Clinch is the recognized leader in omnichannel ad serving, creative automation, and dynamic personalization, powered by our Agentic AI orchestration platform, Flight Control. Our technology helps advertisers, agencies, create and run advertising campaigns with many variations who are powered by data and smart decision engines, for display, video, CTV, Facebook, Youtube, Tiktok, and many other channels.
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Software Engineering Team Leader to join our R&D group..
What You’ll Do:
Technical & Product Leadership:
- Own the architecture and delivery of Clinch’s Social Layer, including platform integrations, creative workflows, publishing APIs, and performance measurement capabilities.
- Drive technical decision-making: influence the technology stack, define best practices, and ensure scalability, security, and maintainability.
- Partner with Product, Customer Success, and Business teams to translate social-domain needs into clear technical solutions and roadmaps.
- Lead discovery and solution design for new social capabilities, platform features, and ad formats.
Platform Integrations & Delivery
- Build and maintain distributed cloud services that support social creative production and publishing.
- Develop and evolve CI/CD pipelines, ensuring reliable and fast delivery to production.
- Own integrations with social platform APIs and their compliance requirements (rate limits, auth, policy constraints, versioning).
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and performance optimization for mission-critical services.
Team Leadership & Execution
- Manage and mentor a multidisciplinary engineering team (backend, frontend, QA).
- Set clear goals, ensure strong ownership culture, and run effective agile processes (planning, grooming, retros, delivery).
- Ensure predictable delivery while maintaining high engineering standards and technical excellence.
- Coach engineers on design, code quality, observability, and scalable implementation patterns.
- BSc/MSc in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering background.
- 5+ years of backend development experience, preferably with C#/.NET (or equivalent modern backend stack).
- 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams, including mentoring, execution ownership, and architectural leadership.
- Strong experience with cloud-based distributed systems and microservices.
- Knowledge of SQL databases (e.g., MySQL, MS-SQL) including performance optimization and schema design.
- Comfort working in CI/CD environments with high-ownership release practices.
- Strong communication skills and ability to partner cross-functionally.
Top Skills
What We Do
Clinch leads the industry in developing platforms that help brands and agencies advertise better. The company’s AI-driven Personalization/DCO technology delivers custom-tailored ad experiences across all channels, driving best-in-class performance and ROI, while its Omnichannel Campaign Management Platform, Flight Control, enables agencies to manage the entire campaign lifecycle, from strategy through activation and measurement on a single platform that makes agencies massively more productive, efficient, and profitable with automated workflows that save time and money.
Flight Control replaces all the point solutions that have become part of the planning, activation, optimization, and measurement of ad campaigns with a single, unified, media-agnostic, SaaS platform already integrated with your DSP and all other partners. Built with agencies for agencies, Flight Control eliminates complexity through campaign workflow automation and makes agencies more efficient and profitable.
Flight Control includes:
- Innovative Visual UI to enable transparent, end-to-end team collaboration
- Workflow automation to eliminate errors and delays
- Omnichannel Personalization/DCO to improve campaign performance
- Smart Ad Serving that learn from its results across every channel
- Powerful Consumer Engagement Intelligence that enriches first party data
