Senior SDE Lead
Criteo
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Posted on Feb 25, 2026
What You'll Do:
- Lead and mentor a team of 3–5 engineers, supporting their growth and delivery.
- Contribute hands-on to design, implementation, code reviews, deployment, and monitoring.
- Own and evolve the Retail Media External API platform, building shared libraries, SDKs, and tooling to enable consistent, secure, and observable APIs.
- Define and drive the technical roadmap, addressing technical debt and strengthening reusable platform capabilities (e.g., middleware, auth, schema management, observability).
- Partner with Product and domain teams to shape requirements and roadmap, ensuring effective API exposure and clear ownership.
- Lead the shift to a federated API model by coaching teams on best practices and establishing design and review standards.
- Collaborate with cross-functional, multicultural R&D teams to align systems and promote shared standards.
- Balance product priorities with technical and operational needs, ensuring platform investments deliver business value.
Who You Are:
- 7+ years of software development experience
- Experience in managing a software development team, providing regular feedback, mentorship or coaching to software engineers
- You have a rock-solid foundation in Computer Science (data structures, algorithms, software design)
- You are experienced with architecting, developing, and extending large and complex systems.
- A passion for shipping quality high-performance code. You are a problem solver, a fixer, and a creative technologist.
- A demonstrated track record of taking the initiative and acting as a technical lead
- A strong sense of ownership and a dislike for passing the buck
- A strong communicator and a team player who can work efficiently with others
- Experience working with product owners to understand and implement business requirements
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.
For employees based in the US, certain roles at Criteo are eligible for additional rewards, including quarterly or annual bonus and restricted stock units. US-based employees receive access to healthcare, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, family forming and wellness benefits, Flexible Work financial support, learning opportunities, and a robust annual leave plan including volunteer time off and summer vacation days.
The US base salary (USD) pay range for this position per year is:
The Canada base salary (CAD) pay range for this position per year is:
In addition to the Canadian base salary, Criteo also provides a $71.00 work from home allowance.