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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 - D...
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.
of working.
models, semantic foundations, and core reporting assets.
observability, alerting, reliability, and scalable platform operations.
capabilities, and enabling teams across Product, Commercial, and other functions.
platform improvements and better data products.
high-quality work looks like in practice.
ownership and response protocols for issues.
and live reporting.
and real-time or near-real-time data flows.
priorities.
frameworks, semantic layers, and observability tooling is a strong plus.
countries, we foster a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback.
and family leave.
opportunities.
days.
Smartly is committed to being a great place for growth-minded individuals to thrive. Explore more in our Culture Handbook!
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.
Visit Smartly to learn more.
The processing of your information is described in our Candidate Privacy Notice.
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 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 ABOUT SMARTLY 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. Visit Smartly to learn more. The processing of your information is described in our Candidate Privacy Notice.
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 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: Experience the flexibility of 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! #LI-hybrid #LI-JF2 ABOUT SMARTLY 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. Visit Smartly to learn more. The processing of your information is described in our Candidate Privacy Notice.
Meta Workspaces is a core product area at Smartly, helping advertisers manage, automate, and scale campaigns on Meta through Smartly. The team builds customer-facing experiences, automation capabilities, and integrations with the Meta Marketing API, enabling customers to access platform capabilities efficiently and operate at scale. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help design and evolve systems that power high-volume advertising workflows used by customers around the world. You will work across the full stack, own significant technical initiatives, and help shape the architecture of reliable, high-performance systems. You will collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver features that directly impact how customers manage and automate their advertising operations. WHAT YOU WILL DO * Design, build, and maintain backend services and full-stack product capabilities at the core of Smartly’s Meta Workspaces. * Build and maintain integrations with the Meta Marketing API, enabling customers to access new platform capabilities and manage advertising workflows through Smartly. * Develop and operate systems that process high volumes of advertising operations and data while maintaining strong reliability, performance, and scalability characteristics. * Own high-impact features from product discovery and API design through implementation, testing, rollout, and iteration. * Collaborate with product, design, infrastructure, data, and engineering teams to turn business needs into reliable technical solutions. * Improve the scalability, reliability, performance, and observability of services operating under real production load. * Design robust APIs, service boundaries, and integrations that support complex automation and workflow-driven products. * Explore practical ways to use AI-enabled tools to improve engineering workflows, developer productivity, and the quality of team delivery. * Mentor other engineers and help raise the bar for testing, monitoring, code quality, and operational excellence. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR * Strong experience building and shipping production software as a backend or full-stack engineer. * Professional experience with TypeScript and Node.js. * Practical experience with relational databases, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems. * Experience designing, operating, and scaling production services with demanding reliability, performance, and availability requirements. * Ability to make thoughtful technical decisions in ambiguous situations and balance quality, speed, and long-term maintainability. * Experience collaborating across functions and contributing to technical discussions that shape product and engineering outcomes. * Strong written and verbal communication skills in English. * Curiosity about emerging AI capabilities and willingness to explore opportunities to improve products, workflows, and developer productivity through AI. * Ability to work effectively in a hybrid setup, including three days per week in our Helsinki office. Relevant technologies for this team include TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, React, Playwright, Jotai, Kafka, BullMQ, Kubernetes, distributed tracing and observability tooling, and modern testing frameworks. We don’t expect experience with every technology listed, but we value engineers who enjoy learning new technologies and working across different parts of the stack. 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. 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 ABOUT SMARTLY 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. Visit Smartly to learn more. The processing of your information is described in our Candidate Privacy Notice.