Job Description
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our AdTech tribe in Berlin. You will act as a technical leader within our Demand Adtech Domain, driving the architectural vision of our next-generation AdTech products. This platform empowers restaurants and local shops to promote themselves and reach new customers at a massive scale.
You will play a pivotal role in a geographically distributed tribe of over 14 squads. While our squads move quickly with a "we build it, we run it" principle, your role is to ensure these solutions are cohesive, scalable, and future-proof. You will bridge the gap between business goals and technical execution, optimizing the customer experience across more than 10 million orders per day.
Your Mission:
1. Architectural Leadership: Drive cross-domain and cross-tribe architecture discussions. Challenge the status quo, identify bottlenecks in our microservices ecosystem, and design robust, high-availability solutions that scale with our 10M+ daily orders.
2. Strategic Vision: Craft a long-term vision for the AdTech platform’s evolution. Partner with Engineering and Product Management to define technical OKRs for the tribe and domain, balancing feature delivery with technical debt reduction.
3. Engineering Excellence: Set standards for code quality, testing, and observability. Lead by example in coding and system design, and mentor Senior Engineers to help them grow into the next generation of leaders.
4. Scalability & Performance: Design and optimize complex backend services. Ensure our systems can handle high throughput and low latency, integrating best practices for Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.
5. Collaboration: Act as a bridge between squads. Ensure that individual components built by different teams integrate seamlessly into the wider AdTech ecosystem to create a cohesive platform.
Qualifications
6. 12+ years of software development experience, with significant proven experience building and delivering distributed systems at scale.
7. Expert-level proficiency in backend languages. You don't just write code; you define how code should be written. Strong knowledge of microservices architecture, event-driven design, and cloud-native patterns. You can visualize the "big picture" and troubleshoot complex cross-service issues.
8. Deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and database design. Proficiency in working with and optimizing Relational and/or NoSQL databases for performance.
9. Expert knowledge of logging, monitoring, and alerting strategies (Grafana, Datadog, NewRelic, Prometheus) to maintain high system reliability.
10. Ability to lead and drive technical initiatives across multiple teams. You are comfortable presenting architecture reviews and influencing stakeholders without direct authority.
Nice to Have:
11. Experience with cloud cost optimization strategies.
12. Active involvement in the tech community (meet-ups, conferences, or open-source projects).
13. Experience in Adtech Products.