Senior SDE Lead in Test

What You'll Do:

CRITEO is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead our newly established Test Engineering team.

At Criteo, our engineering values promote reliability and quality. We build, break, and rebuild to make it better. Software development engineers in Test (SDETs) are expected to be proficient in both software development and testing, with a strong focus on automation and continuous improvement of testing processes. As SDET, you will navigate Criteo’s codebase, identify weak spots, and continually design innovative ways to break software and uncover issues.

You will work closely with product engineering to improve test coverage across our applications, systems, and pipelines, and identify areas most in need of optimization. You’ll tell stories with meaningful monitoring, organize disaster recovery scenario and ensure our platform remains the most reliable in AdTech.

You will have the opportunity to continuously learn new skills from team members and share your expertise. This role is ideal for an engineer who wants to be involved in large-scale system design, performance troubleshooting, code optimization, incident prevention, and who is passionate about testing.

You’ll have a huge impact on the quality of Criteo’s products and services. Additionally, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the productivity of our R&D organization while managing a growing number of clients, enabling us to scale our business effectively.

• Lead an engineering team with a primary focus of building a global test engineering culture and practice across Criteo’s R&D.

• Grow the skills and careers of engineers on your team

• Lead the utilization and/or development of automation tools or scripts to improve product and engineering health.

• Help product engineering team to ensure test plans cover all functional and non-functional requirements.

• Define test framework, test preconditions, and other test control to enable others to test functionality.

• Develop automation framework to test Criteo platform from a functional and scale perspective.

• Work closely with software developers to understand the architecture and design of the software.

• Provide input on design and development to improve the testability and quality of the code, including code reviews.

• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies in software testing and automation to continuously improve testing processes and methodologies.

• Participate in product design review with stakeholders to contribute to product design, testability, and implementation.

• Automate test cases that can be executed in a CI/CD environment from build to deployment.

• Drive test engineering best practices across R&D.

Who You Are:

• A demonstrated track record of taking initiative and acting as a leader

• BS in Software Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience.

• 7+ years of experience in coding, developing test methodologies, writing test plans, creating test cases, and debugging in an Object Oriented Programming language

• Strong understanding of Computer Science (data structures, algorithms, optimization)

• Strong commitment to quality designs, improving tools, frameworks, metrics, automated testing, and documentation

• A problem solver, a fixer, and a creative technologist. We believe coding is a talent and a passion, not just a skill.

• Enjoy thinking through complex product and system interactions to identify gaps, failure modes, and edge cases

• Possess a strong sense of ownership and a dislike for passing the buck

• A strong team player who can lead cross-functionally.

• Experience working with product stakeholders to understand and implement business requirements into technical solutions.

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:

Criteo is the global commerce media company that enables marketers and media owners to deliver richer consumer experiences and drive better commerce outcomes through its industry leading Commerce Media Platform.

At Criteo, our culture is as unique as it is diverse. From our offices around the world or from home, our incredible team of 3,600 Criteos collaborates to develop an open and inclusive environment. We seek to ensure that all of our workers are treated equally, and we do not tolerate discrimination based on race, gender identity, gender, sexual orientation, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, political opinion, pregnancy, migrant status, ethnicity, marital or family status, or other protected characteristics at all stages of the employment lifecycle including how we attract and recruit, through promotions, pay decisions, benefits, career progression and development. We aim to ensure employment decisions and actions are based solely on business-related considerations and not on protected characteristics. As outlined in our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, we strictly forbid any kind of discrimination, harassment, mistreatment or bullying towards colleagues, clients, suppliers, stakeholders, shareholders, or any visitors of Criteo. All of this supports us in our mission to power the world’s marketers with trusted and impactful advertising encouraging discovery, innovation and choice in an open internet.

Why Join Us:

At Criteo, we take pride in being a caring culture and are committed to providing our employees with valuable benefits that support their physical, emotional and financial wellbeing, their interests and the important life events. We aim to create a place where people can grow and learn from each other while having a meaningful impact. We want to set you up for success in your job, and an important part of that includes comprehensive perks & benefits. Benefits may vary depending on the country where you work and the nature of your employment with Criteo. When determining compensation, we carefully consider a wide range of job-related factors, including experience, knowledge, skills, education, and location. These factors can cause your compensation to vary.

For employees based in the US, certain roles at Criteo are eligible for additional rewards, including quarterly or annual bonus and restricted stock units. US-based employees receive access to healthcare, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, family forming and wellness benefits, Flexible Work financial support, learning opportunities, and a robust annual leave plan including volunteer time off and summer vacation days.

The US base salary pay range for this position per year is:

$147,520 - $202,840