About this role
About your tasks
- Architecture & Technical Strategy: Drive the technical direction of our Retail Media platform, designing scalable, maintainable architectures and leading the evolution of Node.js/TypeScript microservices and distributed systems.
- Hands-on Full-Stack Engineering: Design and build high-performance backend services, APIs, and frontend applications using Node.js, React, Next.js, and TypeScript, while remaining actively involved in implementation and technical problem-solving.
- Data & System Design: Architect and optimize data-intensive and asynchronous workflows using MongoDB, Redis, Algolia, BullMQ, and RabbitMQ to support campaign management, ad serving, targeting, and reporting.
- Cross-Team Technical Leadership: Lead complex engineering initiatives across teams, drive architectural alignment, mentor engineers, and establish technical standards that improve engineering quality and long-term platform scalability.
- Product & Business Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, UX, Analytics, and Retail Media stakeholders to shape technical priorities, challenge assumptions, and translate business needs into impactful AdTech solutions.
About you
- You bring extensive software engineering experience, including experience operating as a Staff, Principal, Tech Lead, or similar technical leadership role.
- You have strong expertise in backend engineering, distributed systems, and cloud-native architecture, with hands-on experience in technologies such as Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, and modern frontend frameworks.
- You have a proven track record of designing and scaling complex systems, driving architectural decisions, and leading technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
- You bring experience in AdTech, ideally within Retail Media, sponsored advertising, ad serving, targeting, auctions, or attribution.
- You enjoy remaining hands-on while influencing technical direction, mentoring engineers, and raising engineering standards across teams.
- You thrive in cross-functional product environments, collaborating closely with Engineering, Product, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, high-impact solutions.
About your benefits
In order to provide our employees with the best possible support for their individual needs, we offer a wide range of benefits:
- Sports: Stay healthy. Profit from a membership (M) package at Urban Sports Club, so that you can take advantage of a huge variety of sport offers.
- Mental Health: Get quick and professional help from psychologists if you feel overwhelmed in private or professional life. Anonymous and free of charge.
- Work from Home: If your job does not require you to be present in the office, we can arrange the place you work from individually - even for up to 20 days a year anywhere in the EU.
- Mobility: We provide our employees with a fully costed Deutschland Ticket which can be used at any time.
- Personal development: Grow! We support and encourage your individual development through various in- and external trainings.
- And many more :)