Software Engineer

Usercentrics; München; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Hybrid working: up to 3 remote days/wk

Personal development budget and job‑re

Headspace wellbeing subscription

Top-end laptop provided

Health insurance

Vacation 25–30 days depending on loc

Team events across offices

Employee referral bonus

Yearly work-anniversary rewards

Job summary

Usercentrics, a global data privacy leader, seeks a hands-on engineer in Munich to build and own production full-stack systems. You will ship real features, review AI-generated code, and raise the bar on quality across testing, observability, and CI/CD.

Two levels exist: Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer, chosen by experience and scope. You will work with AI-native workflows, design APIs, and ensure compliant data handling while delivering customer impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience shipping production software.
• A track record of owning a system or domain end to end.
• Strong proficiency in modern full-stack development, e.g., TypeScript/Node.js, .NET and React.
• Deep hands-on experience with AI coding tools and the judgment to review their output.
• Solid grasp of API design, distributed systems and cloud-native architecture.
• Experience running services in production on a major cloud provider; Containers and Kubernetes are a plus.
• Ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes and value.

Responsibilities

• Build and own production systems end-to-end across the full stack.
• Specify, generate, review, and validate AI-generated code with the same rigor as human code.
• Write tests, refactor, and improve the codebase over time.
• Prototype approaches in real code before committing to them.
• Contribute to observability, reliability, security, and CI/CD practices.
• Design services, APIs, and components within your domain.

Skills

Full-stack development

TypeScript/Node.js

.NET

React

AI coding tools

API design

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architecture

Production systems ownership

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

AWS

Job description

Usercentrics is a global leader in data privacy and privacy-led marketing solutions. We believe there is no need for a trade-off between growth and privacy compliance. Our vision is to unlock the potential of data privacy to empower a thriving digital ecosystem. We work with companies to create a healthy balance between data-driven business and privacy-led marketing for every size of enterprise.

We're hiring a hands-on engineer to build and own production systems across our full stack. You'll ship real features and platform components, hold your work and your team's work to a high quality bar, and grow your technical scope over time.

How we build has changed. You'll spend less time typing syntax and more time specifying intent, directing AI coding agents, and reviewing what they produce.

You own the correctness of everything you ship, whoever or whatever wrote the first draft.

We hire at two levels, Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer. The level is set during the process based on your experience and the scope you've owned.

YOUR TASKS:

Build, with AI as a core tool

• Implement features and platform components end-to-end, from design through production
• Specify, generate, review, and validate AI-generated code with the same rigor as your own
• Write tests, refactor, and improve the codebase as you go
• Prototype approaches in real code before committing to them

Raise the bar on quality

• Write maintainable, well-tested, production-grade code
• Give thoughtful code reviews, with extra scrutiny on AI-assisted changes
• Contribute to observability, reliability, security, and CI/CD practices in your team
• Share what works (and what doesn't) with AI-assisted development

Design and decide

• Design services, APIs, and components within your team's domain
• Make pragmatic trade-offs between delivery speed and long-term health, and explain your reasoning

Understand the product

• Connect your work to product outcomes and customer impact
• Give technical input on scope and prioritization instead of just taking tickets
• Work with product and design to keep our data handling compliant and transparent

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience shipping production software
• A track record of owning a system or domain end to end
• Evidence that you've raised a team's engineering standards through mentoring and technical influence
• Strong proficiency in modern full-stack development, for example TypeScript/Node.js, .NET and React
• Deep hands-on experience with AI coding tools, and the judgment to review and stand behind their output
• Solid grasp of API design, distributed systems and cloud-native architecture
• Experience running services in production on a major cloud provider. Containers and Kubernetes are a plus
• The ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes and reason about cost and value
• Pragmatic judgment and comfort with ambiguity

Nice to have

• Experience in privacy, consent management or another regulated-data domain
• Experience introducing or scaling AI-assisted development practices in a team

How we work: AI-native by default

Usercentrics is pushing AI adoption across engineering, and we expect you to work this way from day one. You'll direct AI coding agents and hold their output to the same bar as human-written code.

Benefits

• - Flexible working hours
• - Hybrid working, up to 3 remote days per week, plus workcation (work from abroad) per policy
• - Personal development budget, plus job-related language courses -
• Well-being support: free Headspace subscription, remote meditation and yoga sessions
• - Your choice of a top-end laptop (MacBook or Windows), plus ergonomic equipment
• - Health insurance or coverage, form varies by country
• - Retirement or pension contribution where applicable by location -
• Paid vacation, 25 to 30 days depending on location, plus parental-leave arrangements where applicable
• - Regular team events, dinners, team hikes and sport events across our Munich, Copenhagen, Odense, Lisbon, Prague, New York and Buenos Aires offices
• - Employee referral bonus - Welcome pack of branded Usercentrics merchandise at onboarding
• - Yearly work-anniversary rewards

ABOUT US

We are driven by our values #BeBrave, #BetterTogether, #LeadbyExample, #InnovateWithPurpose, #PassionForPrivacy, #GiveBack and #ComeAsYouAre.

We strive to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential. We are #BetterTogether.