Staff Engineer

Summary

Join OLX's team as a Staff Backend Engineer and work remotely from Poland, contributing to scalable systems for global platforms. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, focusing on high-value problems and technical debt reduction. This role requires strong coding fundamentals, experience with large-scale web applications, and expertise in areas like CI/CD, RESTful APIs, and AWS. As a skilled technical leader, you will mentor engineers and drive impactful technical changes. OLX offers a competitive salary, annual bonus, training budget, benefits package, and 100% remote work option.

Requirements

• Big picture thinking. Able to align technical decisions with the organizational strategy and taking 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
• 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Monthly salary and an annual bonus - Tax deductible costs up to 80% of your salary
• Training and conference budget and free access to Udemy courses
• A benefits package with 500 points on the Mybenefit platform per month, private medical care provided by Luxmed, Ask Henry services, and much more
• 100% remote work (as well as the possibility of working from our offices in Poznan and Warsaw)