Senior Backend Engineer (Global Growth)
Global Teams Spain
Barcelona, Spain
Media Production / Technology / Engineering
Full-time
Company Description
We? re Adevinta, a global leader in digital marketplaces. Our household name brands, including marktplaats in The Netherlands, Mobile. de in Germany and leboncoin in France, reach hundreds of millions of people every month. We? re all about matchmaking, and our sites help people find whatever they? re looking for in their local communities ? whether it? s a car, an apartment, a sofa or a new job. Every connection made or item found makes a difference by creating a world where people share more and waste less.
We established our Global Headquarters in Barcelona when Adevinta was created in 2019. Here you? ll find most of our Central Functions teams, although we also have people based in our other main hubs in Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin as well as in our local offices across the globe. Our local brands are founded on the connections between people, and as an international group we create networks of talented Adevintans who work together towards a common purpose across geographies and disciplines.
Adevinta is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.
Job Description
Our newly founded Global SEO team is responsible for organic search growth across our portfolio of global sites. We have full ownership of the solutions we provide, meaning our impact shapes both our and our customer? s ways of working. We enable every local market to achieve organic search traffic growth by bringing the best support, enablement, knowledge, trends and data capabilities through best-in-class search infrastructure.
What you? ll do:
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you? ll:
Build Search Marketing products that can scale from one to many tenants, helping us save millions in marketing costs and increase our organic search traffic substantially.
Engineer and implement highly scalable systems, using the best development practices and tools.
Define our infrastructure and mentor junior backend developers with best development practices (i. e. code reviews, testing, etc).
Continuously monitor the quality of our systems and design measurements to keep an eye on their health (both engineering systems and data quality).
Make sure any tech solution that you put in place is scalable, robust and resilient.
Troubleshoot production systems when things go wrong.
Qualifications
Who you are:
A "done better than perfect" attitude and work agile to deliver products that have business impact.
A high degree of effective and proactive communication, both verbally and in written form.
A good understanding of the best practices for developing software (version control, CI/CD, automation, peer-programming, documentation, testing etc. ).
Proven ability and experience developing highly structured computer programmes (Kotlin, Java or equivalent).
The desire to consistently learn and see challenges as an opportunity to keep growing.
Experience in building and maintaining systems at scale: service discovery, load balancing, secret management, dynamic request routing, circuit breakers and deployment schemes (rolling updates, canary, etc. ).
Experience in defining infrastructure as code and willingness to tackle full code lifecycle problems.
Experience in building data pipelines or in projects with huge databases is a nice to have.
Additional Information
What you? ll get from us:
Competitive compensation package
A unique position in an international and dynamic environment
Opportunity to shape the way we work. Your feedback and opinions are valued at all levels of the organisation
The chance to be a key player in a growing, highly skilled team
Great colleagues and a healthy working environment
Benefits including private health insurance, stock purchase plan and bonus
Flexibility to work when and how you want - flexible hours, choose your phone and computer
Career development, including individual training budget and language classes
Flexible benefits programme (transport, restaurants, child-care, etc)
Free daily breakfast
26 days of holiday
Adevinta is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.
Flexibility: We believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. So we provide flexible hours and remote working options that give you the autonomy and scope to set your own agenda and working patterns. We empower our teams to decide which key moments they want to spend face to face, instead of mandating a fixed number of office days.
Covid-19: We? re reviewing the situation on a regular basis to ensure that we follow all local government guidelines and put the health of our people first. All interviews are currently taking place virtually.