The Experience Enablers Group within Platform R&D builds the foundational user platform used across all Criteo products. Our teams design and deliver scalable SaaS building blocks that enable consistent, reusable user-centric capabilities such as accounts, teams, communication, and activity tracking.
We focus on trust and collaboration with our internal clients (R&D). We create robust, scalable, and consistent platform services that power users interact with our ecosystem at scale.
As a Full-Stack Platform Engineering Lead, you will lead a team of 4 engineers responsible for integrating efficiently this platform into the biggest Criteo Product. Making the most out of the core user platform that underpins authentication, collaboration, communication, and user experience on a specific product. You will be the link between those who build the platform and those who use it, contributing to both.
The team works on end-to-end systems spanning backend services and modern web interfaces, ensuring scalability, consistency, and usability across the platform.
What You'll Do:
Technical Leadership
Define architecture strategy and long-term technical roadmap.
Collaborate with engineers, understand requirements, and propose solutions.
Drive adoption of standards and best practices across engineering teams.
Team Leadership
Manage and grow a team of 4 engineers.
Support career development, mentoring, and hiring.
Foster a strong engineering culture focused on trust, quality, and collaboration.
Core User Platform
Co-design and build systems for user accounts, self-registration, identity, and permissions.
Develop collaboration and team management capabilities.
Ensure consistency and reusability of platform services across different teams.
Full-Stack Engineering
Develop end-to-end features using Angular and C#.
Design scalable APIs and backend services powering user interactions.
Ensure high-quality UI/UX aligned with product and design teams.
Platform Quality & Engineering Culture
Maintain strong architectural consistency across systems.
Improve performance, scalability, and reliability of core platform components.
Contribute to CI/CD, testing strategies, and engineering best practices.
Mentor engineers and contribute to technical excellence across teams.
Tech Environment: .NET, C#, TypeScript, Angular
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
6+ years of experience building and scaling web applications.
Solid experience in backend development using C#, Java or Python, ideally complemented by a good command of modern front-end frameworks (Angular or equivalent).
Strong understanding of scalable system design and API architecture.
Focus on users, communication, and clean system design.
Ability to simplify complex problems into elegant, maintainable solutions.
Collaborative mindset and experience working in cross-functional teams.
Curiosity and drive to continuously improve engineering practices.
Leadership & Collaboration
Proven ability to lead and mentor engineers in a full-stack or platform team.
Experience collaborating closely with other software engineers' teams
Ability to define technical vision and drive adoption of standards across multiple teams.
Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across an organization.
We acknowledge that many candidates may not meet every single role requirement listed above. If your experience looks a little different from our requirements but you believe that you can still bring value to the role, we’d love to see your application!
Who We Are:We’re Criteo, the Commerce Intelligence Platform. Criteo helps businesses turn shopper signals into commerce outcomes while delivering more relevant experiences for shoppers. We use proprietary commerce intelligence and AI decisioning to drive relevance for shoppers and performance for businesses.
At Criteo, our culture is as unique as it is diverse. From our offices across the globe or from the comfort of home, our 3,600 Criteos collaborate together to build an open, impactful, and forward-thinking environment.
We foster a workplace where everyone is valued, and employment decisions are based solely on skills, qualifications, and business needs—never on non-job-related factors or legally protected characteristics.
🏢 Ways of working – Our hybrid model blends home with in-office experiences, making space for both.
📈 Grow with us – Learning, mentorship & career development programs.
💪 Your wellbeing matters – Health benefits, wellness perks & mental health support.
🤝 A team that cares – Diverse, inclusive, and globally connected.
💸 Fair pay & perks – Attractive salary, with performance-based rewards and family-friendly policies, plus the potential for equity depending on role and level.
Additional benefits may vary depending on the country where you work and the nature of your employment with Criteo.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience
- 6+ years building and scaling web applications
- Proficient backend development with C#, Java, or Python
- Proficient with modern front-end frameworks (Angular or equivalent)
- Experience with .NET and TypeScript
- Strong understanding of scalable system design and API architecture
- Proven ability to lead, mentor, and grow engineering teams
- Experience driving technical vision, standards adoption, and cross-team collaboration
- Experience contributing to CI/CD, testing strategies, and engineering best practices
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence technical decisions
What We Do
Criteo is a global technology company that powers the world’s marketers and media owners with trusted and impactful advertising through our world-leading Commerce Media Platform, a suite of products that activates the world’s largest set of commerce data to drive better commerce outcomes. We help thousands of brands, publishers, and retailers reach and monetize audiences and are committed to supporting a fair and open internet that enables discovery, innovation, and choice.
