Principal Engineer, Programmatic

Ogury is** a global adtech company** that delivers Personified Advertising solutions grounded in privacy to brands, agencies and publishers by focusing on targeting personas, not people.
- We deliver relevant audiences at scale and on quality publisher inventory thanks to **our exclusive data**, which is meticulously collected and crafted from millions of** self-declared customer surveys, enriched with billions of impactful data points, and refined by AI.** This results in audience insights and performance not available through any other AdTech platform.
- Founded in 2014, Ogury is a global organization with** a diverse team of 500+ people** across 17 countries.
- At Ogury, **our vision unites us all**. But we know that it takes people from all walks of life to come together and make it happen. We **embrace and celebrate what makes us different**, creating a unique and winning culture where everyone **feels safe**, has access to **the same opportunities**, and is excited about bringing their **most authentic self to work**. Everyday.
- Together we’re changing the face of adtech with values that inspire excellence, standards that encourage a leadership mindset, and an inclusive workplace where **Ogurians are engaged and know they belong.**

**About the Role**

As a Principal Engineer at Ogury, you will be a key player in shaping the backend architecture and development processes. You will lead a talented team of backend and full stack software engineers, leveraging your expertise to build scalable and efficient large-scale distributed systems. If you are passionate about creating high-performance systems and have a deep experience on building parts of RTB platforms whether SSP or DSP side, we invite you to join our dynamic team responsible for our Programmatic pipeline.

**What you will be doing**:

- Lead the design, development, and optimization of robust and large scale distributed systems, improving infrastructure and microservices.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to evolve the architecture behind Ogury’s AdTech products.
- We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, the list goes on and is growing every day.
- Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies in AdTech to drive continuous improvement in our solutions.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the engineers that work on our delivery stack and other parts of our transactional processing stacks.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards for maintaining high-quality backend code.
- Identify and implement strategies for optimizing backend performance to ensure efficient and low-latency data processing and delivery.
- Work on improving system reliability and scalability to meet the demands of our dynamic AdTech environment.
- Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure seamless integration between the frontend and backend systems.
- Foster a collaborative and innovative engineering culture within the team.
- Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.

**About you**:

- Strong experience in backend development and demonstrated success developing in Golang and/or Scala.
- Experience within Advertising Technology/Marketing Technology and Programmatic.
- Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
- Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
- Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
- Strong leadership and mentorship skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

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Benefits vary by location but you can expect:
Competitive salary

Health Insurance via Willis Towers Watson.
- Flexible approach to working hours and location.
- Keeping our Ogurians happy and healthy is a priority for us, so we offer access to both physical and mental health and wellbeing benefits.
- Company family mutuelle.
- 25 days holiday plus an extra 10 days.
- Look after your family with a life assurance plan.
- Daily lunch voucher.
- Modern and collaborative working space in central Paris.
- CSE benefits.

At Ogury we are a group of creative thinkers and action-takers that thrive in a diverse and inclusive workplace.