The Knocker team runs the platform that is currently sending 620M+ notifications per week to millions of users. We work closely together with Product and Data specialists to design and develop top-of-the-line software products and provide the best experience to 10+ marketplaces. The notifications squad is looking for enthusiastic engineers who don’t shy away from big technical challenges to join our team and raise our game.

What you'll do: 

• Lead build state of the art systems that have real revenue-generating impact

• Design and implement highly scalable solutions using the best development practises and tools

• Further improve and evolve our current systems to guarantee business continuity.

• Continuously monitor the quality of our systems and design measurements to monitor their health (both the engineering systems and data integrity)

• Lead projects and initiatives that will have real impact on final users

• Keep on top of the latest and greatest development trends in distributed systems and the cloud

• Work closely with other teams (Stakeholders, Data Science, Product and UX) at Adevinta to drive product development

• Be curious: experiment with new solutions yet be pragmatic and committed to code optimisation, maintainability and quality

Additional Information

What you’ll get from us:

• Competitive compensation package

• Opportunity to shape the way we work. Your feedback and opinions are valued at all levels of the organisation

• Benefits including private health insurance, stock purchase plan and bonus

• Flexibility to work when and how you want - flexible hours, autonomy to set your own agenda, choice of phone and computer

• Smart Working Policy - work remotely some of the time, balanced with time in the office together with your team - between 5 and 45 days per quarter in the office

• "Work from anywhere" weeks - up to four weeks working from anywhere, including from another country, as long as you have an internet connection!

• Career development, including individual training budget and language classes

• Flexible benefits programme (transport, restaurants, child-care, etc)

• Free daily breakfast

• 26 days of holiday

Additional information

Adevinta is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status. 

Flexibility: We believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. So we provide flexible hours and remote working options that give you the autonomy and scope to set your own agenda and working patterns. We empower our teams to decide which key moments they want to spend face to face, instead of mandating a fixed number of office days.

Covid-19: We’re reviewing the situation on a regular basis to ensure that we follow all local government guidelines and put the health of our people first. All interviews are currently taking place virtually.

If anything you’ve read above ticks your boxes, then why not apply now to find out more!

Who you are: ​​​​

• A creative person who can help us raise the bar, challenge our current setup and improve our solution – you love developing good quality software

• You use your voice to provide feedback in a respectful way. Good written and spoken communication skills; technical and business level English is a must

• A lead by nature who knows psychological safety is paramount in a team. You understand the nature of collaborative software development and love coaching, mentoring or simply sharing knowledge with others.

• Experience with development best practises: Pair programming, code review, clean code, CI/CD preferably with experience in Travis and Spinnaker 

• Someone who understands quality should come by design and consistently writes Automated Tests (JUnit, Testcontainers, etc.)

• Familiar with REST APIs, and Microservices architecture

• Experience with or has the desire to learn Kotlin - it’s the main programming language we use, but any other JVM language is also acceptable

• Experience building and maintaining high traffic distributed systems systems at scale: service discovery, load balancing, secret management, dynamic request routing, circuit breakers and deployment schemes (rolling updates, canary, etc.)

• Experience with cloud infrastructure is a plus: AWS EC2, CloudFormation, Kubernetes