do:

• Lead and facilitate an autonomous Fullstack team responsible for the end-to-end delivery of channel integration.
• Champion team member growth through coaching, regular 1:1s, and clear personal development planning, fostering a culture of technical excellence.
• Identify blockers and tackle ambitious technical problems to add your mark to our engineering culture.

What we’re looking for:

• You are an experienced people leader with proven ability in building and leading high-performing teams
• You have experience throughout the full software life-cycle in an environment with high-availability demands and active user-base
• You have experience in various agile development practices as well as the pragmatism to know which tradeoffs are acceptable and a sharp focus on delivery.
• You have empathic and user-focused mentality: you care deeply about the product experience, you understand users’ motivations and frustrations, and you genuinely want to help them
• You are comfortable being hands-on to guide the team on technical decisions, system design and best engineering practices.
• You have the ability to work from our Helsinki office three days a week

Our interview process:

• Meet your Recruiter: Get to know each other and learn about working at Smartly.
• Meet the Lead: Gain deeper insights into your future role.
• Meet the Team in Technical Interviews: Engage in a discussion around Systems Design and Architecture.
• Meet the HRBP: Discuss about your Leadership Experience
• Meet the Leadership in a Final Meeting: A brief discussion with our SVP of Engineering.

Apply Now and Shape Your Future with Smartly!

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We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our SRE team within our Infrastructure & Production group. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is responsible for our infrastructure development and maintenance. Our architecture consists of both cloud and bare metal solutions.

We believe in automating our infrastructure as much as possible and pursuing challenging problems in a sustainable and repeatable way. Currently, our infrastructure processes petabytes of data every month through thousands of servers and we are moving towards a Hybrid Cloud environment where we utilize the best of both worlds to build scalable production and development environments. Our team utilizes SRE and DevOps principles as our way of working.

Our toolchain

• Hybrid Cloud: 2500+ dedicated servers, supplemented with a mix of private and public cloud
• Infrastructure as code: Ansible and Terraform and AWS CDK
• Kubernetes “the hard way” on 2000+ dedicated servers
• We also run supporting infrastructure like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, VictoriaMetrics, HAProxy, Clickhouse, Aiven, Kafka and more

We are currently working in a hybrid mode where the team visits the office three days a week. 

You'll need:

• Production experience with distributed/scalable systems and/or high traffic web applications
• Experience in running large scale production with Kubernetes.
• Experience working with public cloud environments, preferably AWS.
• Experience with configuration management systems such as Ansible.
• Extensive knowledge of the Linux operating system.
• Troubleshooting skills that range from diagnosing low-level OS issues to large-scale failures within distributed systems
• Knowledge of how the web works and HTTP fundamentals
• Knowledge of IP networking, DNS, load balancing and firewalling
• Knowledge in good security practices, including network security, system hardening, secure software.
• Ability and willingess to work three days a week in our Helsinki office.

Bonus points, if you have:

• Good knowledge of at least one programming language. Smartly uses e.g. Python, Ruby and NodeJS
• Experience in containerising applications and deployment to production (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience in building large scale modern infrastructure in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, etc)
• Experience in SQL, building complex queries and debugging query performance
• Experience with SQL databases like PostgreSQL, NoSQL stores like Redis or anything in between
• Familiarity with automated build pipelines, continuous integration, delivery and deployment. Currently we're deploying to production ~2000 times/week.
• Experience building large-scale data processing pipelines

What We Offer You:

• Inclusive Culture: Join a team of over 800 Smartlies representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries, we foster a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback.
• Global Impact: Be part of a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers and business growth.
• Wellbeing Focus: Enjoy generous healthcare packages, mental health services, and a healthy work-life balance with paid holidays and family leave.
• Total Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and ample career development opportunities.
• Hybrid Workplace: We work in a hybrid model, balancing office and remote work, with the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being a great place for growth-minded individuals to thrive. Explore more in our Culture Handbook!

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We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team within our Infrastructure & Production group. DevOps Tooling & Developer Experience (Vulcan) spearheads our cloud developer experience, builds tools that build the tools and owns our big data platforms & pipelines.

