We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join Smartly in Mexico City and lead a full-stack engineering team within our 250+ person Product & Engineering organization. Your team will build the next generation of AI-driven workflows on top of our core product, from creative editing and manipulation to intelligent automation that helps customers produce high-performing content at scale.
You’ll combine people leadership with strong technical judgment, helping your team turn complex problems into intuitive experiences that customers can rely on. You’ll create clarity around priorities, coach engineers in their development, remove obstacles, and help the team deliver high-quality work while contributing to Smartly’s wider engineering culture.
Our technology stack includes Node.js, TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka. Learn more about Engineering at Smartly.
What You Will Do- Lead and develop an autonomous full-stack engineering team responsible for customer-facing AI and creative workflows.
- Coach engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, development planning, and hands-on technical guidance.
- Guide the team in delivering high-quality product outcomes, balancing customer needs, technical quality, and delivery priorities.
- Partner with Product and other engineering teams to define problems, make thoughtful trade-offs, and turn priorities into clear plans.
- Stay close to the technical work through architecture discussions, code reviews, pair programming, and other forms of hands-on coaching when useful.
- Remove obstacles, improve ways of working, and create an environment where engineers can take ownership and do their best work.
- Contribute to Smartly’s engineering culture by sharing practices, tackling challenging technical problems, and helping our organization continue to grow.
- Experience leading and developing software engineers, with a track record of building collaborative, effective teams.
- Strong software engineering experience across the development lifecycle and the technical depth to coach engineers and contribute to technical discussions.
- Experience building and operating large-scale, highly available web applications with an active user base.
- Experience working in a multi-team engineering organization and collaborating effectively across Product and Engineering.
- Sound judgment around software delivery and development practices, including the ability to make pragmatic trade-offs while maintaining quality.
- Strong coaching and communication skills, including the ability to give constructive feedback that supports meaningful growth.
- A user-focused approach to engineering: you seek to understand customers’ needs and frustrations and use that understanding to guide product and technical decisions.
- Ability to work from our Mexico City office at least one day per week.
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.
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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Smartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company transforming ad experiences for brands and their consumers. Our comprehensive advertising platform seamlessly integrates the capabilities of media, creative, and intelligence to power more than 800 billion impressions and generate more than 300 billion creatives annually, delivering tangible business outcomes for brands and advertisers.
Smartly is the only company in the industry recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Creative Advertising Technologies with PwC validating the results it delivers for brands. We manage creative and media for 700+ brands worldwide and $6B in ad spend across the largest media platforms, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. Our end-to-end technology, unmatched access to media platforms and exceptional customer service help Fortune 500 brands to reach and engage consumers and learn what performs best.Smartly is a multinational and diverse team of 750+ Smartlies from 60+ nationalities, working in 13 countries. Together, we want to create and maintain an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and heard. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion approach is at the heart of it.
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Skills Required
- Proven experience building and leading high-performing engineering teams
- Experience across the full software lifecycle in multi-team environments
- Built and maintained large-scale, high-availability web applications
- Experience with agile development practices and pragmatic prioritization for delivery
- Ability to deliver constructive feedback that drives growth and change
- Empathy and a user-focused mindset with strong product sensibility
- Skilled developer who is hands-on (code reviews, pair programming, technical coaching)
- Familiarity with NodeJS, TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka
What the Team is Saying
Smartly Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Five weeks of paid vacation, company holidays, wellness days, and localized 25–30 day annual leave are prominently highlighted. Short‑term work‑from‑anywhere allowances complement PTO by making time off and location flexibility easier to use.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are offered with immediate start in some markets, alongside global mental‑health support through Auntie. These benefits are positioned as part of a strong baseline that is localized by country.
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Flexible Benefits — Hybrid/remote setups and work‑from‑anywhere options (e.g., up to 60 days from another Smartly location or 30 days from a non‑Smartly location) expand where and how work gets done. Stipends for fully remote setups are also referenced in employer materials.
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What We Do
We solve for advertising campaign and creative complexities - both key elements to the time/money savings and performance that brands, agencies and businesses seek. Our unified platform combines media, creative, and intelligence, offering end-to-end workflows powered by AI across the open and closed web. With over 700 brands and advertisers, we've proven that dynamic and personalized creative makes advertising impactful. We are on a mission to transform the advertising experience for brands and their consumers. ⚡️
Why Work With Us
As a fast-paced growth company, we offer opportunities to maximize learning and amplify impact. Our culture and values have always been the secret sauce of our growth. They define how we aspire to build our adtech product, whom we hire and reward, and how we work towards a shared vision. Join us in moving advertising forward.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We are a hybrid workplace where Smartlies have the flexibility of hybrid work combining office and work from home. We also offer programs for short-term remote work globally.
