Product Engineer

Product Engineer (Node.js / React / AdTech) – Contract (6+ Months, Extension Likely)

Location: Remote (EU Time Zones)

Contract Length: 6 months – strong potential for long-term extensions

Start: ASAP

Tech Stack: Node.js, React, APIs, Social/YouTube integrations, AdTech, Creator/UGC discovery

About the Role

We’re looking for a highly experienced Product Engineer to help build a next-generation AdTech platform, supporting categories such as beauty, lifestyle, UGC, and topic-based recommendations for a Euro Retail and Marketing powerhouse.

This contract role sits inside a fast-moving, cross-functional product team building internal tools and white-labelled solutions used across wider business units. You’ll be responsible for scoping, designing, and developing features end-to-end — from backend services to polished, user-friendly front-end experiences.

This is a hands-on build role, perfect for an engineer with strong product instincts and experience delivering consumer-facing or AdTech-driven discovery systems.

Key Responsibilities

Product Engineering & Feature Ownership

- Build and evolve a creator discovery solution end-to-end using Node.js and React
- Own product features from concept → prototype → implementation → iteration
- Work closely with product managers, data teams, and internal partners to define requirements
- Rapidly test, validate, and iterate on user workflows and ranking experiences

API & Platform Integrations

- Integrate with social-platform APIs (e.g., YouTube Data API, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest)
- Develop services to ingest, enrich, and structure creator data (categories, topics, UGC signals, relevance scoring)
- Optimise ingestion and discovery pipelines for performance and scale

AdTech & Recommendation Work

- Build components that support advertising partners, sponsorship matching, and creator-brand fit
- Implement logic for topic/category classification, recommendation ranking, and metadata structuring
- Work on internal tools and white-label solutions used by cross-functional teams

Backend & Frontend Engineering

- Build scalable backend services in Node.js (REST, GraphQL, event-driven services)
- Develop polished UIs in React, ensuring high usability and clarity for internal teams
- Ensure strong code quality, automated testing, and reliable CI/CD

Collaboration & Delivery

- Partner closely with engineering leads, PMs, data scientists, and marketing/AdTech teams
- Operate in a rapid, iterative environment with short feedback loops
- Participate in architectural decisions and contribute to long-term platform direction
- Support a healthy engineering culture focused on velocity, clarity, and product impact

Required Experience

- 5+ years as a product-focused engineer
- Strong hands-on experience with Node.js and React
- Experience integrating with social media APIs (YouTube essential; Instagram/TikTok/Pinterest a plus)
- Experience in AdTech, marketing tech, creator platforms, or discovery/recommendation systems
- Experience building internal tools, dashboards, or white-label solutions
- Strong product mindset — comfortable owning features, making trade-offs, and shipping iteratively
- Ability to translate ambiguous ideas into clear technical plans
- Strong communication, stakeholder alignment, and cross-functional collaboration

Nice to Have

- Experience with video/content metadata (categories, beauty, topics, “lookalike” discovery)
- Understanding of ranking, scoring, or classification models
- Background with UGC/creator ecosystems (YouTube creators, UGC workflows, performance marketing)
- Experience with event-driven microservices or data pipelines
- GraphQL experience
- Experience in high-scale consumer-facing platforms

Why This Role?

- High-impact greenfield project
- Central to the business’ advertising & creator strategy
- Autonomy to shape the product and tech direction
- Flexible remote contract with extensions very likely