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Lead Staff Software Engineer

London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-20 → 2026-09-26

Core

End-to-end owner designing, building, and delivering data-focused products and large-scale distributed systems for global advertising stakeholders.

Role type

Senior IC/Lead Staff Software Engineer (Technical Leadership & People Management)

Builds

Large-scale distributed systems, petabyte-scale data solutions, machine learning models, advanced visualizations, and interactive user interfaces.

Domain

Digital Advertising Technology / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Technical leadership, people management, distributed systems architecture, cloud platform experience, object-oriented programming (C#, Java, C++), microservices design, Agile methodology, database management (SQL Server), container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), version control (Git)

Preferred skills

First-principles problem solving, strategic business alignment, team efficiency optimization, cross-functional collaboration

Technologies

Docker, Kubernetes, Gitlab, AWS, Azure, Aliyun, .NET Core, SQL Server, Microservices

Responsibilities

Review designs and code, deliver hands-on technical contributions, own project execution and roadmaps, manage small engineering teams, conduct performance reviews and career planning, collaborate with product management on MVP plans.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with people management responsibilities

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