At Index Exchange, we’re reinventing how digital advertising works—at scale. As a global advertising supply‑side platform, we empower the world’s leading media owners and marketers to thrive in a programmatic, privacy‑first ecosystem. At the core of it all is our engineering‑first culture.

From moving petabytes of data and optimizing with AI to making real‑time infrastructure decisions, Indexers have the agency and influence to shape the future of advertising. Define the roadmap for performance profiling, tooling, optimization, and latency reduction across the entire exchange platform. Exceptional hands‑on technology leader to ‘drive and own’ the performance optimization, vision, direction, and technology roadmap for system performance and optimization.

Design, develop, and drive implementation of all performance‑ and latency‑critical services and pipelines in our exchange; performance profiling and optimization tooling and frameworks, and integrate the same into our build and validation pipelines. Establish and advance best practices and standards for performance and latency critical pipelines, and ensure that all Index engineering teams subscribe to the same. Manage all requirements related to performance and latency metrics and observability.

Develop and champion the near‑term targets against long‑term strategy for continuous performance and latency improvements for our exchange. Make significant contributions while working cross‑functionally across engineering on the strategic technology roadmap for the company. A Builder And Amplifier Of World Class Engineering Teams Lead architecture and design with a particular focus on pervasive performance and latency optimization, profiling, and observability.

Collaborate to build and evolve technology planning, design, and architectural process for all of Index, driving collaborative engagement and enabling innovation from the entire organization. Organize and drive integrated release planning and coordination and design across platform, software, analytics, and infrastructure teams. Drive alignment across all agile engineering teams, with a robust focus on best‑in‑class architectural and technology standards and engineering best practices.

Design and build quality, performance, security, efficiency, and reliability from day one, and inspire other team members to do the same.



Represent our performance capabilities and strategies to diverse internal teams, as well as to external partners and customers. Act as a respected technical role model and mentor for engineering teams, leading, motivating, and challenging a diverse globally distributed technology team.

Growth Focused Architectural Leadership

Champion quality and data‑driven decisions, development, and delivery. Offer pragmatic technology leadership, balancing long‑term R&D; investments with near‑term execution and business impact. A technologist’s technologist — able to lead high‑performance technology teams by example.

Ability to manage, build and complement high‑performance teams with a natural ability to level‑up high‑performing engineers. A strong leader who can lead, manage, and inspire teams both locally and remotely. An aggressive problem‑solver who can provide creative solutions to complex situations and obtain buy‑in from those affected.

Inspirational and results‑oriented leader, capable of earning the trust and respect of high‑performing engineering teams. Hiring the right people, helping people grow both technically and personally, creating a stronger sense of ownership at the individual and team level.

Experience with Agile environments of all flavours, understand practices associated with different methodologies and when to use them. Make an impact on Engineering and IX as a whole. Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent. ~10+ years of experience in large scale commercial software development environments. ~ Significant technology leadership experience with high‑volume low‑latency distributed platforms and large scale performance and latency optimized pipelines and platforms. ~ Skilled in performance profiling and optimization, and how to drive the technology roadmap concurrent with the feature roadmap. ~ Demonstrated history as an advocate and coach for robust architectural patterns and frameworks, test‑driven development, and frequent delivery. ~ Expert in large‑scale system profiling, concurrency,



and memory management, and designing and building distributed systems. ~ Expert in establishing pragmatic performance metrics, observability, and targets for large‑scale systems (industry scale platform experience preferred). ~ Demonstrated history of developing architectural designs and standards, platforms, and frameworks that are effectively leveraged by many development teams. ~ Experience with large scale distributed stores and streaming pipelines (AeroSpike, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Hadoop, Parquet, Elasticsearch, Vertica, etc) in large‑scale high‑throughput environments. ~ Skilled at profiling and optimizing high‑volume transaction flows using advanced analytics and machine learning. ~ Ability to leverage continuous integration and robust build/test automation, with a preference for cross‑platform stacks and containerization (Git, Sonar, Kubernetes, etc.). ~ Demonstrated ability to provide leadership to globally distributed high‑performance teams, driving greenfield development in fast moving industries.

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents. Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules. Competitive retirement matching plans.

Equity packages. Generous parental leave available to birthing, non‑birthing, and adoptive parents. Employee assistance program. One day of volunteer time off per year and a donation‑matching program. Monthly town halls and regular community‑led team events.

Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning. We celebrate diversity of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. Additionally, we realize that diversity is deeper than any status or classification—diversity is the human experience.

Accessibility For Applicants With Disabilities Index Exchange welcomes and encourages individuals with disabilities to apply to work with us.

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Everywhere, Index Anywhere Our corporate headquarters are in Toronto, with major offices in New York, Montreal, Kitchener, London, San Francisco, and many other global cities.

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📌 Director Of Engineering, Exchange Platform (Toronto)
🏢 Index Exchange
📍 Toronto