Software Engineer - Marketing Solutions

Software Engineer - Marketing Solutions

Trivago

Düsseldorf, Germany

As a Software Engineer in Marketing Solutions, you’ll have the autonomy to own initiatives from design to deployment, working on high-volume distributed systems while modernizing legacy code. You’ll collaborate across disciplines, mentor colleagues, and drive meaningful impact through pragmatic solutions that scale globally. If you’re motivated by technical challenges, continuous learning, and the opportunity to shape how we build and operate marketing technology, we’d love to hear from you - apply today!

How you’ll make an impact:

• Maintain: Support and optimise our existing suite of marketing technology products.
• Build: Design and develop new products and features, handling high-volume, distributed workflows.
• Modernise: Contribute to the migration and modernisation of legacy systems and delete old code.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with technical and non-technical teams, contributing to design and product discussions.
• Operate across the full lifecycle: from design and implementation to deployment and monitoring.
• Actively mentor colleagues and contribute with pragmatic, actionable feedback in code reviews, pair programming sessions etc.
• Bring a hands-on approach, iterate quickly, and get things live.

What you’ll need to thrive:

• Solid experience in web and backend development.
• Familiarity with AI coding assistants to accelerate development workflows.
• Ability to switch context and work on multiple products/services with varying degrees of complexity and technical debt.
• Autonomy, self-motivation, and adaptability are essential: you own your outcomes and can find a path forward with sometimes ambiguous requirements.
• A pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach and a passion for simplicity in design.
• Comfortable with legacy code and migrations as part of everyday life.
• Strong async collaboration and communication skills; you enjoy explaining concepts across disciplines.
• Critical thinking in code validation for reviewing and debugging AI-generated code.

Stand out with:

• Broad experience across the stack, being able to develop simple frontends (React/JS) is a big plus.
• Experience in high-volume, internationalised MarTech, AdTech environments.
• Experience building products from scratch.
• Enthusiasm for documentation and helping colleagues develop their skills.
• Willingness to jump in wherever needed - even if it’s not always “pure coding”