Senior ELM – Developer Productivity in Toronto

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. We process more than 550 billion real-time auctions every day with ultra-low latency. Our platform is vertically integrated from servers to networks and runs primarily on our own metal and cloud infrastructure.

We’re looking for a Senior ELM - Developer Productivity to bring innovation and human-centered thinking to how Index Exchange builds and ships software. This position reports directly to Brooke Trevino based in Toronto and will work closely with members of the Quality & Delivery team.

Here’s What You’ll Be Doing:

• Functional & Delivery Leadership: Own architecture and delivery of Developer Experience and Release Engineering, elevating both from foundational capability to a demonstrably mature, industry-leading practice.
• Architect deterministic and agent-evaluated gates across the Define, Build, Verify, Release, and Operate states of the software delivery lifecycle.
• Partner with peer engineering leaders across Quality & Delivery to jointly architect and sequence the gated SDLC roadmap.
• Assess current-state Developer Experience and release practices, tooling, and workflows to identify friction, gaps, and opportunities.

Operational Excellence: Foster continuous, iterative collaboration within the Engineering organization to make Developer Experience and Release Engineering first class components of the culture and processes.

People Leadership & Global Collaboration: Drive adoption of new standards or tooling across teams. Communicate findings, recommendations, plans, and progress clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Here’s What You Need:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of experience in commercial software development environments.
• 5+ years of engineering management experience leading delivery-focused teams.
• Applied, hands-on experience architecting policy-as-code enforcement and SLO-driven progressive delivery.
• Strong analytical and synthesis skills, with the ability to translate ambiguous inputs into clear problem statements and actionable plans.

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

• 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.

Equal employment opportunity: At Index Exchange, we believe that successful products are built by teams just as diverse as the audience who uses them. 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.

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