{“@context”:”http://schema.org”,”@type”:”JobPosting”,”baseSalary”:null,”datePosted”:”2026-10-29″,”validThrough”:”2027-10-29″,”description”:”<div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">We are seeking a high-level <strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Engineering Lead</strong> to support a mission-critical messaging and delivery platform for a digital marketing and advertising technology organization. This is a full-time hybrid position based in either Fort Lee, New Jersey or New York City, requiring three days per week in the office. The ideal candidate combines deep backend engineering expertise with hands-on technical leadership, helping drive highly scalable systems that process and deliver large volumes of customer communications in real time. U.S. work authorization is required. No visa sponsorship is available at this time.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Job Title:&nbsp;</strong>Engineering Lead, Messaging and Delivery Systems&nbsp;</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Location:</strong> Hybrid (New York City, NY or Fort Lee, NJ)</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Compensation:</strong>&nbsp;$180,000 plus 20% bonus&nbsp;</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Responsibilities:</strong></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Lead the architecture, development, and operation of large-scale messaging and delivery systems responsible for high-volume customer communications and real-time decisioning workflows</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Serve as a hands-on technical leader, partnering closely with senior engineers to solve complex infrastructure, performance, scalability, and reliability challenges</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Own production operations, incident response, root cause analysis, and system resiliency initiatives across messaging, event processing, and platform infrastructure</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Collaborate with product, operations, analytics, and leadership teams to translate business requirements into scalable engineering solutions</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Drive improvements to cloud infrastructure, system performance, platform reliability, and operational efficiency while maintaining cost-conscious engineering practices</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Establish technical standards, review architecture and code, and provide mentorship and guidance to a team of experienced engineers</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Build and enhance monitoring, alerting, deployment safeguards, and testing strategies to support a highly available production environment</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Lead strategic platform initiatives involving distributed systems, event-driven architecture, messaging infrastructure, and data-driven decisioning capabilities</li></ul><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Required Skills &amp; Experience:</strong></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">8+ years of experience building and supporting high-throughput backend systems, distributed applications, or cloud-native platforms in production environments</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">2+ years of experience in a technical leadership capacity such as Engineering Lead, Technical Lead, Lead Software Engineer, or hands-on Engineering Manager</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Strong experience with AWS cloud services, including serverless and containerized workloads, with the ability to optimize systems for performance, scalability, and cost</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Experience working with event-driven architectures, messaging technologies, streaming platforms, and large-scale data processing environments</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Hands-on expertise supporting both application development and underlying infrastructure, including Linux systems, networking concepts, and cloud operations</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Demonstrated success responding to production incidents, troubleshooting complex distributed systems, and driving continuous platform improvements</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, analytics, and executive stakeholders</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Experience with technologies such as AWS, Kafka, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Snowflake, Python, Java, TypeScript, or similar modern platform technologies is highly desirable</li></ul><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Additional Information:</strong></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;"><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">Hybrid work schedule requiring three days per week onsite in either New York City, the Flatiron District, or Fort Lee, New Jersey</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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