Job DescriptionAbout Rakuten TVRakuten TV is one of Europe's leading video streaming platforms, offering premium transactional (TVOD) and advertising-based (AVOD/FAST) content to millions of users across more than 40 countries. Backed by Rakuten Group — one of the world's largest internet services companies — we operate a cutting-edge B2B2C model, partnering with leading device manufacturers, broadcasters, and advertising networks to deliver premium entertainment experiences. Headquartered in Barcelona, our international team combines deep expertise in technology, content, sales, and finance to drive continued growth across EMEA. We are a data-driven, fast-paced organization that values intellectual curiosity, ownership, and collaboration.
This is a greenfield role — there is no existing architecture to inherit. You will partner with commercial and ad operations teams on yield strategy, translate revenue requirements into architectural decisions, and represent the engineering side of AdTech in conversations with external partners and senior leadership.



What you will be responsible forPlatform architecture design and own the end‐to‐end architecture of our programmatic stack: bid handling, auction logic, CTV ad delivery, and the impression and measurement pipeline. Advertising strategyWorking with the CPO and commercial leadership, you will contribute to the organisation's overall advertising strategy: how programmatic fits within our revenue model, which standards and integrations to lead on, how our ad product evolves, and what capabilities differentiate us in the market.
What we are looking forExperience 8–12 years in AdTech, with a significant portion in programmatic and CTVYou have owned the design of an RTB or bid management system end‐to‐end, not just contributed to oneYou have made or meaningfully influenced build‐vs‐buy decisions on critical stack components and can demonstrate the reasoning behind themYou are comfortable in commercial conversations — floor p

📌 Senior Services Architect (Barcelona)
🏢 Rakuten Asia Pte
📍 Barcelona