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Assertive Yield B.V.

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

Assertive Yield B. V. is a company for which no descriptive text was provided in the prompt. No company details or public description were included, so specific activities, products, or services cannot be determined from the provided input. Based solely on the company name, "Assertive Yield" might suggest a focus on optimizing financial returns, yield management, or revenue optimization, but that is speculative and not confirmed.

📋 Description

• Define and execute the engineering strategy, ensuring alignment with product and business goals and enabling the team to deliver effectively at scale • Partner with the VP Technology and VP Product to translate roadmap priorities into executable engineering plans • Define and execute the technical strategy for our high-performance, low-latency backend services (Prebid Server, Yield Manager, data ingestion), ensuring scalability and reliability • Lead, coach, and grow developers, fostering a culture of accountability, growth, and high performance • Own org design across the team — headcount planning, team structure, hiring pipelines, and onboarding • Hold team members accountable for outcomes, addressing underperformance directly and effectively when needed • Design and continuously improve the systems, processes, and rituals that keep the team aligned, unblocked, and consistently delivering • Establish clear development KPIs and hold the team accountable for delivery, quality, and velocity metrics • Identify and remove systemic blockers across products and developers before they become bottlenecks • Establish clear ownership and decision-making frameworks to ensure alignment and reduce friction • Drive a culture of technical excellence — code quality, system reliability, scalable architecture, and sound engineering practices • Build and maintain relationships with key external partners, vendors, and the broader engineering community • Ensure adoption of modern Go best practices, focusing on performance, concurrency patterns, and microservices architecture • Oversee key infrastructure and migration efforts (e.g., Kubernetes, ClickHouse backups), collaborating with engineers to mitigate single points of failure and production risks.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience writing production-grade code in Go (Golang) • Demonstrated technical credibility in building and maintaining high-performance, low-latency distributed systems • 10+ years in software engineering, with 4+ years leading engineering managers or senior technical leaders • Technically credible and able to earn trust with senior engineers • Strong systems thinker — you design processes, team structures, and feedback loops that outlast you • Demonstrated ability to build and retain high-performing engineering teams across distributed or remote environments • Experience setting technical strategy for a core platform component, such as a high-volume ad server or data ingestion pipeline • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making structural decisions with incomplete information • Strong communicator who can bridge the gap between engineering depth and executive-level conversations • Background in adtech, martech, or data-intensive platform environments is a strong plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote, full-time, and flexible working hours • Opportunities to grow • A fun, smart, and diverse team • Competitive compensation package