Lead Full Stack Android Engineer:

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Durham, NC, USA
In-Office
Senior level
AdTech
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The Role
Lead the architecture and delivery of full-stack features for campaign management, reporting, and marketplace optimization. Drive API design, backend scalability, low-latency optimizations, system reliability, and mentor engineers while partnering with product to define roadmap and standards.
Summary Generated by Built In

At Digital Turbine, we make mobile advertising experiences more meaningful and rewarding for users, app publishers, and advertisers — intelligently connecting people in more ways, across more devices. We provide app publishers and advertisers with powerful ads and experiences that captivate consumers, fuel performance, and help telecoms and OEMs supercharge awareness, acquisition, and monetization. In a rapidly evolving industry, we are constantly innovating and creating better paths of discovery to connect consumers, publishers, and advertisers across the mobile ecosystem.

Please note that Digital Turbine is a hybrid work environment-only candidates local to the posting location will be considered.

Digital Turbine runs on small, autonomous pods that own an outcome and a roadmap end to end. We hire engineers, not language specialists: we care that you can reason about systems, pick the right tool for the problem, and ship reliable software across the stack.

As a Lead Full Stack Android Engineer, you will drive the technical direction and architecture for the critical product surfaces that bring our marketplace together — campaign management and creation, unified dashboards and reporting, audience and asset tooling, and the APIs that connect demand to supply. You will provide technical leadership across front-end, back-end, and data engineering, steering the unified product architecture at the heart of our FY27 roadmap. The underlying platform requires heavy back-end engineering, low-latency optimization, and sophisticated algorithmic problem-solving to manage massive throughput and real-time marketplace dynamics

About the Lead Full Stack Android Engineer:

  • Architect & Execute: Lead the design, architecture, and execution of high-impact, full-stack features—from responsive web front-ends to scalable back-end services and APIs—that power campaign management, reporting, and marketplace optimization

  • Technical Strategy: Establish the technical direction across a polyglot stack, ensuring the front end remains lightweight by strategically pushing complex computational logic, data modeling, and heavy algorithmic weight into robust, highly scalable back-end services

  • System Integration: Drive the design and integration of robust, well-designed APIs that unify DT products into a cohesive ecosystem, breaking down potential silos 

  • Operational Excellence: Take end-to-end accountability for service reliability, defining standards for testing, observability, performance, and on-call rotation while fostering a culture of collective quality 

  • Strategic Collaboration: Partner directly with product leads and key stakeholders to shape the technical roadmap, translate business requirements into architecture, and lead scoping and estimation efforts within your pod 

  • Mentorship & Standards: Champion engineering excellence by mentoring team members, conducting rigorous code reviews, driving automation, and establishing pragmatic architectural best practices

About you as the Lead Full Stack Android Engineer:

  • Platform Leadership: 5+ years of experience architecting and shipping production platforms, with a heavy, proven focus on backend architecture, system design, and deep code optimization 

  • Advanced Problem Solving: Strong algorithmic fundamentals, data structures, and a proven track record of leading solutions for complex data-processing or resource optimization problems 

  • Polyglot Mindset: Demonstrated capability to be highly effective in more than one language/ecosystem (eg, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, Scala, or C++)—with a mindset that optimizes for the problem, not a single tool 

  • Full-Stack Mastery: Solid command of modern front-end frameworks (eg, React) and back-end service design, paired with deep experience utilizing relational and/or distributed data stores (MySQL, PostgreSQL, and similar) 

  • Engineering Fundamentals: Strong foundational expertise in API design, data modeling, testing methodology, and large-scale system design 

  • Autonomous Impact: Proven ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy, driving results and navigating ambiguity in a fast-paced, ownership-driven environment

Nice to have skills:

  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP), containers, and CI/CD pipelines

  • Exposure to the AdTech domain, dashboards/BI surfaces, or high-throughput, data-driven products 

  • Experience integrating ML or data services into live product workflows

About Digital Turbine:

Digital Turbine (NASDAQ: APPS) powers superior mobile consumer experiences and results for the world’s leading telcos, advertisers and publishers. Our end-to-end platform uniquely simplifies the ability to supercharge awareness, acquisition and monetization — connecting our partners to more consumers, in more ways, across more devices.

The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with global offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Berlin, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and other cities around the world, serving top agency, app developer, and advertising markets.

We are honored to have achieved numerous awards as an employer of choice, around the world, including: BuiltIn's Best Places to Work Awards in 2022, 2023 and 2024, DUNS 100 Best Places to Work in Tech for 2023 and 2024, and BDICode's 100 Best Companies to Work in 2024.

Digital Turbine is an equal opportunity employer committed to exemplifying diversity and inclusion around the world. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We embed diversity in our mindset, products, and teams to empower an inclusive, equitable, and culturally fluent environment. Building and continuously fostering this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators, partners, and innovators.

Digital Turbine will process the information you provide during the application process in accordance with the Digital Turbine Global Recruitment Privacy Notice.

Skills Required

  • 5+ years architecting and shipping production platforms with focus on backend architecture, system design, and code optimization
  • Strong algorithmic fundamentals and data structures with experience solving complex data-processing or resource optimization problems
  • Polyglot development experience (TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, Scala, or C++)
  • Full-stack experience including modern front-end frameworks (eg, React) and back-end service design
  • Experience with relational or distributed data stores (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or similar)
  • Expertise in API design, data modeling, testing methodology, and large-scale system design
  • Proven ability to operate autonomously, drive results, and navigate ambiguity in an ownership-driven environment
  • Must be local to the posting location and able to work in a hybrid environment
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP), containers, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Exposure to AdTech, dashboards/BI surfaces, or high-throughput data-driven products
  • Experience integrating ML or data services into live product workflows

Digital Turbine Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Digital Turbine and has not been reviewed or approved by Digital Turbine.

  • Healthcare Strength Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, and vision alongside life and travel insurance. Fully paid short-term disability is also presented as a meaningful safety-net benefit.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility Equity is framed as broadly accessible, with stock/equity included for employees at hire and additional grants tied to performance. This structure can materially increase total rewards for those who value ownership and participate over time.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time-off and flexibility offerings are presented as expansive, including unlimited vacation, flexible hours, and supportive leave policies. Paid parental leave is highlighted as part of a broader leave package.

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The Company
HQ: Austin, TX
950 Employees
Year Founded: 1998

What We Do

Digital Turbine (NASDAQ: APPS) powers superior mobile consumer experiences and results for the world's leading telcos, advertisers, and publishers. Our end-to-end platform uniquely simplifies our partners' ability to supercharge their awareness, acquisition, and monetization — connecting them with more consumers, in more ways, across more devices. Digital Turbine is headquartered in North America, with offices around the world. For more about Digital Turbine: www.digitalturbine.com

Why Work With Us

Everyone’s empowered to “Work their Way," while global mindsets & diverse perspectives are celebrated daily. We work hard, but also take time to enjoy the journey, and have fun while doing it. Our team is down to earth and supportive, which is needed in our fast-paced mobile ad technology space.

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