Engineering Manager, OLX Group
Generative Artificial Intelligence
+Annual bonus up to 20% of your annual salary
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Global online marketplace aggregator
Open for applications
Global online marketplace aggregator
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+Annual bonus up to 20% of your annual salary
More information about location
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
- Track record of proven people management experience (3+ years) focused on developing and growing people
- 5+ years of professional experience in software development, with a strong focus on Kotlin/Java or Python
- Proven experience in designing and developing large-scale, high-traffic systems
- Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Streaming architectures)
- Strong knowledge of data structures, and software design patterns
- Good understanding and ideally successful application of AI/ML
- Experience with modern software development practices, such as agile methodologies, continuous integration, and deployment
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Proficient in English, with strong verbal and written communication skills
What the job involves
- The person we are looking to hire will lead engineering efforts for our newly formed Generative AI (GenAI) team, which is aiming to provide a major boost to our customers’ experiences
- We see a myriad of opportunities to apply GenAI to our products, in enhancing user-facing applications (e.g. assisting in making posting an advert easier and improving discoverability through search relevance), further improving safety for customers with more advanced moderation techniques, and improving internal operations such as customer support
- As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a group of 5-6 engineers (back-end and mobile) sitting in the “Platform” organization, reporting to the Head of Engineering. This group of engineers will be teamed to deliver on two main areas: GenAI-enabled infrastructure and customer-facing solutions
- Together with your Product and Data Science counterparts and all your internal customers, you will figure out how we best create an internal GenAI back-end service that helps make it easy for teams to integrate GenAI in their domains, in a cost-effective way
- This may include a system for model routing, integrating with 3rd-parties such as AWS Bedrock, internal model building and/or fine-tuning, and the like
- Lead and manage a team of talented engineers, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and career development support
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data science and data engineering managers, and product managers to define project goals, scope, and deliverables
- Drive the end-to-end development process, from design to implementation and deployment, ensuring high-quality and scalable solutions (with controlled cost)
- Identify and prioritize technical initiatives, considering ROI, scalability, and performance requirements
- Implement modern software development practices, including agile methodologies, continuous integration, and deployment, to ensure efficient and effective project delivery
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements, ensuring that the platform meets customer needs and provides an exceptional user experience
- Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture, promoting knowledge sharing, innovation, and continuous improvement
Application process
- You can give your consent (optional) to allow us to store your data for up to 12 months after the application process. So that in case you are not fit for the role at stake we can consider you for other suitable roles
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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