Staff Software Engineer (Tech Lead)

We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer (Tech Lead) to drive the expansion of Moloco Commerce Media (MCM) in European markets. MCM’s enterprise platform helps retailers of all sizes build and monetize their retail-media advertising business. Our global-scale infrastructure handles billions of ad auctions everyday, while our cutting-edge machine learning (ML) delivers high performance for advertisers and quality experiences for retail shoppers. The MCM engineering team is responsible for the foundational systems underlying this platform, including core ad-serving, campaign management, data infrastructure, and customer integrations.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and operate an end-to-end enterprise platform that remains fast, reliable and secure at scale.
• Build and maintain APIs and features for campaign management, ad serving, targeting, data ingestion and export, reporting and analytics, etc.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance for a site-based engineering team to deliver on their roadmap.
• Directly engage with customers to identify gaps, translate real world needs into engineering solutions, and deliver outcomes including legacy platform migrations, data connectors, bespoke features, workflows and analytics.
• Contribute to the strategic vision of the platform, influencing technical decisions and long-term architecture.
• Explore and prototype next generation features including those enabled by generative AI.

• 8+ years software development experience using one or more modern languages such as Java, Python and Go.
• 2+ years of leadership experience in delivering technical projects with a small (5+) team of engineers.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale distributed systems, from requirements gathering and design to implementation and production deployment.
• Experience in building platforms for digital advertising or e-commerce applications.
• Experience with cloud-based technologies (e.g., AWS, GCE, GCP, Beam, Spark, BigTable, BigQuery etc.).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build and maintain cross-functional and customer relationships.
• Experience working directly with customers or in a customer-facing role.
• Willingness to travel as needed (up to 20% travel).
• Multilingual proficiency (English, French preferred).