Sr. Engineering Manager - Ad Tech at Best Buy in Seattle, Washington

Job Description:

Best Buy is seeking innovative and technically curious Senior Engineering Manager – Ad Tech to join us as we make a huge impact on digital evolution! Best Buy is adding to our technical team that builds our in-house Digital Advertising engine. The group is greatly expanding both size and technical scope this year. This is the opportunity to take your engineering management experience and build several new teams and technical architecture from the ground up.

A career with Best Buy offers the opportunity to apply your talents and creative energy to deliver high performing solutions at one of the top 10 e-commerce sites in the world.

What will you do as a Senior Engineering Manager - Ad Tech:

• Participates in all phases of the project lifecycle – architecture, design, development, MVP, and Dev Ops.


• Lead the design and development of key technology initiatives


• Lead multiple agile teams of skilled developers/engineers


• Strong demonstrated ability to work directly with technical leads, engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders


• Demonstrate a creative and innovation-driven ability to articulate engineering design patterns related to scale, performance, security, and usability

• 8 or more years of progressive responsibilities in one or more of the following areas: software/web development, application delivery, design or architecture for web or service-oriented environments and a Bachelor’s degree; or 10+ years’ of the same experience without a Bachelor’s degree


• 2 or more years' experience leading development teams (technical leadership, work direction, coaching and mentoring)

• Experience building Digital Advertising systems or other high-velocity, time critical systems


• 4+ years' hands-on experience implementing and deploying modern web development solutions including Java, JavaScript, Scala, REST web services, HTTP, NoSQL databases (e.g. cockroachDB, Cassandra), GCP, AWS, JSON, Linux


• Knowledge of and working experience with open source software (Apache, Tomcat, Memcache, etc.) as well as networks, security, firewalls, load balancers, DNS, and other infrastructure components


• Agile development practical experience


• Test-driven development, refactoring, automated unit test, integration test, functional test, and continuous integration/deployment.


• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills