Staff Engineer, Retail Media AdTech Solutions (mfd)

About your tasks:

• Architecture & Technical Strategy: Drive the technical direction of our Retail Media platform designing scalable maintainable architectures and leading the evolution of microservices and distributed systems.

• Hands-on Full-Stack Engineering: Design and build high-performance backend services APIs and frontend applications using React 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.

Qualifications :

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 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.

Additional Information :

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 :)

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time