Senior Software Engineer - GenAI (Kotlin / Python)
Lisbon, Portugal
OLX – Engineering /
Full-time /
Remote
WELCOME TO OLX
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, Otomoto, Property24.
Join OLX and see how far you can go.
This role will be based in Portugal and you need to be residing in the country already.
JOIN OLX GENERATIVE AI ENGINEERING TEAM
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join a newly formed Generative AI (GenAI) team, which is aiming to provide a major boost to our customers’ experiences. We see a myriad of opportunities to apply GenAI to our products, in enhancing user-facing applications (e.g. assisting in making posting an advert easier and improving discoverability through search relevance), further improving safety for customers with more advanced moderation techniques, and improving internal operations such as customer support.
As an engineer in our team, you'll be collaborating closely with colleague engineers and SREs, the product team, data scientists, and an engineering manager while building one of the newest distributed systems we have in the company. Our systems are built with Python, Kotlin, or Golang and they run on AWS.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute technically to projects and take part in the planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects
- Be part of a team and establish credibility with the quality of your own and your team’s technical execution
- Encourage the team to innovate, invent, implement, and deploy complex software solutions
- Ask questions, brainstorm, and own the product we are building
- Work closely with the product management team to ensure we’re building the best products for our users
Requirements:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field;
- 5+ years of professional experience in software development with Python or Kotlin/Java; PHP is a plus
- Passion for architecting, building, and scaling cloud-based systems, serving millions of users
- Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks
- Experience in architecting AWS-based solutions
- Worked in multi-functional teams
- Believe in self-aligned teams and "you build it, you run it" philosophy
- Experience in building AI/ML-enabled products is a plus
What we'll give you:
- Competitive salary depending on seniority
- Annual bonus of up to 15% of your annual salary
- Excellent select-your-own benefits
- International career and travel opportunities
- Work with an international team of top engineers learning from one another
- Equipment you might need and a company mobile phone
- A budget for education, training, and conferences
At OLX, we unlock value in our people. 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 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.
We also unlock value for our stakeholders. We are proud of the positive contribution we make to our planet, by enabling more conscious consumption and helping the world make the most of its limited resources through more efficient trade.
And last but not least, we love to unlock value for our customers. Every single month, over 300 million people use our platforms to easily, safely, and conveniently find their perfect home, buy or sell a car, find a great job, sell things they no longer need, or strike a great deal on something they need. We help thousands of entrepreneurs and businesses find their customers too.
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.
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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