**In the four Tech Hubs, Adevinta’s Global Teams use their knowledge and networks to support and connect the local brands. **
By joining one of the Hubs, you’ll be working on projects that help solve real-world problems for the three billion monthly users, using cutting edge technology to create highly scalable, customisable and secure products and components.
Adevinta’s Barcelona office is home to 1,200 Adevintans from both Global Teams and Adevinta Spain, a group of local Spanish marketplaces. It’s located in the lively Poblenou area, has fantastic views of the skyline and is only ten minutes from the beach!
The Paris office is located in Sentier, a very central area where you’ll find plenty of tasty restaurants and bars. The Global Teams share the beautiful green office space and terrace with leboncoin group, their French marketplace.
The Tech Hub in Amsterdam is home to over 2,000 individuals from diverse nationalities, where Global Teams work alongside Adevinta Benelux teams who lead local marketplaces.
The Berlin offices are home to the Global Teams and local marketplaces, mobile.de and eBay Kleinanzeigen. The teams there are surrounded with gorgeous green spaces and colourful urban architecture to liven up the workplace.
Want to know what Adevinta’s teams are working on? Let’s deep dive into some internal projects.
If you want to learn about more team projects, take a look at our Tech blog here.
Learn why and how Adevinta teams are deprecating their legacy configuration management system, AWS CloudFormation, towards Terraform. They use “Infrastructure as code” to manage their configuration. Although the AWS CloudFormation service was reliable, there were several flaws that led them to migrate to a better solution - Terraform. To learn more about the reasons for this decision and the process they followed to deprecate their CloudFormation stacks, here’s the full article.
Here’s an article from a data engineer’s perspective on how effective collaboration is vital at each stage of developing Adevinta’s machine learning (ML) platform. When they started working on an ML platform, the team decided to internalise the process and create a platform that accommodates their specific needs. To learn more about the development process and what’s needed to get the ML platform up and running, here’s the full article.
What happens when you treat data as a product? Teams in Adevinta are on the journey to creating a federated data architecture for analytics. They went through lots of challenges and shared about how the implementation is going and illustrated their experience with a real-life example from one of their domains. More info here.
Adevinta is a global classifieds specialist, with +40 online marketplaces in 13 countries, with 8,100 employees. Through their trusted brands, including leboncoin in France, mobile.de in Germany and 2dehands in The Netherlands, they create perfect matches.
They connect house-hunters to new homes, jobseekers to new careers and buyers and sellers to give previously-owned products a new life, all helping to create brighter futures for millions of people. By making these connections, they’re creating positive change for the world and helping to build a more sustainable future.
Adevinta is always looking to extend its family composed of many different nationalities, cultures and backgrounds. Engineers who use the latest and greatest technologies (Kafka, Spark, Go, AWS...), are eager to learn and willing to make a global impact by helping local marketplaces grow and develop new functionalities are more than welcome!
Adevinta is a collaborative place to work where people enjoy flexibility and the option to work remotely. They believe work-life balance is key to ensuring their well-being, along with personal and professional growth.
Also good to know: Adevintans have team gatherings across Europe, drinks (on their rooftop in Paris or Barcelona), off-sites, language classes, gym classes… And they’re always open to new ideas!