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Backend Developer

  • Hybrid -
    • Limassol, Cyprus
    • Bucharest, Romania
  • Engineering
  • Permanent - Full Time

Backend Developer

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Job ID: r18203

What if, in your next adventure, you were surrounded by people who, like you, look for an unlimited playground to explore, share, and test, would you care to hear more? You've opened the right door! As an R&D team, making sure your ideas are heard and encouraged is what we strive to do!

What You'll Do:

As a Back-End Engineer at Criteo Commerce Grid, you'll create top-tier business products that help our clients maximize publisher revenue, enhance advertiser outcomes, and unlock the true value of their shopper data.

  • Design and Develop: Build, ship, and maintain real-time services handling 1 million bidding requests per second.
  • Prioritize: Balance product and customer priorities with operational and technical needs.
  • Ensure Quality: Deliver top-quality code through code reviews, unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests in a continuous integration environment.
  • Collaborate: Work closely with UI and Product teams to deliver services that our customers love.
  • Integrate: Perform technical integrations with large international online advertising platforms.
  • Enhance Inventory: Enrich advertising inventory with signals from diverse sources such as user interests, web page contextual information, and buying behaviors.
  • Innovate: Develop new advertising methods within a Google Privacy Sandbox environment.

Who You Are:

  • Educational Background: BS in Software Engineering or a related field.
  • Experience: 4+ years of programming experience, proficient in writing code and unit tests in an Object-Oriented Programming language.
  • Experience with any of these languages is a big plus: C++, Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, Lua
  • Technical Knowledge: Strong understanding of computer science concepts including data structures, algorithms, and optimization.
  • Product Focused: Dedicated to creating the best customer experience.
  • Quality commitment: Strong commitment to quality design, automated testing, and thorough documentation.
  • Passion for Coding: Enthusiastic about shipping high-performance, quality code.
  • Ownership: A strong sense of ownership with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
  • Creative Technologist: A problem solver, fixer, and innovative technologist who sees coding as a talent and passion, not just a skill.
  • Team Player: Excellent communicator and efficient collaborator who can work well with others.

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.

Perks & Benefits for all Criteos.

Happy people make healthy teams, so we value employee well-being above all else. Discover the perks & benefits we offer all our Criteos!

Flexible Work

We believe flexibility and trust are key to building work around your life, and not the other way around. So, you should be free to choose where you work best. Whether you prefer the office or the comfort of your own home, we committ to providing seamless working conditions for all.

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Learning & Career Development

As your skills multiply, opportunities do too. So, we care to help you nurture your potential, identify new goals, and define what you want out of your career. Discover how we have diversified our learning resources and training catalog for you to shape greater opportunities. You care for your career growth, and we do too.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

We care to build an open future for our community and beyond. Discover how our people fuel our Corporate Social Responsibility from the bottom up, embracing but also embodying and promoting values of diversity, equity, and inclusion through everything they do. Together, we strive to build a future that truly includes everyone.

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Great people shape greater opportunities.

At Criteo, we believe great people and reliable products are essential to build an open future for all.
Everything you need to know about our culture, vision, values, and how we live them with people, both in and out of Criteo, is in our Culture Book. Discover who we are, what we do, and how we act as a company and as Criteos!
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Meet our Criteos in Cyprus!

Whether you prefer the sandy beaches of a coastal city or the cultural dynamism of the capital, we have an office that will suit your needs in Cyprus! Either join our team in Nicosia, the capital of the island and enjoy its rich culture and historical heritage, or try our team in Limassol, where you can enjoy lively nightlife in a uniquely beautiful setting. Are you willing to combine a real-life experience with promising career opportunities? Then we have room for you at Criteo Cyprus.

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