We believe in automating our infrastructure as much as possible and pursuing challenging problems in a sustainable and repeatable way. Currently, our infrastructure processes petabytes of data every month through hundreds of servers and we are moving towards a Hybrid Cloud environment where we utilize the best of both worlds to build scalable production and development environments.

We work on many aspects of developer tooling at Smartly.io, from CI (we use GitHub Actions mostly) to our own development environment management tool (Devbox) that manages development environments for developers. We are helping other Smartly developers to be more effective in their day-to-day work.

As an Engineering Manager, you will be in charge of getting the best out of people, through coaching, 1:1s, helping them build a development plan and in general removing blockers from the team's path.

Tech Stack: AWS, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, Logstash, GitHub Actions, Grafana, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch, VictoriaMetrics

Read more about the our culture and developer ways of working: https://www.smartly.io/engineering-hub 

What You Will Do

• Lead an autonomous DevOps Tooling & Developer Experience (Vulcan) team. Lead by example.
• Lead developer tools development and strategy.
• Drive a cloud developer experience development.
• Facilitate the team at team level. Enable them.
• Care about your team members' growth and development. Go far together.
• Tackle ambitious technical problems and add your mark to our Engineering culture. Help us grow.

What We Are Looking For

• You are an experienced people leader with proven ability in building and leading high-performing teams
• You have experience throughout the full software life-cycle in an environment with multiple teams
• You have built and maintained large-scale, high-availability public cloud infrastructures with an active and growing user base
• You have experience in various agile development practices as well as the pragmatism to know which tradeoffs are acceptable and a sharp focus on delivery.
• Ability to deliver constructive feedback that leads to meaningful changes and growth.
• Empathetic and user-focused: you care deeply about the developer experience, you understand developers motivations and frustrations, and you genuinely want to help them
• You are a skilled engineer. You will need to be also hands-on when coaching the team members to new technical and professional heights, which can involve code reviews, pair programming, etc.
• Ability and willingness to work from our Helsinki office three days a week

What We Offer You

At Smartly, we offer a place where you can advance your career. Here, you'll find:

An Inclusive Global Culture: Join a team of over 750 Smartlies, representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries. We cultivate a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback, where diverse perspectives are valued and encouraged.

Global Impact: Contribute to a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers' success and business growth.

Focus on Wellbeing: We prioritize your health with healthcare packages, mental health services, and a commitment to work-life balance through paid holidays and family leave.

Comprehensive Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and career development opportunities.

Flexible Hybrid Workplace: Experience a hybrid work model, balancing office collaboration with remote work, and the option to work abroad for up to 30 days annually.

Smartly is committed to being a great place for growth-minded individuals to thrive. Explore more in our Culture Handbook!

Apply Now and Build Your Future with Smartly!

Curious what it’s like to work at Smartly? Visit our Careers page to see how we grow, collaborate, and make impact together.

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We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join Smartly and lead one of our teams within our 250+ person Product & Engineering organization.

In this role, you’ll lead a team building the next generation of AI-driven workflows on top of our core product. From creative manipulation and editing to intelligent automation that helps our customers produce high-performing content at scale. This is not just about shipping features, but about crafting experiences and workflows our customers will genuinely love and rely on.

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be responsible for guiding your team to deliver meaningful, high-quality outcomes with clarity and purpose. You’ll invest deeply in your people through coaching, regular 1:1s, and thoughtful development planning, while proactively removing obstacles and creating an environment where engineers can do their best work.

This is a unique opportunity to shape a cornerstone product at the intersection of AI, creativity, and performance marketing. You get to lead a talented team solving problems that directly impact customers worldwide.

Tech Stack: NodeJS, TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka

Read more about the our developer ways of working: Engineering at Smartly

 What you’ll do:

• Build and lead an autonomous Fullstack development team. Lead by example.
• Facilitate the team at team level. Enable them.
• Care about your team members' growth and development. Go far together.
• Tackle ambitious technical problems and add your mark to our Engineering culture. Help us grow.

