Adevinta is a marketplace specialist, operating digital marketplaces in 16 countries in Europe, Latin America and North Africa. Our leading local brands include Leboncoin in France, InfoJobs in Spain, Subito in Italy, Jofogás in Hungary, and Segundamano in Mexico, among many others. Adevinta's local marketplaces thrive through global connections and networks of knowledge.

We develop leading local brands which form an integral part of life for our users, with an average of 1.5 billion visits to our sites every month. And, thanks to the "second hand effect" of buying and selling used goods, our marketplaces promote sustainability and protect the environment by reducing greenhouse emissions.

Adevinta counts more than 3000 employees, with a 1400-strong Product & Technology organization, and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Team Description

MADS is a team comprised of highly skilled and senior engineers, experts in the marketplace ads domain. The team plays an enormous role in helping marketplaces split their legacy monolith, a critical project in order for us to modernize our technical platform and be able to deliver on our business goals.

As a Back-end Engineer, you will get to work on challenging topics where experience and skills matter. You will contribute to  implementing sensible, scalable systems. You will collaborate with the rest of the team and you will contribute to build a strong shared technological and domain expertise in the different marketplaces adopting MADS solutions. You will be part of a team which will have to work closely with the different marketplaces within the Adevinta group.

As a Back-End engineer, you will

• Help build state of the art systems that have real revenue-generating impact
• Engineer and implement highly scalable systems, using the best development practices and tools
• Help define our development environment, and communicate the best development practices within the organization (i.e. code reviews, testing, etc)
• Continuously monitor the quality of our systems, design measurements to monitor their health (both the engineering systems and data integrity)
• Keep on top of the latest and greatest developments in event driven solutions
• Be creative and experiment with new solutions yet pragmatic and committed to code optimization, maintainability, and quality
• Work closely with other teams (Data Science, Product and UX) both in central teams and in Adevinta marketplaces to drive product development.

Additional Information

Adevinta is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status. If any of the above ticks your boxes, then why not Apply Now to find out more

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience).
• Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems; with real intellectual curiosity and adaptability.
• Ambitious and self-driven. Ability to dive in and understand deep technical problems.
• You're fluent in multiple development languages (static and dynamic), and willing to work mainly with Kotlin, or learn it if you are fluent in other JVM based language. Having Go as a secondary programming language would be nice.
• Experience working collaboratively with geographically distributed teams would be preferable. The team is distributed between Madrid and Barcelona and we have other teams in different countries of Europe, Africa and America.
• Good written, spoken and interpersonal communication skills. Technical and business level English is a must