Joana Marta Navarro

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Senior Engineering Manager at Criteo · Search and ranking

Criteo
Lisbon, Portugal · WET (UTC+0)
12+ years experience
Stockholm School of Economics
English, Portuguese
Open to work
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Overview

17 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Criteo, where I lead the search team. Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion. Grew the search team from 6 to 38 engineers. Most at home with Python and Lucene.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in search and ranking
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Second opinions on Lucene decisions
Please don't message about
  • Requests to fix your code for free
  • Generic networking requests
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches

Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
LucenePythonlearning to rankJavaA/B testing
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Senior Software Engineer roles in energy - Lisbon or remote

Target roles
Senior Software Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
AI infrastructure, Healthtech
Work mode
On-site
Available
90 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in Portugal
What I'm looking for
A team that ships weekly and owns search end to end.
Not interested in
Pure people management

17 years in search and ranking. Strongest at Java and Lucene. Can start in about six weeks.

Lisbon, Portugala/b testingjavalearning to rank
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Dec 2022 - Present
    Criteo · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Led the migration of 47 services to learning to rank.
    • Grew the search team from 3 to 16 engineers.
    • Shipped 28 launches on the search team without a rollback.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Jun 2021 - Aug 2022
    SAP · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Moved 84% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Staff Software Engineer
    Sep 2018 - Jun 2021
    Telefónica · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Grew the search team from 6 to 13 engineers.
  4. Senior Software Engineer
    May 2017 - Jul 2018
    Personio · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 600ms to 62ms.
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 40% in two quarters.
  5. Senior Software Engineer
    Feb 2015 - May 2017
    Société Générale · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Brought on-call pages for search down from 18 a week to 3.
    • Shipped 7 launches on the search team without a rollback.

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Education

  1. Stockholm School of Economics
    MSc, Electronics and Communication
    2009 - 2011
  2. Sorbonne University
    Licence, Electronics and Communication
    2005 - 2008

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