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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.
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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. Now, we are looking for a Junior Software Engineer to help refine search result rankings to deliver the most relevant listings to users. By leveraging additional data inputs and advanced logic together with machine learning techniques, the team optimizes the final ordering of pre-selected ads from the search retrieval process.
Joining OLX as a Junior Software Engineer means collaborating closely with fellow engineers, SREs, the product team, Data Science team, and your engineering manager to improve relevance for seekers and incorporate into ranking logic elements that are important to the business. You will also have a dedicated buddy to help you onboard and grow.
Your day to day at OLX: Work on the active development of new features (Kotlin)All systems running on AWSStrong observability cultureLots of automation (GitLab pipelines)Engineers working on infrastructure-as-code alongside SREsConstantly improve your skills by attending internal and external workshops, as well as learning from your buddy and experienced team membersBe part of a backend community that actually cares about the product and good practicesA sane approach to short and long-term planningHealthy work/life balanceAbout you: You are curious about how things work and you have the "you build it, you run it, you own it" mentalityYou are interested in search, ranking, and machine learning algorithmsYou have first software development experience (ideally with Kotlin)You are familiar with relational databases as well as non-relational databases, e.g. MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, MemcachedYou can think from a user perspective — it's essential not only to know how to seek a technical problem but also to understand whyYou are a team player, experienced in cross-hub collaborations and discussions with various stakeholdersYou are excited about learning from more experienced folksIt's great if you previously worked with Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab, CI/CD, AWS, ScyllaDB, Solr or TerraformWhat we’ll give you:Monthly salary and an annual bonus (10%)Working with and impacting all OLX websites around the worldTraining and conference budget and free access to Udemy coursesA 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 ManagersFollowing that, there will be a technical check consisting of a live coding task and a System Design sessionFinally, we will provide feedback and, hopefully, extend an offerWhy 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
At OLX, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We strongly encourage people of all races, ethnicities, disabilities, ages, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, religions, backgrounds, and experiences to apply.
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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