Ad server and SSP technology for European broadcasters and TV publishers
smartclip, RTL Group's adtech unit, builds ad serving and supply-side tech for broadcasters, with a TypeScript/Node.js backend, HbbTV device frameworks and a Spark, Trino and Prefect data layer. Hiring is almost entirely engineering and data, focused on terabyte-scale TV data, noisy alerting, and swapping enterprise SaaS for in-house tools, which points to a platform team owning more of its own stack.
smartclip is the advertising technology business of RTL Group, founded in 2008 and headquartered in Hamburg. It develops proprietary ad server and SSP technology for European broadcasters and publishers, covering in-stream, out-stream, addressable TV, connected TV, audio and gaming formats. The company employs 51–200 people and has offices in Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Gütersloh, Amsterdam and Paris. Current hiring is concentrated in Germany.
smartclip runs Node.js and TypeScript services (Koa, Express.js, Fastify) on PostgreSQL, Docker and Kubernetes across AWS and GCP, with React, GraphQL, HbbTV, and Spark, Trino, Prefect and Scala for data.
Yes. Engineering dominates smartclip's open roles, with additional data positions, mostly mid and senior level, all based in Germany.
Microservices, external API integrations, frameworks and SDKs for TV devices, HbbTV/CTV/DVB protocol work, CI/CD modernization, Kubernetes infrastructure and an expanded observability stack.
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