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Team Lead Software Engineer - Product Engineering

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

Team Lead Software Engineer - Product Engineering

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Job ID: r20707

What You'll Do:

  • Lead a team of talented engineers, driving the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and maintainable code that processes over 7 billion events every day and growing fast

  • Work with one of the largest private Hadoop clusters in the world, leveraging a cutting-edge tech stack that pushes the boundaries of modern data processing

  • Shape and evolve data models that turn noisy, real-world data into meaningful signals — unlocking complex challenges for the entire engineering community

  • Build and operate high-volume, highly available systems that are critical to the success of the business

  • Play an active role in architecture discussions, help shape the product roadmap, and take full ownership of delivering impactful projects

Who You Are:

  • You hold a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

  • You’ve already led or managed a team of engineers, and you’re passionate about coaching, mentoring, and helping others grow

  • You bring 7+ years of experience in software engineering, ideally working with compiled languages like C#, Java, or Go

  • You have a strong foundation in core Computer Science concepts (data structures, algorithms, data modeling, optimization)

  • You’re comfortable working with ETL pipelines and multi-stage data processing systems

  • You’ve built and evolved systems of significant complexity and enjoy tackling challenging technical problems

  • You care deeply about shipping high-performance, high-quality code

  • You take ownership, act with accountability, and don’t shy away from responsibility

  • You’re a natural problem solver — curious, creative, and driven by a genuine passion for coding

  • You’re a strong communicator and team player, able to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced environment

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:

We’re Criteo, the Commerce Intelligence Platform. Criteo helps businesses turn shopper signals into commerce outcomes while delivering more relevant experiences for shoppers. We use proprietary commerce intelligence and AI decisioning to drive relevance for shoppers and performance for businesses.

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.

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!
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