Staff Engineer, OLX Group
Tracking
Global online marketplace aggregator
Open for applications
Global online marketplace aggregator
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To shape the future of trade to unlock the hidden value in everything.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 7+ years of professional experience in software development with expertise in backend technologies (Python, Kotlin/Java, Go)
- Experience with RESTful APIs and integrating them into applications
- Strong understanding of software design, object orientation, architectural patterns, and delivery patterns
- Familiarity with the mobile ecosystem, the full mobile development life-cycle, common libraries, and languages
- Experience in testing automation (unit testing, end-to-end testing)
- Familiarity with CI/CD processes and cloud native solutions, AWS is a plus
- Passion for architecting, building, and scaling distributed systems
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a collaborative team environment
- Belief in self-aligned teams and the "you build it, you run it" philosophy
- Experience with metadata management and product analytics tools
- Strong analytical skills to identify and resolve tracking inconsistencies and enhance data accuracy
What the job involves
- A Staff Engineer position is available in the Data Engineering team, Data Platform
- Reporting to the Head of Data Engineering, you will be able to rethink and re-architect the Tracking framework of OLX with the objective of increasing its accuracy
- You will work alongside a team of data engineers, software engineers and a PM dedicated to Tracking
- Understand the general architecture of our web platforms for all countries / businesses (OLX, Real Estate, Motors) and identify the pain points where tracking may be different or difficult to transmit information between a certain codebase to another
- Design an implementation framework that will match the technical reality of all CUs and propose solutions to all pain points identified that will positively impact our efficiency in measuring accurately our user behaviour. You’ll have the support of our chief data officer as well as engineering managers
- Ideally, the framework should be designed to push metadata from the code to our Data Catalog solution (instead of doing manual work on event/properties creation)
- With the help of product analytics & data service teams, you’ll help in coordinating potential implementation changes required to make tracking accuracy better (change event types in the code, fix implementation mistakes, wrong properties values, transmission of information cross codebase):
- Additionally, you’ll have the opportunity to audit the implementation of GA4 and provide guidance on leveraging value to this tool
Our take
OLX group started as an alternative to Craigslist outside the US and has since ridden the wave of classifieds, e-commerce and marketplaces to become one the most prominent web platforms in the world.
Over 300 million people use an OLX group website every month. The company has managed to reach this level primarily through the acquisition and integration of emerging marketplaces that typically delight customers with their easy-use and quality range.
The company is now deepening its M&A strategy by integrating further marketplaces and inventories on behalf of its largest platforms, like OLX Autos. The business has already done $1B of revenue since operation.
While some brands have been flying high, others like the Russian-based Avito have become liabilities. Navigating these fluctuations in the fortunes of its ever growing portfolio of brands will continue to pose the biggest challenge for the group.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2009
$5m
SERIES C
Apr 2008
$13.5m
SERIES B
Total funding: $28.5m
Company HQ
Zuidas, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Leadership
Romain Voog
(CEO, not founder)Senior VP Worldwide Geographies at Airbnb after leaving Amazon as President of Amazon France. Before that, was promoted to Managing Director of CarrefourOnline. Originally trained as a consultant with Bain and then BCG.
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