Software Engineering Team Lead

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Barcelona, Cataluña
Mid level
Marketing Tech
The Role
Lead and manage a team of engineers to develop scalable solutions and champion agile practices. Mentor staff, write secure and efficient code in Python, and collaborate across departments to achieve technical excellence and foster team growth.
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What You'll Do:

The Global Automation team develops and runs a wide range of first-class solutions that empower Criteo’s commercial and operations teams to maximise their business impact.  

We build scalable, reliable, and interoperable systems, that constantly need to adapt to business priorities and evolutions. And we build the applications, APIs and UIs to supply first-class service to our users.  

Our team empower internal teams by crafting solutions, APIs, ETL pipelines and frameworks that are meant to provide commercial stakeholders with secure and fast access to Criteo data and the related insights necessary to manage their portfolios effectively.  

You will be leading a team of engineers in a multicultural and diverse environment alongside highly motivated colleagues and a talented team of highly skilled engineers on products that make a real business impact. 


As a Team Lead, you will lead a cross-functional agile team of engineers responsible for developing some of our most critical solutions in Global Automation. 

You will be an agile coach for the team, driving all aspects of software development, helping with blockers, identifying risks, and updating progress to leadership.  

You will be a champion of technical excellence, a key mentor to your development team and a strong contributor in driving development best practices and standards splitting your time between line management duties and software development. 

Balancing both line management responsibilities and hands-on software development, you embody a servant leadership approach. Your success lies in your ability to coach and mentor effectively, ensuring the continuous growth and contribution of each team member. By fostering an environment of ongoing improvement, you empower the team to confidently own their technical solutions from inception to production. 
 

 

Key responsibilities 

  • Lead and manage a group of engineers 

  • Implement and champion agile practices 

  • Actively participate in hiring. 

  • Support and mentor engineers through regular 1:1s. 

  • Foster the career growth of direct reports 

  • Collaborate with leadership, product managers, UX designers, and internal stakeholders. 

  • Provide architectural oversight and technical leadership. 

  • Write reusable, testable, secure, and efficient code in Python. 

 

Who You Are:

  • Have Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Software Engineering or related field. 

  • Have a passion in leading and managing Agile teams. 

  • Maintain an enthusiasm for software development, best practices, and clean code. 

  • Strong experience delivering scalable quality software products in Python. 

  • Critical thinker with problem-solving skills. 

  • Ability to interact with both technical and non-technical audiences. 

  

Bonus 

  • Good understanding of security best practices. 

  • Having some hands-on experience with data science or machine learning. 

  • Knowledge in alerting stacks such as Prometheus or others. 

  • Experience with ETL pipelines. 

  • Experience programming in other languages (PHP, Ruby or C#). 

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.

Top Skills

C#
PHP
Python
Ruby
The Company
Boston, MA
2,868 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2005

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.

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