What we’re looking for:

• You are an experienced people leader with proven ability in building and leading high-performing teams
• You have experience throughout the full software life-cycle in an environment with multiple teams
• You have built and maintained large-scale, high-availability web applications with an active and growing user base
• You have experience in various agile development practices as well as the pragmatism to know which tradeoffs are acceptable and a sharp focus on delivery.
• Ability to deliver constructive feedback that leads to meaningful changes and growth.
• Empathy and user-focused mentality: you care deeply about the product experience, you understand users’ motivations and frustrations, and you genuinely want to help them
• You are a skilled developer. You will need to be also hands-on when coaching the team members to new technical and professional heights, which can involve code reviews, pair programming, etc
• You are able to work on-site at our Mexico city office 3 days / week

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

What to Expect from Our Recruitment Experience:

• Meet your Recruiter: Get to know each other and learn about working at Smartly.
• Meet the Hiring Manager: Gain deeper insights into the role.
• Technical Interview: Engage in an interactive discussion around Systems Design and Architecture.
• Leadership Skills: Final discussion will be focusing on your experience as a manager.

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the AI Platform Team at Smartly! Our team works on helping marketers make the most of their ad creatives (images, video, text) and campaigns (product and performance data). We build and experiment with AI-based solutions across the media and creative workflows.You will have the opportunity to take ownership of and work on high impact projects.

Join us in building high impact ML-based solutions to help our customers to build better and more effective advertising experiences for their consumers. If you’re a growth minded individual who has a passion for ML and the marketing space, this team is for you!

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll:

• Build ML-based software systems that enable our users to craft great advertising experiences and campaigns 
• Work with a large span of datasets from image to video to audio to text to structured performance data.
• Contribute to and strengthen Smartly’s MLOps + data platform. You’ll work alongside our stellar senior machine learning engineers, data scientists, and software engineers to enable us to productionize AI/ML applications more robustly and efficiently.
• Be a core contributor of our team and our ways of working to build high impact products. You’ll actively be involved in work planning, retrospectives, and overall team improvement.
• Impact the daily life of the staff of the hundreds of advertisers using Smartly 
• Work with our stakeholders - be them product, engineering, infrastructure - to ensure we meet customers where they are. As with most ML-related roles, being able to translate business/product needs to viable solutions is a must.
• Apply and enhance your soft skills through working closely with your colleagues and our customers. Doing knowledge shares, running productive meetings, and pair programming/debugging are just some ways we grow our soft skills.
• Keep up to date with the latest ML innovations, especially in areas such as generative AI, computer vision, natural language processing and explainability.

What we are looking for:

• 5+ years of experience developing and deploying production-quality software
• 2+ years of experience delivering software services powered by machine learning
• 2+ years of experience working with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP
• Fluent in Python; experience with C++ or Java is a plus
• Hands-on experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Knowledge of MLOps concepts and tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow)
• Experience in feature engineering, model evaluation, diagnostics, and monitoring
• Strong foundation in linear algebra, statistics, and calculus
• Experience building scalable data pipelines for ML-based data processing
• Experience developing and maintaining services under SLA
• Analytical mindset with a problem-solving approach
• Passion for solving customer challenges quickly while making thoughtful architectural decisions
• Adaptability and resilience when facing new or ambiguous challenges
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• M.Sc. in a relevant field is preferred
• Ability and willingness to work in a hybrid capacity from our office 3 days a week

What We Offer You:

• Inclusive Culture: Join a team of over 750 Smartlies representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries, we foster a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback.
• Global Impact: Be part of a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers and business growth.
• Wellbeing Focus: Enjoy generous healthcare packages, mental health services, and a healthy work-life balance with paid holidays and family leave.
• Total Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and ample career development opportunities.
• Hybrid Workplace: We work in a hybrid model, balancing office and remote work, with the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

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We are looking for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join the AI Platform Team at Smartly! Our team works on helping marketers make the most of their ad creatives (images, video, text) and campaigns (product and performance data). We build and experiment with AI-based solutions across the media and creative workflows.You will have the opportunity to take ownership of and work on high impact projects.

Join us in building high impact ML-based solutions to help our customers to build better and more effective advertising experiences for their consumers. If you’re a growth minded individual who has a passion for ML and the marketing space, this team is for you!

