Principal Platform Engineer, Adevinta
+ Participation in our Short-Term Incentive plan (annual bonus)
2-5 days a week in office (Charlottenburg, Berlin)
Digital marketplace specialist & family of local digital brands
Open for applications
Digital marketplace specialist & family of local digital brands
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Participation in our Short-Term Incentive plan (annual bonus)
2-5 days a week in office (Charlottenburg, Berlin)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create perfect matches that help everyone and everything find a new purpose through technology, talent and trusted brands.
Role
Who you are
- Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with the ability to align and collaborate across teams
- At least 10 years of industry experience
- Expertise in at least one JVM programming language and knowledge of Spring or React. Knowledge of Golang and JavaScript is beneficial
- In-depth experience with modern software architecture approaches and patterns
- Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS preferred), Kubernetes, and infrastructure tools (e.g., Terraform, Helm)
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, relational and document-oriented databases, and messaging systems
- Proven experience in implementing observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Loki) for monitoring and reliability
- A proactive, independent, strategic, and collaborative attitude is required to be successful in this role
- Fluent in English; German is a bonus
What the job involves
- For our team in Berlin, we are looking for a Principal Platform Engineer (d/f/m). Our agile team is focused on the core services and capabilities of our platform. If you’re passionate about automotive and user-driven innovation, this is the team for you!
- Reporting directly to your Engineering Manager, you will play an important role in the development and architecture of mobile.de's central applications and capabilities and act at the level of the entire engineering organization
- Define and lead the technical vision for core services and shared capabilities used across Product & Technology
- Lead complex projects that enhance the scalability, reliability, and maintainability of our technical landscape
- Collaborate with other principal engineers and platform architects to ensure agreement on technical and organizational strategies
- Mentor and coach engineers and tech leads, promoting skill development
- Implement and monitor engineering metrics
- Build relationships across teams to align technical solutions with our goals and organizational priorities
- Be an expert and technical leader, influencing engineering culture and shaping our technology direction
- Design and oversee implementation of critical systems to ensure long-term value
- Plan and implement technical and architectural strategies for the engineering organisation
- Create Architecture Decision Records, communicate the decisions and monitor the execution
- Promote cloud-native solutions that meet cross-team needs
- Promote engineering excellence through coding standards, testing techniques, and CI/CD (GitHubActions, Jenkins)
- Partner with platform architects to ensure central services integrate with platform infrastructure
- Represent the Core Services team in organization-wide discussions, balancing immediate needs with strategic goals
Our take
Adevinta Spain is part of the global Adevinta family, which is publicly listed in its native Norway. The company as a whole is one of the world’s largest classified marketplace companies, boasting a portfolio of around 50 brands in over a dozen countries, and employing close to 10,000 people.
The Spanish arm owns a number of the country's top digital classifieds marketplaces including Fotocasa, InfoJobs, and Milanuncios. At a time when larger companies are acquiring scores of eCommerce startups – a concept dubbed “eCommerce rollups” – it’s really interesting that Adevinta seems to have made quite the head start.
Indeed the fact that Adevinta isn’t going after D2C brands, but the marketplaces themselves, is clever. Considering that well over $2 trillion is spent annually on online marketplaces, Adevinta Spain (as well as Adevinta as a whole) is operating from a position of strength in an extremely lucrative market, especially since a buyout by Blackstone and Permira in November 2023 was initiated. This will further bolster Adevinta's position as a market leader under strong new ownerhsip.
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Company benefits
- Our work model prioritises remote work combined with face-to-face dynamics in the office that help us connect and make strategic decisions as a team. There are a minimum of 5 face-to-face days per quarter that you will pick with your team, that is, a minimum of 20 days a year, of which there are 8 days that we have chosen for everyone because they are meetings that reinforce our culture as a company (development conversations with managers, the creation of objectives or the summer celebration and Christmas party).
- Furthermore, you have the option of working up to four weeks a year from wherever you'd like. To do this, you must have a good internet connection and be able to follow the team's schedules.
- Every year we engage into benchmarking against the external market in order to create competitive compensation packages. Moreover, we do have plans that allow you to "flex your gross salary" in order to purchase benefits such as meal vouchers, commuters card, training and child care.
- We have Apple, Dell and Samsung options to choose the hardware that helps you most in your daily life. Choose between a Macbook Pro or Dell XPS laptop and an iPhone XR or Samsung S9 phone.
- Do you travel by car or motorcycle? We subsidize part of the parking cost.
- Your well-being is our priority. We cover fully for your medical insurance and we allow family members to be added to the policy for a discounted price.
- At the Barcelona office, you can enjoy sessions of 1 hour of physiotherapy.
- Do you like going to the gym? We sponsor 70% of the monthly fee of your chosen centre/ studio and we have agreements with both Andjoy and McFit for discounted membership prices.
- We enjoy 23 days of paid-time-off a year.
- We offer free breakfast and drinks at our Barcelona office every day of the week. You can also choose to enjoy the freshmade set daily menu in our canteen for an economical price. In Madrid on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays you can enjoy free breakfast.
Company values
- Act For Max Impact
- Use Your Voice
- Grow Through Different Perspectives
- Win And Lose Together
- Experiment Bravely
Company HQ
Barcelona, Spain
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Leadership
Antoine Jouteau
(CEO (Not Founder))Previosuly Senior Advisor at FAMAE Impact, Investor at Voie 21, CEO at Leboncoin and Member of the Advisory Board at Orchestra-Prémaman.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Adevinta
- Women in Leadership: Our global year-long accelerated development programme designed to get more women ready to succeed in leadership roles.
- The Change Makers: A peer-led grassroots group with a mission to create a workplace where differences are embraced and every single person feels like they belong. They run workshops and initiatives on topics such as unconscious bias, allyship and privilege tailored for Adevintans.
- LGBTQ+ community: Formed in early 2020 with the aim of providing a space for LGBTQ+ colleagues and allies to connect and share their experiences.
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