Software Engineer

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.

What we’re looking for

• 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.

• 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.