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll:

• Build ML-based software systems that enable our users to craft great advertising experiences and campaigns 
• Drive the longer term technical architecture evolution of your domain.  
• Be a role model for technical excellence in your field inside Smartly
• Coach, mentor and train our ML Engineering talent.
• Work with a large span of datasets from image to video to audio to text to structured performance data.
• Contribute to and strengthen Smartly’s MLOps + data platform. You’ll work alongside our stellar senior machine learning engineers, data scientists, and software engineers to enable us to productionize AI/ML applications more robustly and efficiently.
• Impact the daily life of the staff of the hundreds of advertisers using Smartly 
• Work with our stakeholders - be them product, engineering, infrastructure - to ensure we meet customers where they are. As with most ML-related roles, being able to translate business/product needs to viable solutions is a must.
• Apply and enhance your soft skills through working closely with your colleagues and our customers. Doing knowledge shares, running productive meetings, and pair programming/debugging are just some ways we grow our soft skills.
• Keep up to date with the latest ML innovations, especially in areas such as generative AI, computer vision, natural language processing and explainability.

What we are looking for:

• 8+ years of experience developing and deploying production-quality software
• 5+ years of experience delivering software services powered by machine learning
• 4+ years of experience working with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP
• Fluent in Python; experience with C++ or Java is a plus
• Demonstrated experience managing the technical direction of a software system
• Experience in coaching and mentoring senior engineers
• Hands-on experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Knowledge of MLOps concepts and tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow)
• Experience in feature engineering, model evaluation, diagnostics, and monitoring
• Strong foundation in linear algebra, statistics, and calculus
• Experience building scalable data pipelines for ML-based data processing
• Experience developing and maintaining services under SLA
• Analytical mindset with a problem-solving approach
• Passion for solving customer challenges quickly while making thoughtful architectural decisions
• Adaptability and resilience when facing new or ambiguous challenges
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• M.Sc. in a relevant field is preferred
• Ability and willingness to work in a hybrid capacity from our office 3 days a week

What We Offer You:

• Inclusive Culture: Join a team of over 750 Smartlies representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries, we foster a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback.
• Global Impact: Be part of a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers and business growth.
• Wellbeing Focus: Enjoy generous healthcare packages, mental health services, and a healthy work-life balance with paid holidays and family leave.
• Total Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and ample career development opportunities.
• Hybrid Workplace: We work in a hybrid model, balancing office and remote work, with the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

#LI-JF2 #LI-Hybrid 

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the AI Platform Team at Smartly! Our team works on helping marketers make the most of their ad creatives (images, video, text) and campaigns (product and performance data). We build and experiment with AI-based solutions across the media and creative workflows.You will have the opportunity to take ownership of and work on high impact projects.

Join us in building high impact ML-based solutions to help our customers to build better and more effective advertising experiences for their consumers. If you’re a growth minded individual who has a passion for ML and the marketing space, this team is for you!

We use Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Node.js, Docker and Kubernetes for our microservices, TypeScript and React in the frontend of our products.

Here's What You'll Do...

• Design, build and maintain backend services that sit at the core of Smartly.io’s campaign optimization products.
• Be a core contributor of our team and our ways of working to build high impact products. You’ll actively be involved in work planning, retrospectives, and overall team improvement.
• Support data scientists in bringing machine learning models to production.
• Mentor your team on software development practices and propagate best practices like testing, monitoring, or clean code.
• Use your skills and experience to continuously improve our software architecture, coding practices, tools, and processes.
• Work with our stakeholders - be them product, engineering, infrastructure - to ensure we meet customers where they are. Being able to translate business/product needs to viable solutions is a must.
• Apply and enhance your soft skills through working closely with your colleagues and our customers. Doing knowledge shares, running productive meetings, and pair programming/debugging are just some ways we grow our soft skills.
• Impact the daily life of the staff of the hundreds of advertisers using Smartly

Here's What We're Looking For...

