Head of Engineering

**WELCOME TO OLX**

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**Join OLX and see how far you can go**.

We’re looking for senior engineering leaders to take on the role of **Head of Engineering** for OLX EU Real Estate team.
- In this role you can work remotely from anywhere in Portugal or from our Lisbon office._

**Your day-to-day at OLX**

Reporting to the Director of Engineering for OLX EU Real Estate, you will lead and support the engineering roles (20+) of the product teams responsible for building capabilities to allow our users to interact with our platforms and get the best user experience in the market.

You will have the responsibility to co-lead the product development teams together with the Head of Product, form a technology strategy and architecture vision, as well as the day-to-day delivery of your teams, supporting and enhancing the OLX engineering culture, growing the team and its capabilities and working with your peers to ensure business success, identifying shared capabilities and opportunities to improve.

You must partner closely with peers in Product and Design and Data, as we expect to influence our product direction and roadmap driven by technology trends and innovation. You work closely with other engineering leads and stakeholders, supporting the scale of many capabilities and products. You will be responsible for both large step-change product innovation and continued, high-velocity incremental feature development, helping deliver value to our customers that they happily pay for seamlessly.

Your experience should include strong leadership skills evidenced by an ability to inspire engineering teams through clear communication and technical excellence, following best practices, and strongly influencing architecture and system design with microservices and event-driven capabilities in mind—use of tools to achieve the best outcome (build vs buy decisions).

You must be current with current technologies and tools and feel comfortable making difficult technical decisions to improve major aspects of our solutions and the user experience. Our culture encourages collaboration, transparency, passion, innovation, and fun through continuous self-improvement, learning, and active sharing of feedback to improve performance.

You will move fast, define challenging objectives and key results progress monitoring, question norms when necessary, and address innovation at pace and scale. You will be comfortable with ambiguity and address challenges systematically and proactively to find solutions that increase customer value and happiness.

**Who we’re looking for**:

- Manager of managers with experience in building and scaling engineering teams (20+ people), ideally across multiple locations or remotely with vast experience in building scalable products
- Passion and experience in architecting, building, and scaling services, cloud-based systems serving millions of users
- Strong business acumen and experience in customer-facing platforms
- Strong technical background and a good understanding of current technology trends
- Experience with microservices architectures in a cloud-based environment (AWS, using Kubernetes and Docker, streaming architecture)
- Experience in building an engineering culture in an agile, lean & DevOps environment
- Good understanding of lean and agile principles
- Experience with continuous delivery focusing on fast release cycles while maintaining quality and measuring technical health: quality, customer-facing performance (WebCoreVitals), security standards, and actively managing technical debt

**What we can offer**:

- Fixed salary plus performance bonus
- Great perks as a baseline, including 100% remote working (if you wish), opportunity to go for courses and conferences, health insurance, meal allowance etc.
- Unique opportunity to become a part of an international team of top engineers learning from one another and contributing to the global OLX success
- Extraordinary place to learn and develop within fast growing, global classifieds leader which opens further career opportunities in diverse world of OLX and Prosus
- Work in a multicultural and international environment. We currently have 50+ nationalities

**Why 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 o