Staff Backend Engineer

Staff Backend Engineer

Remote Portugal, PortugalOLX – Engineering / Full-time / Remote WELCOME TO OLX At OLX, we work together to build a more sustainable world through trade. We make it safe, smart, and convenient to buy and sell cars, find housing, get jobs, buy and sell household goods, and more. Our colleagues around the world help to serve millions of people around the world every month, through its well-loved consumer brands including OLX, Otodom, Property24.Join OLX and see how far you can go. Join Our Team as a Staff Backend Engineer!  Join one of our cross-functional teams in Motors, Real Estate, OLX Classifieds, or Platforms, working remotely from Portugal. Are you someone who is craving scalable problems and dealing with optimizations?You'll work with a creative, critical, and 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.

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If you think this is the role for you, send your application in English and let’s talk!If you'd like to learn more about us, take a look around our careers page and the OLX Group website. Follow us on and check out our and.