9 days ago

Senior Software Engineer — Mobile Focus SMG swiss marketplace group (ex Ricardo)

Digital platforms for real estate, automotive, marketplaces, and finance.

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Permanent

Valbonne

Remote: Not specified

Salary: Not specified

< 6 months

9 days ago

You'll be part of

38 employees

E-commerce

Digital

SocialTech / GreenTech

Average age: 38

Founded in 1999

68%

32%

Revenue: 48M CHF (Ricardo)

About ricardo.ch

Today, ricardo.ch is the largest online marketplace in Switzerland with over 1.5 million listed items and more than 2 million users. We aim to improve our platform, innovate, grow the marketplace even further. If you enjoy challenges at scale, high energy work, and are creative in the solutions you bring, we are excited to hear from you!

About us

ricardo.ch engineering is the largest part of EPD - a unified Engineering, Product and Design department. We work cross-functionally, with around 6-8 teams active on different topics at once. We share a hack day-style way of working, with weekly public stand-ups and demos, strong self-organization, and individual responsibility. With over 40 engineers, and three offices (Zug - Switzerland, Belgrade - Serbia, Valbonne - France), we work closely with our colleagues across borders. Together, we partake in workshops, hack days, and organise special events/projects for innovation, learning, and experiments. Our culture is geek, our working style is agile, and our mindset is collaborative.

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Company Description

Welcome to SMG Swiss Marketplace Group

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group is a digital pioneer building marketplaces and products that simplify people’s lives. With colleagues from around the world, we’re driven by growth, simplicity and digital innovation.

Our office is located in the technology park of Sophia Antipolis.

Great features span the whole system. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our General Marketplaces business unit and help shape the mobile experience on Ricardo, from our iOS and Android apps to the backend services powering them.

At SMG, our strength lies in our people. Here are two team members you’d work with:

Zsolt Kovacs — LinkedIn
Jérôme Hascoet — LinkedIn

Job Description

What you'll do 🛠️

Own features end to end: work with Product and Design to shape solutions, build across mobile and backend, and follow through after release.
Build for both mobile platforms: contribute to our iOS and Android apps, creating experiences that feel right on each platform.
Develop our shared Kotlin Multiplatform layer: share logic where it brings value and make thoughtful decisions about what belongs in shared or platform-specific code.
Contribute to our backend: build and evolve the APIs and services your features need.

We're looking for

Interviewing

Java

GitHub

Primary

Android

What you bring 📱

Must-haves:

3+ years building products and shopping code to production
Strong production mobile experience: you’ve built and shipped substantial features on iOS or Android, with deep expertise in at least one platform.
Willingness to work across the full scope: you want to contribute to iOS, Android, shared Kotlin Multiplatform code, and backend services as a regular part of your role.
Experience beyond your primary platform: you’ve made meaningful contributions to another mobile platform, shared mobile code, or backend services.
Solid backend and API sense: you can build the endpoints your app needs, not just consume them.
Ownership and initiative: you can unblock yourself by clarifying an ambiguous problem, proposing a solution, and carrying it through to production.
Good English: our team is international and English is our working language.

Nice-to haves:

Experience building backend services, especially in Go or Java.
Experience shipping a mobile app, having contributed to both iOS and Android.
Experience working with Kotlin Multiplatform.
Experience designing APIs and monitoring or troubleshooting features in production.

You'll thrive here if... ✅

You think about the complete user journey and the systems behind it.
You enjoy developing expertise while learning from colleagues in other areas.
You can weigh code sharing against platform-specific needs.
You care about shipping useful features, maintaining code quality, and learning from what happens after release.

Additional Information

What we offer 🤝

Hybrid work: 2 days in office, 3 days from home — your choice which days
37 days off: 25 holidays + 12 recovery days
Learning budget: Conferences, courses, books — invest in yourself
Dedicated AI budget: Explore and use tools that help you build, learn, and work more effectively.
Great gear: MacBook Pro, ergonomic setup, and all the coffee & tea you need ☕
Swiss trips: Regular visits to our Zurich HQ
Team culture: Apéros, team events, and people who actually like working together

Hiring process 📆

We believe hiring is a two-way street. Here's what to expect:

Recruiter pre-screen (20 min) — a first conversation to learn more about your experience and answer any initial questions
Intro call with Zsolt (45 min) — get to know each other and answer your questions
Design session (45 min) — discuss how you’d approach a real problem
Coding session (60 min) — pair on a practical challenge, with no trick questions
Team fit & HR (90 min) — meet the team and discuss logistics

Location: You must be based in France, hold a valid work permit, and be willing to relocate within 100 km of our Sophia Antipolis office.

Ready? 🚀 Send your CV in English and let's talk. Feel free to include a link to your GitHub, a blog post, or anything that shows how you think.

🔥 To learn more about us, visit our Welcome To the Jungle page!

About Us

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group is a pioneering network of online marketplaces and a cutting-edge digital company that simplifies people’s lives with innovative products.

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group provides customers with the best tools to meet their life decision needs. The portfolio includes Real Estate (ImmoScout24, Homegate, Flatfox, CASASOFT, IAZI), Automotive (AutoScout24, MotoScout24), General Marketplaces (anibis.ch, tutti.ch, Ricardo) and Finance & Insurance (FinanceScout24, moneyland.ch).

Disclaimer

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group primarily engages with candidates directly. We do not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies unless we have specifically requested their assistance for particular roles. Any submissions made without a prior request from our Talent Acquisition team will not be acknowledged or considered. We appreciate the understanding and cooperation of recruitment agencies in respecting this policy.