WELCOME TO OLX
We're building marketplace sustainable ecosystems that millions of people depend on every month – to buy and sell cars, find homes, land jobs, and trade secondhand goods. It's commerce that matters: safe, smart, and environmentally responsible.
We do this with courage to innovate, commitment to outcomes, collaboration across 50+ nationalities and 7 markets, and a customer-led approach that puts real people first. Add a desire to win – and you get a culture that's ambitious, fast-moving, and built on trust.
Our brands – including AutoTrader, OLX, Otomoto, Property24, and more – are loved by millions. And we're backed by Prosus, one of the world's largest tech investors.
Join OLX and see how far you can go.
We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer!
Join our GenAI Engineering team working remotely from Spain.
Are you someone who is craving scalable problems and dealing with optimizations? You will work with a creative, critical and a well-organized team from the comfort of your house, but as close as we have ever been!
You will play a key role in enabling our organisation to scale efficiently.
Who we are looking for:
Big picture thinking. Able to align technical decisions with the organizational strategy and take ownership of technical direction while influencing without direct authority.
Critical Thinker and Self-Starter. Identify what needs to be done to achieve unit goals and take initiative.
Effective Communicator. Explain complex technical concepts in English to diverse teams and influence decisions for greater impact.
Scalable Systems Expertise. Experience with large-scale web applications, an economic-thinking mindset and being able to design well-bounded future-proof domain systems, aligned with the business objectives.
You have strong Coding and Computer Science Fundamentals. On average, you will be expected to develop new ideas and review others’ work for ⅔ of the time.
Strong background experience in Golang, Java/Kotlin, or PHP (preferred technologies). Flexible and capable of adjusting to changing projects.
Skilled Technical Leader and Mentor: Guide and support engineers by setting a strong example. As a Staff Engineer, you are a role model, leading through your actions and expertise.
Deep Technical Expertise. Skilled in CI/CD, RESTful APIs, AWS, databases, and one or more of the following: high-performance scalable systems, monolith-to-microservices migration, or taxonomies.
What you will be doing:
Aligning Engineering with High-Value Problems. Work closely with product and engineering leadership to propose initiatives and drive impactful technical changes.
Collaborating across teams, guiding senior developers in managing and reducing technical debt.
Building and scaling Global Platforms. Develop and maintain products with billions of page views per month, ensuring scalability and performance.
Solving Complex Technical Challenges. Work with engineers across European offices to deliver solutions that impact millions of users.
Owning and Improving Development Processes. Participate in product design, write and review code, and advocate for quality, security, and performance with a DevOps mindset
Collaborating and learning with the OLX Engineering community.
Our hiring process:
Recruiter Interview
Head of Engineering Interview
Live Coding Interview
System Design Interview
Our benefits:
Permanent contract
Salary + annual bonus up to 20% of your annual gross salary
Work with and impact all OLX services in Europe
Train and conference budget and free access to Udemy courses
Health insurance and life insurance
MacBook Pro along with the necessary accessories to make your work comfortable
100% remote work (and the possibility to work from our offices in Barcelona)
