Director of Engineering

Simulmedia is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead our senior full stack engineering team in Ukraine. You’ll report to our Ukraine-based VP of Engineering and play a critical role in building the foundation of our next-generation self-serve TV ad buying platform.
This is a hands-on leadership role focused on delivering scalable, user-facing features while collaborating with cross-functional leaders in Data, DevOps, and Science, including future-facing work on LLMs and agentic workflows. You'll bring broad technical depth, full stack expertise, and a passion for creating seamless, intuitive experiences in a product-led growth environment.
This position is located in Kyiv or Lviv, Ukraine. Our team is remote-first, with occasional team meetings in our office and full flexibility to work from either city.
What You’ll Do●      Lead and mentor a team of full stack engineers building a modern web-based ad buying platform.●      Set technical direction across frontend, backend, and API design, ensuring high quality and performance.●      Stay hands-on in the codebase where necessary to unblock the team, spike new approaches, or review critical paths●      Collaborate with Product, Design, Data Engineering, DevOps, and Science teams to deliver impactful features.●      Contribute to architectural decisions that balance scalability, velocity, and maintainability.●      Support integration of real-time data, machine learning models, and agentic capabilities into the product.●      Help grow the team through recruiting, onboarding, and professional development.●      Participate in the on-call rotation to help ensure system availability and quick incident resolution.●      Foster a high-trust, performance-driven engineering culture.
What We’re Looking For●      8+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years in technical leadership.●      Deep hands-on expertise in full stack development — React/Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js.●      Strong architectural skills and experience building scalable customer-facing SaaS products.●      Comfortable being hands-on when needed — whether coding, debugging, or exploring solutions●      Experience working with cloud services (preferably AWS), CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code practices.●      Familiarity with data-intensive systems, model integrations, or LLM-driven workflows.●      Excellent communication and collaboration skills across global, cross-functional teams.●      Ability to work 11 am – 8 pm EEST to align with U.S.-based counterparts.


Bonus Points●      Experience in ad tech, martech, or performance-oriented SaaS platforms.●      Exposure to DevOps principles, observability tooling, or real-time analytics.We are excited to be building out the various perks and benefits for our Ukraine team. More will be discussed during the interview phase!