Lead Engineer - Marketing and Advertising

How do you make our customers happy?

By leading and taking accountability with your team to develop high-performance services and solutions for our platform. As Lead Engineer in a distributed team of 6 engineers and product colleagues, you’ll be the ‘guardian’ ensuring deployments are reliable, scalable and enhances the experience for our 13 million customers*. Are you up to the challenge?

The biggest challenge

This role requires balancing rapid development with enterprise architecture while remaining hands-on in the codebase. Can you ensure adaptability without compromising stability? Can you design solutions that are both best-in-class and quick to market? If you’re nodding, we should talk.

What you'll do as Lead Engineer

As the Lead Engineer you’ll be the compass for your multidisciplinary product team consisting of Software Engineers and Data Scientists. You’ll co-lead with the Product Manager to ensure your plans are aligned with the big picture, both on innovative features and technical changes. You will be a driving for on ensuring feasibility during discovery phases and collaborate with other Lead Engineers on cross-team architecture and technical decisions. You will collaborate closely with your Engineering Manager to optimize team performance, drive technical decision-making, and design effective solutions.

Within the Marketing & Advertising area, you will be in a critical role of driving change in our engineering culture, delivering high quality solutions within one of our mission critical product groups and celebrating small and big wins with your team members. With your team, you will help advertisers to optimize their advertising strategy on the our platform by providing actionable and data driven advise. You will lead your team to success by collaborating with not only web/app shop teams but other teams and business stakeholders within Marketing & Advertising and own the context of your team. This is a great team in which your decisions will have big impact in the growth of Bol.

You’ll be the champion of code quality, the architect well-designed and pragmatic solutions, and the bridge between your team’s work and our broader enterprise architecture. While you won’t manage the team directly, you’ll lead by example, actively contributing to the codebase and making key technical decisions! You’ll be crucial in maintaining the health of our systems, continuously improving solutions, and ensuring that every product we build is not just functional, but exceptional. Additionally, you’ll be the first point of contact for technical matters, translating complex concepts for non-technical stakeholders when needed.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading daily engineering efforts for your product team
• Planning the team commitments together with your co-lead PM
• Designing solutions that neatly align with our enterprise architecture
• Ensuring technical and architectural health of team solutions
• Making and overseeing technical decisions within the team
• Guarding code quality and feasibility in product discovery
• Actively contributing to the team’s codebase
• Serving as the technical liaison for your team

Key qualifications

- 8+ years of experience in software development in complex, fast-paced environments.
- Experience in leading a team of engineers without mandate in building scalable, high-performance solutions that is mission critical.
- Strong architectural and solution design skills aligned with enterprise architecture.
- Pragmatic, results-driven leadership focused on delivery and technical integrity.
- Collaborative team player who empowers engineers while making critical decisions.
- Active contributor to the codebase, ensuring code quality and innovative solutions.
- Excellent communicator, effectively coordinating with other teams, Engineering Managers, Product Managers and stakeholders.
- Hands-on experience with Kotlin/Java, building scalable backend services.
- Strong Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform, including CloudSQL and container orchestration with Kubernetes.

Where you'll be working

Welcome to bol, the e-commerce wonderland where 13 million customers shop from a treasure trove of 37 million products. You’ll be part of a team that builds and maintains the financial infrastructure that ensures seamless transactions, accurate invoicing. By developing scalable and high-performance services, you’ll play a crucial role in optimizing the monetization strategy that fuels our advertising ecosystem.