Staff Engineer, Retail Media – AdTech Solutions

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical vision for the Retail Media platform

• Create scalable and maintainable architectural designs

• Oversee the development of Node.js/TypeScript microservices and distributed systems

• Design and construct high-performance backend services, APIs, and frontend applications

• Stay actively engaged in implementation and resolve technical challenges

• Architect and enhance data-intensive and asynchronous workflows for campaign management, ad serving, targeting, and reporting

• Spearhead complex engineering projects across various teams

• Foster architectural consistency, mentor engineers, and set technical standards

• Collaborate with Product, UX, Analytics, and Retail Media teams

• Convert business requirements into effective, scalable AdTech solutions

⛳️ Requirements

• Significant software engineering experience, including roles such as Staff, Principal, Tech Lead, or equivalent technical leadership position

• In-depth knowledge of backend engineering, distributed systems, and cloud-native architecture

• Practical experience with Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, and contemporary frontend frameworks

• Established history of designing and scaling intricate systems

• Experience in guiding architectural choices and leading technical projects across multiple engineering teams

• Background in AdTech, preferably with experience in Retail Media, sponsored advertising, ad serving, targeting, auctions, or attribution

• Capability to remain hands-on while guiding technical strategy, mentoring engineers, and improving engineering standards

• Experience working collaboratively in cross-functional product teams with Engineering, Product, and business stakeholders

• Familiarity with React, Next.js, Koa.js, NestJS, MongoDB, Redis, BullMQ, RabbitMQ, Algolia, Docker, Kubernetes (GKE), Google Cloud Platform, CircleCI, ArgoCD, and modern ad-serving platform integrations

🏝️ Benefits

• Urban Sports Club membership (M package)

• Anonymous and complimentary professional psychological support

• Flexible work-from-home options, including up to 20 days a year anywhere in the EU

• Fully funded Deutschland Ticket

• A variety of internal and external training opportunities

• Remote work based in Germany

• Occasional on-site collaboration at offices in Berlin or Cologne