Senior Backend Software Engineer

🕒 October 13, 2025

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OLX Group

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10,000+ employees

🛍️ eCommerce

🏪 Marketplace

👥 B2C

eCommerce • Marketplace • B2C

OLX is a marketplace platform that offers safe and easy-to-use trading services for consumers globally. With a focus on sustainability and community, OLX empowers individuals to connect and trade efficiently, making a positive difference in the world. Through various brands and a commitment to understanding customer needs, OLX fosters an innovative work environment that encourages teamwork and growth.

📋 Description

• Leading the planning, execution, monitoring, and completion of projects, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to quality standards. • Contributing to complex technical projects, ensuring robust, secure, and scalable software solutions. • Mentoring and guiding junior engineers, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment. This includes delegating tasks, providing feedback, and facilitating team communication. • Driving innovation by encouraging new ideas, shaping software development, and collaborating closely with product management to create user-centric solutions. • Developing and deploying cloud-native solutions using GitLab CI/CD to AWS, contributing to broader engineering strategy and cross-team collaboration. • Creating impact outside of your team by helping drive the Engineering strategy and contributing to cross-team collaboration through inter-team working groups or community guilds, among others.

🎯 Requirements

• A product-minded engineer who thinks from a user perspective, understanding both the how and why behind technical solutions • Someone with deep knowledge of programming languages, frameworks, and best practices, with strong mastery of data structures, algorithms, and software architecture to build and scale cloud-based systems. • A backend engineer with strong background experience in Golang, Java/Kotlin, or PHP (preferred technologies). Flexible and capable of adjusting to changing project requirements, roles, and backend technologies as needed. • A problem solver who can break down complex challenges into manageable solutions using both analytical thinking and creativity. • An effective communicator who can explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders while documenting technical specifications and processes clearly. • A developer who believes in "you build it, you run it, you own it," ensuring high-quality code, debugging, optimization, and automation as key priorities. • Someone with solid experience with relational and non-relational databases (MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached) and a strong understanding of AWS cloud architecture and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation). • A professional with experience in large-scale web applications, an economic--thinking mindset and being able to design well-bounded domain systems.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible benefits plan • 3 extra vacation days • Health Insurance (extendable to family) • Life Insurance • Remote or hybrid monthly allowance (incl. transportation supplement) • Meal Allowance • Urban Sports subscription (pack M) • English & Portuguese Classes • Marriage Bonus • New baby bonus • Discount website • Welcome pack