Senior Software Engineer

WELCOME TO OLX

At OLX, we work together to build a more sustainable world through trade.

We make it safe, smart, and convenient to buy and sell cars, find housing, get jobs, buy and sell household goods, and more. Our colleagues around the world help to serve millions of people around the world every month, through its well-loved consumer brands including OLX, Otodom, Property24.

Join OLX and see how far you can go.

Note before applying: for this role, you can work remotely from anywhere in Poland or work from our office in Poznan or Warsaw.

At OLX we enable our customers to buy and sell anything from homes to phones. The person we are looking to hire will help to revamp our current way of managing the core engine of our classified apps and websites: adding, publishing, and modifying ads on our platforms.

Now we are looking for Senior Software Engineers to join one of the OLX teams.

As a Senior Software Engineer in our team, you'll be collaborating closely with colleague engineers and SREs, the product team, and an Engineering Manager while building one of the newest distributed systems we have in the company.

Our systems are built with Kotlin and Spring and/or Golang and they run on AWS.

We value engineers who have:

• Proven expertise: Professional experience in software development with Kotlin/Java or Golang and web application-related frameworks like Spring, Ktor, Http4k, Micronaut, or similar
• Architectural vision: Passion for architecting, building, and scaling cloud-based systems, serving millions of users
• Technical excellence: Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks
• Cloud savviness: Experience in architecting Cloud Native solutions, AWS is a plus
• Product team experience: Worked in multi-functional international teams
• Ownership mentality: Believe in self-aligned teams and the "you build it, you run it" philosophy

What you will do:

• Lead projects: Drive technical contributions and lead the planning, execution, and success of complex projects
• Collaborate: Be part of a team and establish credibility with the quality of your own and your team’s technical execution
• Innovate: Encourage the team to innovate, invent, implement, and deploy complex software solutions
• Own it: Ask questions, brainstorm, and own the product we are building
• Align with product: Work closely with the product management team to ensure we’re building the best products for our users

What we’ll give you:

• Base salary depending on skills and an annual bonus: 15%
• Work with and impact all OLX websites around the world
• Train and conference budget and free access to Udemy courses
• A benefits package with 300 points on the Mybenefit platform per month, private medical care provided by Luxmed, Ask Henry services, and much more
• Equipment you might need and a company mobile phone
• 100% remote work (and the possibility to work from our offices in Poznan and Warsaw)

What you can expect from the recruitment process:

• The first step is a meeting with our Tech Recruiter: we are excited to get to know you and tell you more about OLX and the role

• Next, you'll meet one of our Engineering Managers

• Following that, there will be a technical check consisting of live coding tasks and System Design sessions

• Finally, we will provide feedback and, hopefully, extend an offer

Why join OLX?

At OLX, we invest in ourselves and each other to reach our full potential. We avoid bureaucracy and empower our teams to innovate; with opportunities, training, and leadership behaviors a key focus for all. Our commitment to inclusion ensures we listen to a diverse range of voices when making decisions. And, we combine the spirit and agility of a startup with our global scale and the backing of Prosus, one of the largest consumer internet groups in the world.

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