Senior Software Engineer (Golang) - Remote within Poland

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.

Note before applying: for this role, you can work remotely from anywhere in Poland or work from our office in Poznan or Warsaw.

At OLX we enable our customers to buy and sell anything from homes to phones. The person we are looking to hire will help to revamp our current way of managing the core engine of our classified apps and websites: adding, publishing, and modifying ads on our platforms. 

We are looking for Senior Software Engineers to join one of the OLX teams. During the recruitment process, we will discuss your experience and expectations to match you with the team where you will thrive. 

Joining OLX as a Senior Software Engineer means collaborating closely with colleague engineers and SREs, the product team, and an engineering manager while building one of the newest distributed systems we have in the company.

Our systems are built with Golang and they run on AWS.

About you:

• You are curious about how things work and you have the "you build it, you run it, you own it" mentality
• You have extensitve software development experience in any of the following technologies (Golang, Java, PHP, Python)
• You have a background working with relational databases as well as non-relational databases, e.g. MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached, and a good understanding of cloud architecture, ideally AWS, and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
• You are able to think from a user perspective — it's important not only to know how to seek a technical problem but also to understand why
• Strong team player, open to discussions and cross-hub collaborations
• Bonus points for experience with GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab, CI/CD
• You have to be based in Poland

Your responsibilities will include:

• Contribute technically to projects and take part in the planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects
• Be part of a team and establish credibility with the quality of your own and your team’s technical execution
• Encourage the team to innovate, invent, implement and deploy complex software solutions
• Ask questions, brainstorm and own the product we are building
• Work closely with the product management team to ensure we’re building the best products for our users

What we’ll give you:

• Monthly salary and an annual bonus (15%)
• Working with and impacting all OLX websites around the world
• Training and conference budget and free access to Udemy courses
• A benefits package with 300 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)

What you can expect from the recruitment process:

• The first step is a meeting with our Tech Recruiter: we are excited to get to know you and tell you more about OLX and the role
• Next, you'll meet one of our Engineering Managers
• Following that, there will be a technical check consisting of live coding task and System Design session
• Finally, we will provide feedback and, hopefully, extend an offer

Why join OLX? 

At OLX, we invest in ourselves and each other to reach our full potential. We avoid bureaucracy and empower our teams to innovate; with opportunities, training, and leadership behaviors a key focus for all. Our commitment to inclusion ensures we listen to a diverse range of voices when making decisions. And, we combine the spirit and agility of a startup with our global scale and the backing of Prosus, one of the largest consumer internet groups in the world.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at OLX

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If you are excited about this role, and your past experiences do not align perfectly with every criteria asked for in the job description, we would still like you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities across the business, and we'd like to hear from you.

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