Director Engineering, Adtech & Marketplace

Job Description

About your tasks:

• Shape Retail Media & Marketplace: Set the engineering direction across both domains, deciding where the platforms should converge to create the most value for brands, sellers and Redcare.
• Lead and grow the organisation: Develop your Engineering Managers and their teams, shaping the organisation as the domains evolve while creating an environment with clear ownership and autonomy.
• Drive engineering excellence: Own delivery, reliability, architecture and technical debt, continuously raising engineering maturity and enabling teams to move quickly without compromising quality.
• Turn technology into commercial impact: Co-own roadmaps with Product and Commercial, connecting engineering priorities to outcomes such as take rate, advertiser ROAS, seller economics and contribution margin .
• Own strategic partnerships: Lead engineering relationships with external platforms, integrators and agencies, including build/buy/partner decisions, integrations, SLAs and vendor performance .

Qualifications

About you:

• You have 3+ years of experience leading multiple engineering teams through managers or leads and have successfully led organisations through significant change, such as merging domains, introducing new scope or replacing a platform.
• You have led development of commercial B2B platforms such as a marketplace, retail media, ad tech, payments or a seller/partner platform, with experience across high-traffic and transactional systems.
• You combine strong technical judgement with commercial thinking , connecting engineering decisions to business outcomes and confidently partnering with senior Product and Commercial stakeholders.
• You care deeply about engineering excellence , can demonstrate measurable improvements you have driven, and are comfortable navigating ambiguity, external partners and competing priorities. Strong English communication skills are essential.

Additional Information

About your benefits:

In order to provide you with the best possible support for your individual needs - whether it‘s living a healthy life, having enough time for your family, or developing your skills - we offer a wide range of different, site-specific benefits:

• Sports: Stay healthy. Profit from a membership (M) package at Urban Sports Club, so that you can take advantage of a huge variety of sport offers.
• Work from Home: If your job does not require you to be present in the office, we can arrange the place you work from individually - even for up to 20 days a year anywhere in the EU.
• Personal development: Grow! We support and encourage your individual development through various in- and external trainings.
• Vacation: 30 days paid vacation per annum (plus another day on Rosenmontag) and the option to take unpaid vacation of up to 10 days (after one year working with us).
• Corporate pension plan: We offer a company pension scheme and have a dedicated external consultant to offer you the best guidance and advice.