Senior Backend Engineer - Listing Visibility (w/m/d)

Company Description

You'll be joining one of the world’s largest privately owned real estate tech companies. Our mission is to unlock everyone’s perfect place!  You'll work across some of Europe’s best known digital real estate brands including: 🇫🇷 Meilleurs Agents, 🇫🇷 Groupe SeLoger, 🇧🇪 Immoweb, 🇩🇪 Immowelt, 🇪🇸 Housell and 🇮🇱 Yad2.

Job location - Berlin or Nüremberg. Hybrid model.

Job Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a crucial role in developing and maintaining the backend infrastructure, APIs, and services to support supply-demand matching initiatives. This is an exciting opportunity, where you will have the chance to be autonomous and creative in shaping our product strategy and implementing innovative white-label solutions. 

Projects that you will work on: 

• Listing Sort Order
• Listing Machine Learning Recommendation
• Listing Classified Quality Score

What you can expect

• Be part of a large tech organisation with 50+ delivery teams: Assuming the scale, your work will impact a large number of stakeholders.
• Best path for classified ranking: Design and implement scalable, efficient backend systems to meet needs for Marketplace Quality and Matching efficiency across various markets.
• Challenge status quo: By delving into existing scoring systems to understand architecture, data flow, and functionality. Evaluate for seamless migration to white-label capabilities.
• API Development: Build RESTful APIs and implement data validation and authentication mechanisms for secure communication, ensuring seamless integration between frontend and backend systems.
• Optimization and Scalability: Optimize backend components for performance, scalability, and security, while also considering the flexibility and extensibility required for white-label configurations.
• Code Review and Quality Assurance: Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and ensure coding best practices are followed, with a specific focus on maintaining backend quality standards.
• Integration and Collaboration: Work closely with Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and Product Analysts to integrate their algorithms and models into the backend systems, ensuring seamless data flow and frontend integration.
• Continuous Improvement: Monitor the performance of backend systems and APIs, identifying areas for improvement and implementing solutions to enhance efficiency and reliability.

Qualifications

About you

Soft skill

• Communication skills (give and receive constructive feedback, data driven argumentation, cross communication (written and verbal) and collaboration).
• Fast learning and curiosity.
• Problem solving skills and tackling complexity.
• Proactivity (not “not in my scope” attitude, but rather “go getter” attitude).

Tech skills

• Having solid experience in software engineering while building backends, APIs, data solutions and distributed systems.
• Experience with microservice, serverless, or event-driven architectures.
• Programming Languages: any modern programming language (Python, JS/TS, Java, Kotlin, C#, Go, etc). 
• Nice to haves: experience in DevOps, Data engineering or DataScience fields.

Tech Stack
We do not limit ourselves to a particular set of technologies and this is what we use right now:

• AWS (Lambda, API GW, DynamoDB, SNS/SQS, S3, Glue, Athena, Kinesis, Aurora, etc)
• Python, TypeScript
• OpenAPI, AsyncAPI
• Jupyter, pandas
• Github, CircleCI, Datadog, Terraform, Docker

Additional Information

About us

At AVIV, we are an equal opportunities employer and an organisation where everyone is welcomed to be their authentic selves. We strongly encourage individuals with visible and non visible disabilities, all educational backgrounds, people from minority backgrounds, those from the LGBTQIA+ community and parents and carers to apply.  If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, or wish to discuss part time or flexible working requirements, please let us know.

In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).

Our ambition is to be the leading Employer in PropTech across Europe and this is a pivotal time to join us and unlock your perfect job!

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