• We’re seeking an experienced Software Engineer with Strong Python skills
• 5+ years of experience developing and deploying production-quality software
• 2+ years of experience working with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP
• Experience with NodeJS, React, TypeScript is a plus
• Hands-on experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) is a plus
• Knowledge of MLOps concepts and tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow) is a plus
• Experience developing and maintaining services under SLA
• Analytical mindset with a problem-solving approach
• Passion for solving customer challenges quickly while making thoughtful architectural decisions
• Adaptability and resilience when facing new or ambiguous challenges
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• Ability to work 3 days / week at our office
• M.Sc. in a relevant field is preferred

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the AI Platform Team at Smartly! Our team works on helping marketers make the most of their ad creatives (images, video, text) and campaigns (product and performance data). We build and experiment with AI-based solutions across the media and creative workflows.You will have the opportunity to take ownership of and work on high impact projects.

Join us in building high impact ML-based solutions to help our customers to build better and more effective advertising experiences for their consumers. If you’re a growth minded individual who has a passion for ML and the marketing space, this team is for you!

We use Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Node.js, Docker and Kubernetes for our microservices, TypeScript and React in the frontend of our products.

Here's What You'll Do...

• Design, build and maintain backend services that sit at the core of Smartly.io’s campaign optimization products.
• Be a core contributor of our team and our ways of working to build high impact products. You’ll actively be involved in work planning, retrospectives, and overall team improvement.
• Support data scientists in bringing machine learning models to production.
• Mentor your team on software development practices and propagate best practices like testing, monitoring, or clean code.
• Use your skills and experience to continuously improve our software architecture, coding practices, tools, and processes.
• Work with our stakeholders - be them product, engineering, infrastructure - to ensure we meet customers where they are. Being able to translate business/product needs to viable solutions is a must.
• Apply and enhance your soft skills through working closely with your colleagues and our customers. Doing knowledge shares, running productive meetings, and pair programming/debugging are just some ways we grow our soft skills.
• Impact the daily life of the staff of the hundreds of advertisers using Smartly

Here's What We're Looking For...

• We’re seeking an experienced Software Engineer with Strong Python skills
• 5+ years of experience developing and deploying production-quality software
• 2+ years of experience working with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP
• Experience with NodeJS, React, TypeScript is a plus
• Hands-on experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) is a plus
• Knowledge of MLOps concepts and tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow) is a plus
• Experience developing and maintaining services under SLA
• Analytical mindset with a problem-solving approach
• Passion for solving customer challenges quickly while making thoughtful architectural decisions
• Adaptability and resilience when facing new or ambiguous challenges
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• Ability to work 3 days / week at our office
• M.Sc. in a relevant field is preferred

We are looking for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join the AI PlatformTeam at Smartly! Our team works on helping marketers make the most of their ad creatives (images, video, text) and campaigns (product and performance data). We build and experiment with AI-based solutions across the media and creative workflows.You will have the opportunity to take ownership of and work on high impact projects.

Join us in building high impact ML-based solutions to help our customers to build better and more effective advertising experiences for their consumers. If you’re a growth minded individual who has a passion for ML and the marketing space, this team is for you!

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll:

• Build ML-based software systems that enable our users to craft great advertising experiences and campaigns 
• Drive the longer term technical architecture evolution of your domain.  
• Be a role model for technical excellence in your field inside Smartly
• Coach, mentor and train our ML Engineering talent.
• Work with a large span of datasets from image to video to audio to text to structured performance data.
• Contribute to and strengthen Smartly’s MLOps + data platform. You’ll work alongside our stellar senior machine learning engineers, data scientists, and software engineers to enable us to productionize AI/ML applications more robustly and efficiently.
• Impact the daily life of the staff of the hundreds of advertisers using Smartly 
• Work with our stakeholders - be them product, engineering, infrastructure - to ensure we meet customers where they are. As with most ML-related roles, being able to translate business/product needs to viable solutions is a must.
• Apply and enhance your soft skills through working closely with your colleagues and our customers. Doing knowledge shares, running productive meetings, and pair programming/debugging are just some ways we grow our soft skills.
• Keep up to date with the latest ML innovations, especially in areas such as generative AI, computer vision, natural language processing and explainability.

