Staff Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join OLX as a Remote Staff Frontend Engineer and contribute to building scalable platforms impacting millions of users globally. You will work on a Next.js, React, and Typescript-based frontend monolith within a microservices architecture. Responsibilities include building and maintaining platforms, tackling technical challenges, owning the development process, advocating for product quality, embracing DevOps, contributing to the engineering community, shaping team objectives, supporting development teams, mentoring fellow engineers, and fostering a feedback culture. The role requires a critical mindset, strong communication skills, experience with large-scale web applications, expertise in frontend technologies, passion for TDD/BDD, and experience with React, Next.js, CI/CD, RESTful APIs, and AWS. The company offers an annual bonus, excellent benefits, opportunities to work with a top international team, and necessary equipment.

Requirements

• Critical mindset and autonomy. You will be contributing to identifying what needs to be done to achieve our unit goals
• Able to effectively communicate in English complex technical concepts to different disciplines (designers, support team, other engineers). You will have a higher impact by influencing others to follow your technical decisions than if you try to do everything yourself
• You have experience with large scale web applications with an economic thinking mindset
• Demonstrated expertise working with Front End technologies
• Passionate about TDD/BDD, and you're not shy about it
• Experience building Javascript apps using React and Next.js
• Good understanding of 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 and maintain scalable platforms by developing products with billions of page views per month, impacting users globally
• Tackle technical challenges in collaboration with engineers across European offices to solve intricate issues, amplifying your impact for millions of customers
• Own the development process end-to-end by engaging in product design discussions, writing and reviewing code, and ensuring quality and strategic alignment throughout
• Advocate for product quality, security, and performance enhancements that significantly impact your team and cross-functional teams
• Embrace a DevOps mentality with a focus on seamless delivery by integrating development and operations practices
• Contribute to our European engineering community by participating actively in our guilds and decision-making processes
• Shape team objectives by collaborating with product managers to define and achieve team OKRs
• Support and unblock development and operations teams in triaging and resolving production issues
• Be a mentor and role model by guiding and mentoring fellow engineers, elevating standards, tools, processes, and fostering a positive culture
• Foster a feedback culture where seeking, receiving, and giving feedback is a shared and valued practice

Preferred Qualifications

• You're tech-savvy, active in open source communities to find the latest solutions in the market
• Experience in technical coaching and mentorship, as well as technical leadership. As a Staff Engineer, other Engineers will look up to you, and you should be able to lead by example

Benefits

• Annual bonus of up to 15% of your annual salary
• Excellent select-your-own benefits
• Work with an international team of top engineers learning from one another
• Any equipment you might need