Senior Backend Developer

Job Description

We’re Adevinta, a global leader in digital marketplaces. Our household name brands, including Marktplaats in the Netherlands, mobile.de in Germany and leboncoin in France, reach hundreds of millions of people every month.   We’re all about matchmaking, and our sites help people find whatever they’re looking for in their local communities – whether it’s a car, an apartment, a sofa or a new job. Every connection made or item found makes a difference by creating a world where people share more and waste less.   Our brands are supported by global Tech Hubs in Barcelona, Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin. Their goal is to develop common global products and innovation platforms which all of our brands can use. This means using cutting edge technology to create highly scalable, customisable and secure products and components that free up development time and leverage our access to global data.   What you’ll do & Who you are   The Panda team aims to improve the performance of Classified Ads across all user types, verticals, and Adevinta marketplaces.   The main objectives are:

• Increase transactions/match-making for end-users
• Increase revenue for marketplaces by providing time-saving features
• Maximise re-use across Adevinta marketplaces

  Panda's products primarily help sellers:

• See how their ads are performing by providing statistics and visualisations
• Gain insights from their data to improve their performance through action-oriented recommendations
• Automate the management of the visibility of their ads on the marketplace

  What you will do :   As a Senior Backend Developer, you will work on a variety of projects, ranging from long-term projects, such as building tools around Kafka, to occasional reinforcement of teams on hot topics. You’ll have the opportunity to use your voice in the backend decision-making. Your coding skills will make a valuable contribution.   You will be part of a collaborative, informal, international, and playful working environment with self-organized, multi-disciplinary agile/lean teams   You will be working with modern technologies such as Golang, Apache Kafka, ScyllaDB, and more in a fast-evolving microservices architecture   You will keep up with the latest and greatest developments in distributed systems.   You will develop and maintain tools/frameworks to improve the overall developer experience, following high standards of quality, performance, resilience and scalability   Produce and maintain clear and efficient documentation   You will be an active contributor to the Communities of Practice  
Who you are:   We are looking for a creative person who can help us raise the bar, challenge our current setup and improve our solution.   You are a developer with at least 5 years of experience who knows Golang and loves to build quality software.   You are not afraid of designing complex algorithms that need to process tens of millions of objects, and you are familiar with elementary statistical methods.   You are comfortable with event sourcing and Apache Kafka   You are familiar with REST APIs and microservices architecture   You have a good understanding of what TDD methodology and clean architecture are in software development   You have a good knowledge of the Git ecosystem and docker   At least some experience in managing CI/CD workflows, and you know what a mono repo architecture is   You have good verbal and written communication skills in English   You are comfortable with autonomy and independence as well as with working with teammates   Benefits   Life at Adevinta comes with its perks! Our Adevintans enjoy the following benefits:

• An attractive Base Salary
• Participation in our Short Term Incentive plan (annual bonus)
• An excellent Equity program. This role plays a key part to the success of the organisation and therefore you will receive a piece of Adevinta every 6 months
• Employee Stock Purchase Program with a match from Adevinta
• Work From Anywhere: Enjoy up to 20 days a year of working from anywhere! Maybe not from the moon well why not! just make sure you have internet connection!
• A 24/7 Employee Assistance Program for you and your family, because we care ❤️
• Win together, lose together is one of our key behaviours. At Adevinta you will find a collaborative environment with an opportunity to explore your potential and grow

  On top of these, we also provide a range of locally relevant benefits. Wanna know more? Apply and ask our recruiters! ✨   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.

If you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role but are interested, please consider applying anyway. Research suggests that women and individuals from underrepresented groups may self-select out of opportunities if they don’t meet 100% of the job requirements. We strongly encourage people from historically excluded groups to apply and look forward to speaking with you.