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Senior SDE Lead

  • Hybrid -
    • Toronto, Canada
  • Engineering
  • Permanent - Full Time

Senior SDE Lead

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Job ID: r20267

What You'll Do:

  • Lead a team of 3 to 5 data engineers, whom you will guide, oversee and help grow
  • Contribute to promoting a strong engineering culture, passion for quality and things well done
  • Draft and review technical designs for the team’s projects
  • Interact with the Product Management team to clarify requirements and provide guidance for building the product roadmap
  • Lead by example through meaningful technical contributions to your team’s scope, such as implementing requirements in a variety of technical stacks*, reviewing the code that your team commits, or deploying and monitoring your team’s applications
  • Define and present your team’s technical roadmap, for addressing technical debt, improving the codebase maturity, reducing the maintenance effort, etc.
  • Interact with other, multi-cultural R&D teams to ensure the right communication between the client-facing applications and the other Criteo systems

Who You Are:

  • Experience in managing a software development team, providing regular feedback, mentorship or coaching to software engineers
  • BS in Software Engineering or related field, with 7+ years of programming experience in Object-Oriented languages (e.g., C#, Java, Scala).
  • Proficient in core software engineering concepts (data structures, algorithms, optimization) and hands-on experience with tools like SQL, Kafka, Hadoop, or Flink (nice to have).
  • Ideal to have experience in financial data pipelines and data streaming applications.
  • Passionate about transforming complex requirements and code into clear, maintainable, and high-performance solutions.
  • A strong communicator and collaborative team player, dedicated to working effectively with others and contributing to team growth.
  • Committed to building exceptional customer experiences through quality design, automated testing, and continuous improvement.
  • A creative technologist with a strong desire to ship high-quality, impactful code, while continuously solving problems and enhancing product value.

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 a leader in commerce media, helping brands, agencies, and publishers create meaningful consumer connections through AI-powered advertising solutions. We’re shaping a more open and sustainable digital future for advertising.

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.

What We Offer:

🏢 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.

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

$160,320 - $200,400

In addition to the Canadian base salary, Criteo also provides a $71.00 work from home allowance.

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!!

Ways of Working

Trust and flexibility are at our core, so is the power of being together. Our hybrid model blends empowerment with shared in-person experiences, making space for both. We believe this is the most valuable way to foster collaboration in a way that helps us grow, together.

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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!
Our culture
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Meet our Criteos in Canada!

Welcome to Canada! We are thrilled to have built a presence across such an amazing country. Through our network of virtual hubs, you'll find a collaborative and supportive team spirit that will nurture your skills and encourage you to grow. Joining us in Canada is an opportunity to enjoy the benefits of flexible working while feeling connected to both a supportive community and a stimulating company project. Join our team and build the career path you want!

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