Staff Backend Engineer

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

Adevinta operates two services on the Italian market: subito.it: a horizontal platform connecting buyers and sellers and automobile.it: a car trading platform.
 

Adevinta Italy is looking for a Staff backend engineer with experience as a Technical Lead who can help us design and develop our APIs and work in an environment with hundreds of microservices.

In subito.it and automobile.it, you will collaborate with product owners, UX designers, and software engineers to deliver game-changing products. We have an intense “you built it, you run it” approach, so you will automatically deploy and monitor your services to identify issues before our customers do. We move fast with a no-blame approach. Deploy with courage, and if you break it, then fix it!

 

TYPICAL DAY IN SUBITO.IT AND AUTOMOBILE.IT
 

• Catch up with your team in a stand-up meeting

• Check the health of your applications

• Share updates with other engineers from across the company

• Work on the stories in your sprint: write code, test and deploy!

• Monitor your changes as they go live

• Take a break with a free coffee or by playing foosball or ping pong with your colleagues
   

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work together with the Engineering Manager in being a partner for the Product Owner in the assessment of requirements regarding feasibility and effort

• Work together with the Engineering Manager to translate business requirements into tech requirements

• Technical leadership in the development team (this role does not include people leadership)

• Own the entire development cycle together with the cross-functional team, from requirements specification over implementation, test automation, and quality assurance to deployment and monitoring

• Contribute to the team's work with clean, maintainable and testable code and participate in lead design and code reviews

• Actively contribute to and shape business, culture and ways of working
   

YOUR IDENTIKIT

Core:

• Meaningful knowledge in at least two programming languages: Go, Java, Kotlin, and Python. (Go and Java/Kotlin are the preferred ones) and testing practices.

• Meaningful experience in implementing and consuming REST API.

• Confident with event sourcing and Apache Kafka.

• Confident with NoSQL DBs such as MongoDB and Redis as well as RDBMS like MySQL or PostgreSQL

• Confident with search engine platforms like ElasticSearch or Solr

• Knowledge of common microservice architecture patterns and distributed systems.

• Confident in designing the architecture of new services

• Strong responsibility on all product sides, not only at an API level.
   

Pluses:

• Experience in profiling and debugging performance issues

• Knowledge of Docker and container systems in general

• Experience in continuous delivery strategies

• Experience in profiling and debugging performance issues

• Knowledge of web development patterns: MVC, ActiveRecord, Dependency Injection and Clean architecture.

WHAT WE OFFER:

• Full-time employment with flexible working hours and smart working up to 5 days per week

• Competitive total remuneration

• Work with OKR goal-setting framework

• Personal training budget to attend conferences and events

• Challenging collaboration with global teams

• International career and growth opportunities

• Work with cutting-edge technologies and assets

• Healthcare plan, welfare plan and wellbeing initiatives

• Ticket restaurant (even if you work remotely)

• Break with healthy fruits, beverages and coffee (when you work from the office)

• Relaxing area with ping-pong and foosball, of course…

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package

• Opportunity to shape the way we work. Your feedback and opinions are valued at all levels of the organisation

• Benefits including stock purchase plan and annual bonus plans

• Flexibility to work when and how you want - flexible hours, autonomy to set your own agenda, choice of phone and computer

• Smart Working Policy - work remotely some of the time, balanced with time in the office together with your team - between 5 and 45 days per quarter in the office depending on each team.

• ‘Work from anywhere’ weeks - up to four weeks working from anywhere, as long as you have an internet connection!

• Career development, including language classes and Adevinta Academies: specialised content built by our experts on Machine Learning, Agile, Leadership and more

For each working day, you will be eligible for a €8 meal voucher., You can use our local provider Fitprime to maintain physical well-being., You will receive 250 euros on the welfare platform after the birth of your child

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.