Head of Engineering - Real Estate
Poland
OLX – Engineering /
Full-time /
Remote
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We’re looking for senior engineering leaders to take on the role of Head of Engineering for the OLX EU Real Estate team.
In this role, you can work fully remotely as long as you live in Poland.
Your day-to-day at OLX
Reporting to the Director of Engineering for OLX 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/continue 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, 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 low coupling/high cohesion practices in mind—use of tools to achieve the best outcome (build vs buy decisions). You must be familiar 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:
- Drive / Proactive personality and willingness to raise the bar.
- Result-orientation/pragmatism and high degree of personal accountability.
- Sense of strong leadership. Ability to inspire and motivate teams towards achieving a common goal.
- Capable of developing and implementing engineering strategies that optimize resources, improve efficiency, and foster innovation.
- Effective communication, by being able to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders in verbal and written form.
- Comfortable challenging the status quo and intellectually curious.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity, uncertainty, and continuous change.
- Manager of managers with experience in building and scaling engineering teams (20+ people), ideally across multiple locations or remotely;
- Tenured people manager, able to set clear expectations, provide regular feedback, and conduct performance reviews to support the growth and development of engineers.
- Negotiation skills, tenured in resolving conflicts and reaching agreements with various parties.
- Experienced overseeing the execution of product development and engineering projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
- Strong business acumen and experience in customer-facing platforms.
- Vast experience in building scalable products. Experience in high-scale migrations is highly welcome for this role—a deep understanding of building high-traffic, large-scale Internet applications.
- Strong technical background and a good understanding of current technology trends relevant to the company's domain.
- Experience with architectures that foster high cohesion/low coupling with reduced complexity in a cloud-based environment (AWS, using Kubernetes).
- Good understanding and ideally successful application of AI/ML.
- Experience in building an engineering culture in an agile, lean & DevOps environment.
- Good understanding of lean and agile principles, like Kanban, and Scrum.
- 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, 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 of the largest consumer internet groups in the world.
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