Engineering Manager - Development (C# / .NET / High Availability)

Fluent is building the next-generation advertising network, Partner Monetize & Advertiser Acquisition. Our vision is to build an ML/AI-first network of advertisers and publishers to achieve a common objective — elevating relevancy in E-commerce for everyday shoppers.

As our Engineering Manager - Development, you will lead the software engineering teams responsible for Fluent's core platform, SDKs, and product applications. You will oversee our Core engineering team, SDK developers, and specialized engineers working on client integrations and internal tools.

This role requires balancing technical leadership with people management, ensuring your teams deliver high-quality, scalable software while maintaining engineering excellence and developer velocity.

This role is fully remote in the United States or Canada (Ontario), with occasional travel to NYC.

What You'll Do

• Lead multiple development teams: Core platform, SDK, and specialized engineers — hiring, mentoring, and performance management.
• Own technical strategy for platform architecture, API design, and SDK development.
• Drive engineering excellence: code quality, testing practices, CI/CD, and technical debt management.
• Partner with Product Management to translate roadmap priorities into technical execution plans.
• Coordinate client integrations: technical requirements, implementation support, and partner API development.
• Manage offshore development partnerships to extend team capacity and deliver on roadmap commitments.
• Ensure platform reliability: monitoring, incident response, and operational excellence.
• Build scalable backend services: APIs, integrations, and event-driven architectures.
• Foster engineering culture: knowledge sharing, technical growth, and cross-team collaboration.

Must-Haves

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years managing or leading engineering teams.
• Strong backend development experience: C#/.NET, APIs, microservices, or similar modern stack.
• Experience with SDK or platform development: building tools and APIs consumed by external developers or partners.
• Cloud infrastructure experience: AWS preferred, including deployment, scaling, and operational concerns.
• Proven people management skills: hiring, mentoring, performance management, and team development.
• Strong communication skills for partnering with Product, clients, and executive leadership.
• Experience with agile delivery and managing engineering roadmaps.

Nice-to-Haves

• Ad tech, marketing tech, or performance marketing platform experience.
• Experience managing offshore or distributed engineering teams.
• Kafka or event-driven architecture experience.
• Multi-tenant SaaS platform experience.
• Experience with partner/client-facing technical relationships.

About Us

Fluent, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLNT) is a commerce media solutions provider connecting top-tier brands with highly engaged consumers. Leveraging diverse ad inventory, robust first-party data, and proprietary machine learning, Fluent unlocks additional revenue streams for partners and empowers advertisers to acquire their most valuable customers at scale. Founded in 2010, Fluent uses its deep expertise in performance marketing to drive monetization and increase engagement at key touchpoints across the customer journey. For more insights visit:https://www.fluentco.com/

At Fluent, we like what we do, and we like who we do it with. Our team is a tight-knit crew of go-getters; we love to celebrate our successes! In addition, we offer a fully stocked kitchen, catered lunch, and our office manager keeps the calendar stocked with activity filled events. When we’re not eating, working out, or planning parties, Fluent folks can be found participating in networking events, and bonding across teams during quarterly outings to baseball games, fancy dinners, and a variety of activities. And we have all the practical benefits, too…

• Competitive compensation
• Ample career and professional growth opportunities
• New Headquarters with an open floor plan to drive collaboration
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Pre-tax savings plans and transit/parking programs
• 401K with competitive employer match
• Volunteer and philanthropic activities throughout the year
• Educational and social events
• The amazing opportunity to work for a high-flying performance marketing company!

Salary Range: $160,000 to $225,000 base, + competitive bonus. The base salary range represents the low and high end of the Fluent salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance.

Candidates may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors seeking personal information. Fluent recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with an @fluentco.com domain. Any outreach by Fluent via other sources (e.g. text, other domains etc) should be ignored.

Fluent participates in the E-Verify Program. As a participating employer, Fluent, LLC will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. Fluent, LLC follows all federal regulations including those set forth by The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC). The OSC enforces the anti-discrimination provision (§ 274B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. § 1324b.