Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join OLX's Generative AI Innovation Engineering team in Spain as a Senior Backend Engineer. This role involves developing cutting-edge AI solutions to enhance user experiences and optimize internal processes. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, contribute to research and production-ready applications, and work on scalable, high-impact projects. The ideal candidate possesses significant software development experience, particularly with Python or Kotlin, and experience with large-scale web applications and cloud-native solutions. Mentoring junior engineers and driving innovation are also key aspects of this position. OLX offers a competitive salary, annual bonus, remote work options, and various benefits.

Requirements

• Have significant professional experience in software development with Python (preferred) or Kotlin
• Have experience in large-scale web applications, an economic-thinking mindset, and the ability to design well-bounded domain systems
• Have experience in architecting Cloud Native solutions
• Have worked in multi-functional teams
• Believe in "you build it, you run it, you own it," ensuring high-quality code, debugging, optimization, and automation as key priorities
• Have experience in building AI/ML-enabled products

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, execution, monitoring, and completion of projects, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to quality standards
• Contribute to complex technical projects, ensuring robust, secure, and scalable software solutions
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment. This includes delegating tasks, providing feedback, and facilitating team communication
• Drive innovation by encouraging new ideas, shaping software development, and collaborating closely with product management to create user-centric solutions
• Develop and deploy cloud-native solutions using GitLab CI/CD to AWS, contributing to broader engineering strategy and cross-team collaboration
• Create impact outside of your team by helping drive the Engineering strategy and contributing to cross-team collaboration through inter-team working groups or community guilds, between others

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with AWS

Benefits

• Competitive salary and an annual bonus (15%)
• Training and conference budget and free access to Udemy courses
• 100% remote work (as well as the possibility of working from our office in Barcelona)
• Newest equipment to make your work easier
• Health & dental insurance, gym membership, and language courses (Spanish and English), and much more to make your life easier