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