SOFTWARE ENGINEER (Backend)

Schibsted, Barcelona

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Duration: Full-Time

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Schibsted Marketplaces empower the world’s economy and promote sustainability by enabling anyone to sell and everyone to buy, connecting people to new opportunities and great deals every day. Our goal is to provide fantastic value to all of our 30 million daily users across 22 countries, with effective and safe online classified ads, creating perfect matches on the world's most trusted marketplaces.

Platform Services

Platform Services provides a common platform and tooling to Schibsted, as well as providing a central point for guidance on technical matters. Our systems are global-scale deployments of different services such as developer productivity tools, image and message processing systems, active and passive security scanning, big data and Map Reduce clusters, messaging brokers, databases and NoSQL backends and more. We support hundreds of services and hundreds of instances for our millions of consumers, using service discovery systems, autoscaling, dynamic load balancing and routing.

Scientists and engineers in our data teams work to make hundreds of millions of user behaviour events from all around the world understandable for analysts and business users in the company, daily. This large data set is also one of the most diverse data sets in the world and we work with the latest data technologies (Spark, AWS services, Kafka). Tens of thousands of tasks are ran every day to handle data processing jobs at this scale.

Platform Services also centrally develops and supports delivery pipelines, build systems, metrics and monitoring systems, support more than a thousand developers and develop dozens of developer productivity utilities to have our developers code more with less hassle. At all times our engineers are just a git clone away from real code and our teams are active contributors to several public OSS projects.

Responsibilities

Engineer and implement highly scalable systems, using the best development practices and tools
Help define our development environment, and communicate the best development practices within the organisation (i.e. code reviews, testing, etc)
Continuously monitor the quality of our systems, design measurements to monitor their health (both the engineering systems and data quality)
Keep on top of the latest and greatest developments in the distributed systems, the cloud, and data science fields
Make sure any tech solution that you put in place is scalable, robust and resilient.
Troubleshoot production systems when things go wrong

Requirements

A BSc (or equivalent) degree in Computer Science
Strong analytical / problem solving skills
A strong UNIX background (including concepts such as Namespaces, Capabilities, and TCP/IP )
Proven ability and experience developing highly structured computer programs (C/C++, Golang, Java or equivalent)
The ability to write scripts on dynamic languages to automate tasks and diagnose problems (Python or equivalent)
Experience in building and maintaining systems at scale: service discovery, load balancing, secret management, dynamic request routing, circuit breakers and deployment schemes (rolling updates, canary, etc.)
Experience with modern development and systems tools like Git, Travis, CloudFormation or similar
Excellent communication skills, verbal and written

Desirable

Strong understanding of application transport
In-depth knowledge of networking protocols
Experience with Docker, AWS, GCE and similar technologies

About Schibsted

About us SHAPING THE MEDIA OF TOMORROW. TODAY. Schibsted is an international media group with 7,300 employees in 22 countries.Our strategy to become a global leader within our fields is bold. It consists of three elements that work seamlessly together: Classifieds, Growth and Media Houses. We aim to be a global leader in online classified marketplaces and offer the best solutions and services for our users. We invest in great entrepreneurs and help scale their businesses locally and internationally by leveraging the Schibsted ecosystem. We are building world class digital media houses that will shape the media landscape for years to come. Schibsted Media Group has a global reach with both global challenges and global opportunities. We are constantly looking for great talents to help us challenge the present: Developers in Paris, UX-designers in Stockholm, sales people in Sao Paulo and key account managers in Madrid. Why don't you check out the opportunities we are currently offering? We want to hear from you!