Director, Engineering

Starcom Mediavest Group Germany Gmbh

$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-12 years of software development experience, with 3-5 years leading teams or architecting solutions.
  • Strong expertise in C#/.NET, including ASP.NET Core and DDD principles.
  • Proficient with AWS services and tools for production systems like EKS and Lambda.
  • Solid understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures.
  • Experience in CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices with Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Knowledge of database design for SQL and NoSQL systems, ensuring performance and scalability.

Responsibilities

  • Translate product vision into software designs and drive implementations for production releases.
  • Set engineering standards and practices across the team to maintain code quality.
  • Lead the development of microservices, ensuring they are observable and secure.
  • Mentor engineers through code and design reviews to align with architectural goals.
  • Evaluate third-party solutions and manage strategic integrations with vendors.
  • Create clear technical documentation and present architectural plans to stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with UX and front-end teams to ensure architectural alignment with user requirements.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical coverage including dental and vision.
  • Disability coverage for peace of mind.
  • 401K retirement plan options.
  • Parental and family care leave for work-life balance.
  • Tuition reimbursement for continued education.
  • Flexible time off to support well-being.
Full Job Description
Passionate, detail oriented, hands-on .NET Team Lead to own the design and delivery of cloud-native, event-driven microservices on AWS. You'll split time between building and leading: writing C#/.NET code, enforcing standards like Clean Architecture/Clean Code/RESTful design, architecting solutions, evaluating and proposing new technologies-while also mentoring engineers, pairing, reviewing code, and setting engineering standards for testing, CI/CD, and observability. You should be able to make independent architecture and product decisions, manage trade-offs, and drive continuous improvement. Partner with product and platform teams and collaborate with front-end, data, devops engineers. Operate in an agile environment within a larger technology organization, owning quality across the SDLC and outcomes for your product domain.

Responsibilities

  • Translate the Product Owner's vision into pragmatic software designs and drive them through implementation to secure, observable, and scalable production releases using standard processes.
  • Set and enforce engineering standards, patterns, and procedures across the team and enterprise (Clean Architecture, testing, security, observability).
  • Lead delivery of RESTful and event-driven microservices, data stores (SQL/NoSQL), caching, and integrations; instrument services with logging and APM.
  • Mentor engineers via design and code reviews, pairing, and feedback to ensure alignment with the target architecture.
  • Evaluate and recommend third-party platforms/tools; design integrations and migration paths with vendors when appropriate.
  • Author clear technical specs and architecture diagrams; present proposals to architects and technical leads.
  • Partner with UX/Design and front-end engineers to align application architecture with user experience and non-functional requirements.
  • Deliver performant, secure, maintainable, and scalable systems in production.


Qualifications

Technical Skills:
  • C#/.NET (ASP.NET Core, async programming, EF Core/Dapper), Clean Architecture, and DDD
  • AWS for production systems: EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, CloudFront, S3, SQL Server/PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQS/SNS, IAM, CloudWatch
  • Microservices & event-driven design: REST/gRPC APIs, messaging, outbox/saga patterns, idempotency, resilience (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers)
  • Containers & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (Helm), image hardening, and Git-based CI/CD (branching strategies, releases, hotfixes)
  • Relational data modeling & performance: schema design, indexing, query tuning, transactions (SQL Server/PostgreSQL)
  • Testing strategy: unit, integration, contract, and load testing; designing for testability
  • Observability & operations: logging, metrics, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry), APM, debugging and performance tuning in production
  • Caching, search, and messaging platforms (e.g., Redis, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Kafka/SNS/SQS)
  • Infrastructure as Code and orchestration pipelines (Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK); GitOps practices
  • Security by design: OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, secrets management, encryption in transit/at rest, OWASP/ASVS, least privilege

Working knowledge of:
  • Data engineering: ingestion, transformation, CDC/ETL, governance and compliance
  • Modern data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake)
  • Integrating AI/ML and LLM APIs into services and pipelines (production readiness, cost/latency/observability) MCP/A2A/Agentic flows

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's in CS or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 10-12+ years of software development with 3-5+ years leading teams/architecting solutions


Additional Information

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

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