Staff Backend Engineer – Alerting Systems

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. 

Our brands are supported by global Tech Hubs in Barcelona, Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin. Their goal is to develop common global products and innovation platforms which all of our brands can use. This means using cutting edge technology to create highly scalable, customisable and secure products and components that free up development time and leverage our access to global data.

What you’ll do ​& Who you are

Team’s Mission: 

You’ll be joining the tech team of InfoJobs, whose general mission is to maintain the #1 jobs marketplace position in the Spanish market.   

To achieve this, we are divided into two clusters (candidates and employees) and this position is focused on the candidate's cluster.

The whole cluster is working to solve current candidate pains and you will be involved in interesting projects as:

• Candidates CV parsing where we are able to parse PDF CVs through ML models

• Migration of the current offer alerts system to a new one that allows real time and better matching

• Improve matching between candidates and offers through ML solutions

The mission of your team is to replace the legacy alert system and build a new one. This new system will enable real-time alert delivery via both email and push notifications. Additionally, it will incorporate ML-driven mechanisms to achieve the best possible match between job offers and candidates.

 

 

Position Mission: 

As a Backend Engineer, you will work in one of the product teams of the candidate’s cluster by providing services and solutions that would help millions of users.

You will work closely together with the team to analyse the problems and define hypotheses to solve them.

Those hypotheses will be validated through iterative solutions, experimentation and fail fast culture.

In coordination with other Backends and our Principal you will be responsible for leading the Backend discipline inside Jobs vertical in accordance with our strategy and promote some of the strategic initiatives that are included in our roadmap.

Alignment between several teams is important to provide solutions that could fit all stakeholders at the right moment.

 

Position Main Responsibilities: 

• Lead discussions and contribute to technical decisions, striving for quality, performance, and clean architecture.

• Lead and drive initiatives and changes. 

• Develop and implement systems using best practices and tools then document and communicate them.

• Work in a multi-disciplinary team and develop client-side solutions that will be used by millions of users every day. 

• Mentor and coach the rest of Backends in the vertical.

• Contribute to the definition and delivery of community objectives. 

• Bring creativity and experimentation to your day-to-day activities. 

• Work closely with our Product and UX teams to drive product development and bring further value to our users. 

• Lead and push initiatives as Accelerate metrics to improve our development performance. 

• Provide real-time and scalable service solutions.

• Privacy and security-left mindset.

• Maintain, develop and orchestrate services.

• Ensure that quality and security standards are being achieved.

• Share knowledge to your colleagues and also learn from them.

 

Position Specific Competencies:

Deep understanding and experience with distributed alert systems

Business Partnership

Being Agile

Communicates Effectively

System Thinking

 

Others : 

Must: 

• Strong expertise in real-time alerting systems

• 3 Years of experience in a similar position

• Experience working with Agile frameworks (scrum)

• Kotlin, Java

• Proficiency in building well-tested code.

• Experience building microservices (Spring boot, spring cloud)

• Experience with Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, ECS, Docker Swarm

• Experience with streaming processing tools like Kafka

• Intermediate knowledge of Git

• Experience with CI/CD tools

• Good development practices (SOLID, testing) and security care.

• Self-starter and detail-oriented. You can complete projects with minimal  supervision

• Excellent communication skills and ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams

• Experience working with Agile methodologies

• Fluent in English

Nice to have knowledge:

• Accelerate metrics

• Storytelling skills

• Mentoring and Interviewing skills

Benefits

Life at Adevinta comes with its perks! Our Adevintans enjoy the following benefits: 

• An attractive Base Salary 💸

• Participation in our Short-Term Incentive plan (annual bonus) 🏆

• Work From Anywhere: Enjoy up to 20 days a year of working from anywhere! Maybe not from the moon🌛well why not! just make sure you have internet connection! 🌍

• A 24/7 Employee Assistance Program for you and your family, because we care ❤️‍

• Win together, lose together is one of our key behaviours. At Adevinta you will find a collaborative environment with an opportunity to explore your potential and grow 🌱 

On top of these, we also provide a range of locally relevant benefits. Wanna know more? Apply and ask our recruiters! ✨

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.

If you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role but are interested, please consider applying anyway. Research suggests that women and individuals from underrepresented groups may self-select out of opportunities if they don’t meet 100% of the job requirements. We strongly encourage people from historically excluded groups to apply and look forward to speaking with you.