Staff Engineer

**As a Staff Engineer in the Payment stream**, you'll be focused on helping OLX on its exciting journey of fully scaling transactional capabilities across all our Markets, working across multiple tribes to help build our next generation of payment and monetization capabilities. The main challenges for this role are setting a good architecture foundation to unify all exciting payment capabilities, reduce the complexity of existing components and help setting the right direction for the Technical design to allow easy discovery and experimentation.

**What you will be doing**:

- Hands-on development of proof of concepts and evaluation of new technologies
- Implement technical strategic decisions in cross functional teams and lead initiatives to improve our development process and business opportunities within their domain
- Provide technical guidance to developers in the domain and raise the bar for coding standards, software design and delivery process.
- Influence and help set tribe-wide vision, direction, and product improvement goals
- Align work across multiple teams to maximise the impact for the company.

**Who we're looking for**:

- A clear expert and highly skilled in one or more technical or business domains.
- Thinking_:

- Promotes collaboration and communication between teams while reducing the coordination cost between teams and their dependencies
- Acts as a multiplier by facilitating cross-learning tribe work, by shaping broad architecture or shipping major pieces / infrastructure / tools
- Approach_:

- Proactively identifies tribe-level opportunities and issues, proposes and executes appropriate solutions to resolve them
- Sets medium-term technical direction for the tribe / team in collaboration with their peers and leaders to focus on areas that need attention or improvement
- Mentoring/Support_:

- Highly sought after and well-regarded mentor/coach for all levels
- Actively sought out by others for advice, and actively seeks out others who would most benefit from help
- Listens and guides debates to help reach a decision then clearly communicates it widely
- Culture_:

- Actively contributes to and takes initiatives to make their tribe a great place to work
- Builds a culture where product reliability, observability and scalability are part of building any new and contributing to existing systems
- Regularity thinks about their tribe's practices / processes and works with the team to improve them. Also collaborates with others to improve organisational practices and processes.
- Advocacy_:

- Represent OLX in local meet-ups national and international conferences by speaking or other arrangements

**What we'll give you**:

- A competitive salary with a performance bonus up to 20% of your annual salary.
- Unique opportunity to become a part of an international team of top engineers learning from one another and contributing to the global OLX Group success.
- Working with and impacting all Classifieds websites in Europe, collaborating with European and other International Hubs.
- 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.
- Great perks as a baseline, including 100% remote working (if you wish), opportunity to go for courses and conferences, among others.

**What you need to know about us**:

- OLX Group is a global product and tech company with 20 brands, 10.000+ people and one mindset.
- Our mission is to help people upgrade their lives. We make it super easy for people to buy and sell almost anything, boosting local economies.
- Over 300 hundred million users buy and sell on our platforms each month, generating a $1.3 billion revenue and a +37% revenue growth.
- We are curious, ambitious and allergic to corporate interference We improvise, experiment and push each other further, accepting uncertainty and motivating change.

We are part of Prosus, a global internet group and one of the largest technology investors in the world Around a fifth of the world's population improve their daily lives using the products and services of companies that Prosus operates and invests in.

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