Tech Director - Mobile (f/m/d)

Tech Director - Mobile (f/m/d)

Job Description

adjoe is a leading mobile ad platform developing cutting-edge advertising and monetization solutions to meet the diverse needs of app publishers. Being part of the applike group ecosystem plus the significant financial backing from Bertelsmann empowers us to do this. At adjoe, we are proud of our advanced tech stack and dynamic and innovative workforce.

Meet Your Team: Rewarded Solutions - Mobile Integrations

The Mobile Integrations Team is part of our Rewarded Solutions Department which develops the technology behind adjoe's innovative rewarded engagement products that serve over 57 million daily mobile users.

Mobile Integrations is responsible for the native Android and iOS SDKs written in Java/Kotlin and Swift that handle much of the complex engagement flows. On top of the SDKs are widely customizable web applications built with React TypeScript; and a highly performant Golang backend hosted on AWS that processes millions of events hourly. Our system matches each game with its ideal users, delivering rewards optimized for satisfaction through data processed via AWS Athena, Kafka, Spark, S3, and MySQL.

For team members, this means having state-of-the-art resources to build engaging rewarded ad experiences that seamlessly integrate into the world’s top apps while delivering exceptional results for advertisers and monetizers in this industry-leading technology.

What You Will Do

• Lead & Scale: Take ownership of the Mobile Integrations team from day one, setting the benchmark for engineering excellence across our mobile SDKs before scaling your scope to lead up to 3 cross-functional mobile engineering teams, guiding line managers and tech leads along the way.
• Architect & Innovate: Drive the holistic mobile architecture, technological direction, and platform scalability, ensuring our SDKs remain robust, performant, and future-proof across millions of daily active devices.
• Partner Strategically: Collaborate closely with the VP of Engineering, Product leadership, and executive stakeholders to translate high-level business goals into a concrete, high-impact mobile platform roadmap.
• Foster Engineering Culture: Champion engineering best practices, sustainable code reviews, and architectural alignment across teams while collaborating with tech leads company-wide to push technical standards forward.
• Build & Mentor: Play a defining role in recruitment and organizational growth; mentoring senior engineers and managers, fostering a high-performance culture, and helping every engineer reach their full potential.

Who You Are

• An experienced engineering leader with 8+ years of professional experience in software development and technical management.
• Extensive experience as a Team Lead, Engineering Manager or Tech Director, ideally with a track record or strong readiness for managing large mobile engineering teams.
• Deep background in mobile ecosystems (iOS/Android, SDK development) with high architectural standards across scaling systems.
• Proven track record of mentoring tech leads and senior engineers, driving engineering strategy, and organizational scale.
• Someone who enjoys translating business requirements into pragmatic technical solutions and can also efficiently communicate technical solutions to business stakeholders.
• Able to balance developer experience, security, and performance when designing interfaces and systems.
• A strong communicator who can adapt their level of detail when talking to engineers, product, and business stakeholders.
• Fluent in English. What’s in It for You? At adjoe, you’re not here to just close JIRA tickets, you’re helping build the infrastructure behind one of the most impactful platforms in adtech. The systems you work on will reach hundreds of millions of users and power billions of decisions every day.
• Go Big. Own projects with impact on 770M users and push adtech boundaries.
• Move Fast. Ship solutions multiple times a day, learn from results, and keep momentum.
• Be Direct. Solve problems openly and collaborate across teams.
• Thrive Together. Grow with a diverse, global team of people from over 40 different countries that learn from each other.
• Have Fun. Celebrate wins, enjoy daily victories, and bring your energy.
• We welcome applications from people who will contribute to the diversity of our company.

We welcome applications from people who will contribute to the diversity of our company.