Principal Engineer

Teads is a global and premium Ad Tech platform at scale and has an engineering team that brings together 230+ talented individuals in 3 main locations (Montpellier, Paris, and Bucharest). We are organized in agile and autonomous feature teams and share technical knowledge within several communities of practice. To innovate, we promote diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

👉 Join a team of passionate people who build quality and responsible advertising, at scale!

What will you do?

As a Principal Engineer, your missions will be to:

• Guide, mentor and work alongside a team of talented engineers.
• Influence other Principals, Directors and their technical teams to build the right systems that can scale the needs of the business.
• Limit entropy and ensure the technical stack and choices are homogeneous within the Teads organisation.
• Partner with engineering teams to drive technical implementation.
• Evaluate and make changes around the use of new or existing technologies and tools.
• Prescribe and drive a part of our engineering strategy to support our growth.
• Contribute to the engineering culture.
• Drive transformative technical initiatives, meeting the increasingly complex requirements for our products.

What will you bring to the team?

Your skills and experiences:

• At least 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role driving major projects.
• Deep technical expertise in a software design domain & architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical stakeholders and to execute projects requiring collaboration across multiple teams.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a rapidly changing and dynamic environment.
• Experience with large scale distributed systems, architecture and system integrations.
• Experience in technical guidance managing high impact projects in engineering organizations.
• Strong drive, self-starter and entrepreneurial.
• Experience within cross-functional engineering projects.
• Systems thinking - seeing possibilities in complexity, creating frameworks to make decisions and structuring projects to pursue top goals.
• Ability to lead high level discussions as well as be an inspiring partner.

Our main Engineering challenges at Teads

• Working in a very high-traffic environment (1.9 billion users per month, 100 billion events per day) with low latency and high availability constraints (2 million requests per second, responses in less than 150 milliseconds).
• Rich and diverse tech stack and system architecture to optimize for performance, scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency. We use mostly Scala and TypeScript, among others.
• Management of large datasets with milliseconds order of magnitude access time, to compute in a near real-time complex auction resolution algorithm (18 million predictions per second).
• Build efficient and easy-to-use web products used by thousands of users working for the world's most premium publishers, advertisers, and agencies.
• A fast-changing environment where we continuously collaborate with Product teams and constantly adapt our Cloud infrastructure for new features and Products.
• Bring a wide diversity of profiles to the same level of quality and knowledge.

Why work at Teads?

At Teads, Product and Engineering work hand in hand and are aligned towards the same goal: to scale our business while continuing to create new and exciting products.

• We value team spirit, pragmatism, listening and we encourage initiatives.
• We promote end-to-end development: “You build it, you run it, you monitor it”.
• We share knowledge and support with each other beyond any organizational boundary.
• We fix issues during a blameless postmortem and learn from it so that it doesn’t happen twice.
• We are working together to create great engineering, but we are also supportive to promote a great work-life balance.

We promote diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment to enable all employees to feel valued and respected, which fosters creativity and innovation by allowing constructive collaboration and open exchange of ideas.

Our company offers a hybrid work model, allowing two days in-office and the flexibility to work from home for the rest of the week. Additionally, we offer relocation packages for those who are interested in moving to one of our engineering offices.

We care about you:

• Security & Savings: Attractive package providing financial peace of mind, including competitive compensation, profit-sharing, daily meal vouchers (Swile), family health insurance (Alan), and a personalized relocation package (if needed).
• Career Development: Continuous investment in our employees' skills: in-house and external training, tech conference opportunities, internal mobility (individual contributor or management career ladder).
• Life Balance: A well-balanced work-life for our employees is one of our top priorities: 35+ days off per year, hybrid work (2-3 days remote work per week, more is open to discussion), fully covered parental leave, and reserved daycare places.
• Wellness: Prioritizing employee well-being through premium work equipment, enjoyable work environment (work-life balance, team building events, summits), remote work subsidy, promoting Diversity & Inclusion with internal & external initiatives (women speaking groups, dedicated school partnerships), dedicated charitable time and sustainability actions (Eco Tree, subsidy for eco-mobility).

Discover more about our culture and benefits on our Engineering website.

What are our recruitment process steps?

We want to get to know you and we try to give you the insight you need to make an informed decision to join us. For that, you can find all the information in our Engineering hiring process article!

About Teads

Teads operates a leading, cloud-based, omnichannel platform that enables programmatic digital advertising across a global ecosystem of quality digital media. As an end-to-end solution, Teads’ modular platform allows partners to leverage buy-side, sell-side, creative, data and AI optimization technologies.
For advertisers and their agencies, Teads offers a single access point to buy the inventory of many of the world’s best publishers and content providers. Through exclusive global media partnerships, Teads enables advertisers and agencies to reach billions of unique monthly users in brand safe, responsible advertising environments, while improving the effectiveness and efficiency of digital ad transactions.
Teads partners with the leading marketers, agencies and publishers through a team of 1,200+ people in 50 offices across more than 30 countries.

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