Lead Engineer, Software

Company description

Publicis Groupe is a global leader in communication and is positioned at every step of the value chain, from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation. Through a unified and fluid organization, Publicis Groupe partners with its clients across communication, media, data and technology to ensure access to the full breadth of capabilities in every market. Present in over 100 countries, Publicis Groupe employs around 103,000 professionals.

Senior software engineer eager to be part of a team working on product development using dotnet/C#, MSSQL, AWS, containerized services, and SPA-based UI applications. You will take part in scrum ceremonies, work with Product owners and other stakeholders to create requirements and user stories, and be responsible for the features you are working on. You will be hands‑on programming new features or pair programming with other developers, performing code reviews and creating technical designs.

You will work in an agile environment and be part of a large technology group with many product teams.

• Help define requirements and acceptance criteria and turn them into practical software designs.
• Program within standards, best practices, and patterns set by the organization or team leads.
• Build products that involve RESTful, multiple services, database systems, caching systems, logging, and APM integrations.
• Mentor developers through code reviews and other means to help them grow and adapt to the architecture designated for the project.
• Assess and provide recommendations for new systems that would benefit the product and work with vendors to design the integration and a migration path if needed.
• Create Technical specifications, Architecture diagrams, and presentations to Architects and Technical leads for system or design proposals.
• Provide technical direction to UX, Creative teams, and UI developers to find the most appropriate solution and application architecture that meets the requirements and other aspects of the project.
• Participate in deployment calls, build CI/CD pipelines, and manage Dev Ops processes.

• Advanced experience with dotnet and C#, with relational databases, MSSQL or Postgre
  
  SQL.
• Experience writing unit tests and working with OOP, design patterns, and writing clean code.
• Experience working version control systems such as Git, defining SCM strategies, and managing branching for deployments, hotfixes and ongoing work.
• Intermediate knowledge of building cloud-hosted containerized applications, building web applications that utilize SPA UI frontends interacting with RESTful APIs.
• Experience with microservices and related architectures and patterns, various types of databases, optimizing queries, designing schemas and ETL processes, debugging, monitoring, and performance‑tuning production applications, working with Cache, Search, and Messaging systems.
• Knowledge of different architectural styles, e.g., Onion, DDD, Ports and Adapters, and event‑driven architectures, containerized applications, IaC, and orchestration solutions.
• Data systems like Databricks or Snowflake.
• Understanding of data security and compliance.
• Prompt Engineering, working with LLM APIs, integrating ML models in production websites and pipelines.
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.
• 5+ years of relevant development experience.

About the Groupe:

Publicis Groupe, known for its world‑renowned creativity, best in class technology, digital and consulting expertise, is the world’s second largest communications group in the world. With more than 80,000 people in over 100 countries, the Groupe has four Solution hubs:
Creative with Publicis Communications, Media with Publicis Media, Digital business transformation with Publicis.

Sapient, and Health & Wellbeing with Publicis Health.

Since 2014 and the acquisition of Sapient, Publicis Groupe has undergone a profound transformation by scaling a new model connecting data, creativity and technology. We have continued on that journey with the 2019 acquisition of Epsilon to further scale our data‑led offering…