Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join OLX as a Frontend Engineer and work remotely from Portugal on a mixed tech stack within a microservices architecture on AWS. You will build scalable platforms used globally, solve technical challenges with European teams, and own the development process end-to-end. This role involves collaborating with designers, support, and other engineers, advocating for product quality, and mentoring other engineers. The ideal candidate possesses a critical mindset, strong communication skills, experience with large-scale web applications, and a passion for TDD. OLX offers a comprehensive benefits package including health and life insurance, food and transportation allowances, training opportunities, and an annual bonus.

Requirements

• Critical mindset. You will contribute to what needs to be done to achieve your pack goals
• Able to effectively communicate in English complex technical concepts to different disciplines (designers, support team, other engineers). You will have the opportunity to work with others and collaborate on technical decisions
• You have experience with large-scale web applications with an economic thinking mindset
• Demonstrated expertise working with one or more of the following: Front End Development
• Passionate about TDD, and you're not shy about it
• 3+ years of experience building JavaScript apps (knowledge of React and Redux is welcome)
• Experience with Front end Architectures and focus on performance (server-side and client-side)
• Used to work with CI/CD practices, RESTful APIs, and AWS

Responsibilities

• Build scalable platforms used by people around the globe while developing and maintaining products with billions of page views per month
• Solve technical challenges with engineers from other European offices, having a chance to accelerate your impact by delivering for millions of customers
• Own the development process end-to-end, participating in product design discussions, writing and reviewing code, assuring quality and the strategy for the development
• Advocate for product quality, security, and performance improvements that have a impact across your team and others
• Focus on delivery towards DevOps mentality contributing to the EU engineering community through our guilds
• Promote the discovery process by having access to the research panel
• Help shape OKRs alongside product managers
• Help our development team and operations assessment and resolving production issue
• Mentor other engineers and improve standards, tooling and processes

Benefits

• Opportunity to work with microservices architecture on Golang, React and Next.js . Prepare these to cope with all the traffic and scale we need to handle
• Possibility to be mentored by someone of your choice from the OLX community
• A healthy learning environment that takes your career at heart for both Individual Contributors or Managers
• We offer an Annual Bonus plus benefits like Health and Life insurance, Food Allowance, Transportation Allowance, English and Portuguese classes, and many other surprising treats
• Open selection of training e-courses including MyAcademy, Udemy, and specialist training like AWS