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Staff Backend Engineer

Backend EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 10,001+H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

Spain

Posted

73 days ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Lead

Bachelor DegreeEnglishAWSJavaKotlinMicroservicesPHP

Job Description

Staff Backend Engineer

OLX Group

• Aligning Engineering with High-Value Problems. Work closely with product and engineering leadership to propose initiatives and drive impactful technical changes. • Collaborating across teams, guiding senior developers in managing and reducing technical debt. • Building and scaling Global Platforms. Develop and maintain products with billions of page views per month, ensuring scalability and performance. • Solving Complex Technical Challenges. Work with engineers across European offices to deliver solutions that impact millions of users. • Owning and Improving Development Processes. Participate in product design, write and review code, and advocate for quality, security, and performance with a DevOps mindset • Collaborating and learning with the OLX Engineering community.

Job Requirements

  • Big picture thinking. Able to align technical decisions with the organizational strategy and take ownership of technical direction while influencing without direct authority.
  • Critical Thinker and Self-Starter. Identify what needs to be done to achieve unit goals and take initiative.
  • Effective Communicator. Explain complex technical concepts in English to diverse teams and influence decisions for greater impact.
  • Scalable Systems Expertise. Experience with large-scale web applications, an economic-thinking mindset and being able to design well-bounded future-proof domain systems, aligned with the business objectives.
  • You have strong Coding and Computer Science Fundamentals. On average, you will be expected to develop new ideas and review others’ work for ⅔ of the time.
  • Strong background experience in Golang, Java/Kotlin, or PHP (preferred technologies). Flexible and capable of adjusting to changing projects.
  • Skilled Technical Leader and Mentor: Guide and support engineers by setting a strong example. As a Staff Engineer, you are a role model, leading through your actions and expertise.
  • Deep Technical Expertise. Skilled in CI/CD, RESTful APIs, AWS, databases, and one or more of the following: high-performance scalable systems, monolith-to-microservices migration, or taxonomies.

Benefits

  • Permanent contract
  • Salary + annual bonus up to 20% of your annual gross salary
  • Work with and impact all OLX services in Europe
  • Train and conference budget and free access to Udemy courses
  • Health insurance and life insurance
  • MacBook Pro along with the necessary accessories to make your work comfortable
  • 100% remote work (and the possibility to work from our offices in Barcelona)

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