Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d)

Location:
Hybrid in Lisbon (minimum of 2-3 days a week from the office)

SHAPE THE FUTURE OF PRIVACY WITH USERCENTRICS:
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. Our customers build trust with their users through improved transparency and control to drastically improve marketing and monetization, while achieving full privacy compliance.

We are looking for a data-driven, outcome-oriented Senior Software Engineer for our Growth – Retention team to design and implement retention initiatives that deliver measurable impact across churn reduction, retained ARR, and Net and Gross Revenue Retention.

In this role, you will be accountable for translating strategic initiatives into shipped product, owning end-to-end execution from implementation and deployment to monitoring and iteration. You will work hands-on across multiple products, partnering closely with Product, Data, and other Engineering teams to drive results.

This role is ideal for a Senior Engineer who thrives on ownership, moves quickly from insight to action, and enjoys collaborating deeply across functions to deliver customer and business impact.

Your Tasks:
• Own end-to-end technical delivery of retention initiatives, from design and implementation to deployment and monitoring
• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend solutions that impact churn and revenue retention
• Lead technical execution of experiments (feature flags, A/B tests), ensuring reliable rollout, measurement, and rollback
• Implement and maintain observability, instrumentation, and data pipelines to track retention-related metrics
• Ensure high engineering standards through code reviews, testing, and operational best practices

You Bring:
• 5+ years of experience with strong backend exposure
• Deep hands-on experience in .NET, C#
• Strong proficiency in Node.js is a plus
• Solid grounding in API/Service design and security
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native infrastructure (Azure or GCP is a plus)
• Ability to lead system designs discussions and influence architectural directions

Nice to Have
• Experience building software in finance-related domains
• Previous experience working in Growth, Retention, or Experimentation-focused teams

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Usercentrics we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Why join Usercentrics?:
• Joining Usercentrics means becoming part of a fast-growing, diverse and international team of tech enthusiasts and entrepreneurially-minded who build our success story together
• Company culture is important to us - we strive to continuously develop a positive, vibrant and inspiring environment that enables everyone to thrive both personally and professionally
• Get involved! We have plenty of initiatives and love to see people from all department enthusiastically participating and shaping our future together in different cross-department projects
• Your work-life balance is important to us too - we offer flexible working hours, hybrid working and the possibility of workcations (in accordance with our company policy)
• We always remember to have fun along the way, both in our day-to-day work and at our regular team events on site in our offices in Munich, Copenhagen, Odense, Lisbon and Prague or online
• You are the most valuable asset to our company which is why we’re happy to offer awesome benefits like our personal development budget, job-related language courses and a lot more (depending on your location) to focus on your well being

Some of our benefits• Development Budget for every employee: 800,-EUR/ year
• Job-related Language Courses (English, German, Czech, Spanish etc.): 350,- EUR/ year
• Hybrid working policy and the possibility to take a workcation (90 days per year from a European country)
• Online yoga sessions
• Headspace App
• Events - Team Buildings, happy hours, parties/get togethers, occasional company covered breakfasts/lunches, in/across offices, online/in person etc.
• Gifts - We celebrate life & work milestones at UC (work anniversaries, new bom babies and similar)
• Snacks, fruits, coffee and drinks in the office