Tech Lead

Accepting applications until: 28 March 2025Job Description

At Global, we think big, work hard, and never stand still. We’re the proud home of the best media and entertainment, driven by our talented and passionate people. Our mission? To make everyone’s day brighter— our Globallers, our audiences, our partners, and our communities. Whether we’re in the studio, building world-class technology, or securing record Outdoor advertising partnerships, we make sure we’re doing it as a team.

Your Role: Tech Lead

The Programmatic team develop and maintain the products that drive the commercial revenues for direct and programmatic advertisement at Global for both Connected Audio and Out of Home. We have had great success in building scalable and efficient systems across our platform and we are looking to expand our footprint in the ad tech chain for both supply and demand. This role will be crucial to that success.

As a Tech Lead at Global, You will:

Key Responsibilities

• Cross-squad collaboration: Work across multiple feature teams to build an architecture that meets current and future business requirements.
• Setting standards: Setting development standards across the teams including performance, security and scalability considerations. Making sure they are consistently met.
• Help create a friendly work environment: Fostering a culture of collaboration, learning and mentoring to ensure a friendly work environment.
• Platform stability: Setting standards for production reliability, managing problems and ensuring incidents are resolved as soon as possible. Working with the teams to reduce issues and improve reliability over time.
• Stakeholder management: Working with stakeholders and product to set the roadmap across the teams including technical considerations and improvements.

What You’ll Love About This Role

Think Big: Working on an advertisement delivery platform that delivers a personalised experience to millions of people every day.

Own It: Be a part of a team that pride themselves on maintaining high availability services

Keep it Simple: Adhere to domain-driven design tailored for efficient ad delivery Better Together: We are a friendly and close-knit team, working in a highly collaborative agile environment

What Success Looks Like

In your first few months, you’ll have:

• Gained a deep understanding of the business context and how it affects all the deliverables of the teams.

• Set the standard for good development practice and ensure it is followed across all teams.
• Worked with the teams to develop an innovative architecture that meets future business requirements.
• Identify the key health metrics for the platform and build products to correctly track them and report them to users and stakeholders.
• Assist the data engineering team in building robust and scalable data processing pipelines.
• Ensured a reliable production environment, kept track of problems and worked with the teams to ensure a reduction in incidents over time.
• Partnered with product team members and stakeholders to set the roadmap across teams.
• Driven the culture of learning, knowledge sharing and mentoring across the teams.

What You’ll Need

• Systems thinking: Demonstrable experience at solving complex problems across the platform, taking into account performance, security, supportability and maintainability of distributed systems.
• Great communication: Demonstrably great communication skills, both written and verbal and the ability to influence and drive discussion and collaboration.
• Operational Mindset: demonstrable experience in relevant tooling and maintaining a production environment including debugging complex issues across a system.
• Quality Standards: High standards to get the solution right and ensure it stays right by having relevant development and quality assurance procedures in place.
• Coaching and Development: Nurturing talent by empowering and guiding individuals to unlock their potential
• Building Trust: Creating and maintaining an inclusive environment where diverse views and experiences are welcomed and celebrated in your team

Creating a place we all belong at Global

We are dedicated to creating a place where different voices are represented, amplified and celebrated. We know that we can’t serve our diverse audiences without first celebrating it in our people, which is why we’re passionate about creating an inclusive culture where every Globaller can belong. So, no matter who you are or where you are from, you can find your place at Global. 

As a business, we believe in the importance of a healthy work-life balance and the value of a flexible and agile workforce. Therefore, we operate a Smart Working approach. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments during your recruitment process, drop us an email at [email protected], we’ll be happy to help.