Senior Backend DeveloperAsk any Dutch
internet user about their favourite Marktplaats story. Observe their
excitement about the great deal they found or the interesting people
they met. They have made Marktplaats the most popular site and the most
downloaded app made in the Netherlands.
We are an international team
(26 countries!) of passionate people who share a common interest in
solving problems using software and data. We invite you to join us. This
is a big responsibility; you will work on high-availability servers,
improve customer experience through innovation, impact revenues and
advance our team and technologies. In turn, we will work with you to
grow your career in Marktplaats and eBay.
Your growth will
involve our highly-performant and high-traffic systems. During peak
hours, our site's per-second throughput is OVER 1000 searches (which
makes us the second most-used search engine in NL), 25K images and 4GB
of data; Marktplaats handles over 1 million unique visitors, 350K new
advertisements and 155K transactions daily. On an average month, we get
140 million visits, which translates into 2.5 billion page views. But
our users demand more, so we are constantly changing our platform to
deliver the experience our customers love.
What you can expect from us: - A collaborative, informal, international and playful work environment with self-organised agile/lean teams
- Managers and teammates who are invested in your growth as a technologist and as a person
- Work
with cool modern technologies such as Scala, Hadoop, Apache Spark,
Elasticsearch, Apache Kafka, Consul, Node.js, React, Swift and Play
- Access
to tools and resources to do your job (best-in-class laptop, IDEs,
Safari Online subscription, conferences and meetups, all the coffee and
soda you can drink, and much more)
- Ability to join and
participate in multiple internal interest groups in Marktplaats and
across eBay Classifieds Group in trending topics like DevOps, BigData,
mobile development, and others
- Continuous Deployment through multiple environments to get rapid feedback about your work
- Work on one of the most beloved brands in the Netherlands
The
person we are looking for has extensive experience in on-line or
related areas, with at least 6+ years of full-time employment. We expect
the right person to be an expert in software engineering and have good
knowledge of what it means to work with large and/or distributed
systems. We also believe that to be a well-rounded developer, one needs
experience with more than just one programming language. Furthermore, we
need someone who lives and breathes Agile development, can focus on
delivering, and wants to take a leading role in improving how we work.
What we expect from you:- Java and Scala development
- Some exposure to mobile application development (iOS/Android/HTML5)
- Unix / Linux
- Test driven development
- Agile methodologies
- Affinity for e-Commerce
- A degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Building great products
Preferred Qualifications:- Native mobile application development (iOS/Android/Windows)
- Knowledge of alternative languages like Python
- Processing big data
Preferably you have a degree in Computer Sciences or comparable topic.
Background checks are part of the hiring process.
Acquisition is not appreciated.