Backend Engineer - Developer Experience (Marketplace experience)

Marktplaats; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Attractive Base Salary

Short Term Incentive plan (annual bonus)

Work From Anywhere (up to 20 days)

24/7 Employee Assistance Program

Collaborative environment

Job summary

A leading online classifieds platform is seeking a Backend Engineer to join their Buyer Journey & Advertising team in Amsterdam. You will focus on enhancing the buyer's experience and optimizing web pages for SEO. Ideal candidates have 6+ years of experience in software development with JVM languages, and a passion for Agile methodologies. Benefits include a competitive salary, flexible working options, and a collaborative work environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of full-time employment in software development on large and distributed systems.
• Experience with running large systems written in JVM languages.
• Knowledge of event-driven microservices architecture.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers and designers to understand project requirements.
• Design and implement scalable and maintainable software solutions.
• Mentor junior and mid-level developers.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Scala

Microservices architecture

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps practices

AWS

GCP

MySQL

Cassandra

REST APIs

Agile methodologies

Tools

Kafka

ElasticSearch

RabbitMQ

Terraform

Node.js

Job description

Backend Engineer - Buyer Journey and Advertising

Marktplaats in The Netherlands, and 2dehands and 2ememain in Belgium, are part of Adevinta: a global online classifieds specialist. The three brands are hosted on a multi-tenant platform, operated from our Amsterdam location, and are the top players in the classifieds space throughout the Benelux region.

We offer consumers the opportunity to trade their unwanted products and contribute to a greener, circular economy. We offer businesses - of all sizes, from the smallest hobbyist to the biggest brands in Benelux - a platform to showcase their goods and services online to over 11 million monthly unique users.

About The Team

You will join our multi-disciplinary Buyer Journey & Advertising team in Amsterdam as a back-end developer, reporting to the team's Engineering Manager. You will focus on the buyer's experience when they come to our platforms and optimize the pages of our website for SEO.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to understand project requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Design and implement scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code using industry best practices.
• Help to improve work in all areas: coding, processes, testing, tools, collaboration.
• Mentor junior and mid-level developers.

Who You Are

You have experience in software development in online areas, with a big codebase and a large user base. At least 6+ years of full-time employment on large and distributed systems. You like and breathe Agile development, focus on delivering, and like to take an active role in improving how we work.

Core Skills

• Experience running large systems written in JVM languages like Java, Kotlin or preferably Scala.
• Experience in event-driven microservices architecture.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Experience running services in cloud environments like AWS or GCP.
• Experience with relational databases (like MySQL) and NoSQL (like Cassandra).
• Familiarity with designing REST apis.
• Familiarity with Agile Methodologies.

Bonus Skills (nice-to-have)

• Experience with Kafka, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, and Terraform.
• Familiarity with observability tools.
• Experience with Node.js.

Benefits

Life at Adevinta comes with its perks! Our Adevintans enjoy the following benefits:

• An attractive Base Salary
• Participation in our Short Term Incentive plan (annual bonus)
• Work From Anywhere: Enjoy up to 20 days a year of working from anywhere!
• A 24/7 Employee Assistance Program for you and your family, because we care
• Win together, lose together is one of our key behaviours. At Adevinta you will find a collaborative environment with an opportunity to explore your potential and grow

Adevinta is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

If you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role but are interested, please consider applying anyway. Research suggests that women and individuals from underrepresented groups may self-select out of opportunities if they don’t meet 100% of the job requirements. We strongly encourage people from historically excluded groups to apply and look forward to speaking with you.