What we are looking for:

• 8+ years of experience developing and deploying production-quality software
• 5+ years of experience delivering software services powered by machine learning
• 4+ years of experience working with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP
• Fluent in Python; experience with C++ or Java is a plus
• Demonstrated experience managing the technical direction of a software system
• Experience in coaching and mentoring senior engineers
• Hands-on experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Knowledge of MLOps concepts and tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow)
• Experience in feature engineering, model evaluation, diagnostics, and monitoring
• Strong foundation in linear algebra, statistics, and calculus
• Experience building scalable data pipelines for ML-based data processing
• Experience developing and maintaining services under SLA
• Analytical mindset with a problem-solving approach
• Passion for solving customer challenges quickly while making thoughtful architectural decisions
• Adaptability and resilience when facing new or ambiguous challenges
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• M.Sc. in a relevant field is preferred
• Ability and willingness to work in a hybrid capacity from our office 3 days a week

What We Offer You:

• Inclusive Culture: Join a team of over 750 Smartlies representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries, we foster a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback.
• Global Impact: Be part of a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers and business growth.
• Wellbeing Focus: Enjoy generous healthcare packages, mental health services, and a healthy work-life balance with paid holidays and family leave.
• Total Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and ample career development opportunities.
• Hybrid Workplace: We work in a hybrid model, balancing office and remote work, with the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

#LI-JF2 #LI-Hybrid 

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the AI Platform Team at Smartly! Our team works on helping marketers make the most of their ad creatives (images, video, text) and campaigns (product and performance data). We build and experiment with AI-based solutions across the media and creative workflows.You will have the opportunity to take ownership of and work on high impact projects.

Join us in building high impact ML-based solutions to help our customers to build better and more effective advertising experiences for their consumers. If you’re a growth minded individual who has a passion for ML and the marketing space, this team is for you!

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll:

• Build ML-based software systems that enable our users to craft great advertising experiences and campaigns 
• Work with a large span of datasets from image to video to audio to text to structured performance data.
• Contribute to and strengthen Smartly’s MLOps + data platform. You’ll work alongside our stellar senior machine learning engineers, data scientists, and software engineers to enable us to productionize AI/ML applications more robustly and efficiently.
• Be a core contributor of our team and our ways of working to build high impact products. You’ll actively be involved in work planning, retrospectives, and overall team improvement.
• Impact the daily life of the staff of the hundreds of advertisers using Smartly 
• Work with our stakeholders - be them product, engineering, infrastructure - to ensure we meet customers where they are. As with most ML-related roles, being able to translate business/product needs to viable solutions is a must.
• Apply and enhance your soft skills through working closely with your colleagues and our customers. Doing knowledge shares, running productive meetings, and pair programming/debugging are just some ways we grow our soft skills.
• Keep up to date with the latest ML innovations, especially in areas such as generative AI, computer vision, natural language processing and explainability.

What we are looking for:

• 5+ years of experience developing and deploying production-quality software
• 2+ years of experience delivering software services powered by machine learning
• 2+ years of experience working with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP
• Fluent in Python; experience with C++ or Java is a plus
• Hands-on experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Knowledge of MLOps concepts and tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow)
• Experience in feature engineering, model evaluation, diagnostics, and monitoring
• Strong foundation in linear algebra, statistics, and calculus
• Experience building scalable data pipelines for ML-based data processing
• Experience developing and maintaining services under SLA
• Analytical mindset with a problem-solving approach
• Passion for solving customer challenges quickly while making thoughtful architectural decisions
• Adaptability and resilience when facing new or ambiguous challenges
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• M.Sc. in a relevant field is preferred
• Ability and willingness to work in a hybrid capacity from our office 3 days a week

What We Offer You:

• Inclusive Culture: Join a team of over 750 Smartlies representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries, we foster a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback.
• Global Impact: Be part of a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers and business growth.
• Wellbeing Focus: Enjoy generous healthcare packages, mental health services, and a healthy work-life balance with paid holidays and family leave.
• Total Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and ample career development opportunities.
• Hybrid Workplace: We work in a hybrid model, balancing office and remote work, with the option to work abroad for up to 30 days.

Smartly is committed to being the best place to work for growth-minded individuals to thrive - explore more in our Culture Handbook!

#LI-JF2 #LI-Hybrid