Front End Software Engineer

We’re Adevinta, a global leader in digital marketplaces. Our household name brands, including Marktplaats in the Netherlands, mobile.de in Germany and leboncoin in France, reach hundreds of millions of people every month. 

We’re all about matchmaking, and our sites help people find whatever they’re looking for in their local communities – whether it’s a car, an apartment, a sofa or a new job. Every connection made or item found makes a difference by creating a world where people share more and waste less. 

Our brands are supported by global Tech Hubs in Barcelona, Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin. Their goal is to develop common global products and innovation platforms which all of our brands can use. This means using cutting edge technology to create highly scalable, customisable and secure products and components that free up development time and leverage our access to global data.

Kleinanzeigen is the most-visited general classifieds site in Germany and is still growing at an amazing speed. We have over 50 million items for sale on our platform, and with more than 35 million unique users every month, we reach about 50% of the German internet population. Are you passionate about joining a purpose-driven community that is dedicated to building an ambitious and diverse work environment? Join Kleinanzeigen!

We seek a professional individual to join our team as a Frontend Engineer (d/f/m). In this role, you will be responsible for developing services for our mobility and motors domain to improve in verticalizing and upleveling the services we offer

to our users. You will be part of a cross-functional team including members from the areas of Product, User Experience, Analytics, and Engineering with the mission "to become the most convenient, fair and trusted digital market for second hand vehicles in DE”.  

What you’ll do

• Work together with your multidiscipline team to develop a better search experience for our buyers, better ad management for our sellers, and bring new services to them

• Keep the platform’s architecture clean, stable, and scalable

• Handle up to 60k requests per second while the platform is still growing

• Drive your ideas for code, process, and product improvements

• Ensure quality and maintainability by improving build and test systems

• Bring in your perspective of how our users’ problems can be solved

Who You Are

• You are fluent in HTML5, CSS3, and TypeScript

• You have 4+ years of experience working with React or Next.js projects - you would call yourself an expert

• You have 4+ years of experience with testing frameworks such as Jest, React Testing Library, and Cypress, and you understand why testing matters

• Experience with responsive design principles and cross-browser compatibility

• You know how to read and work with existing codebases

• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.

• You always aim to bring the best UX possible to our customers

• You have a speak up mentality and point out things that are not right in your opinion.

Life at Adevinta comes with its perks! Our Adevintans enjoy the following benefits:

• An attractive Base Salary 💸

• Participation in our Short Term Incentive plan (annual bonus) 🏆

• Work From Anywhere: Enjoy up to 20 days a year of working from anywhere! Maybe not from the moon🌛well why not! just make sure you have internet connection! 🌍

• A 24/7 Employee Assistance Program for you and your family, because we care ❤️

• Win together, lose together is one of our key behaviours. At Adevinta you will find a collaborative environment with an opportunity to explore your potential and grow 🌱

On top of these, we also provide a range of locally relevant benefits. Wanna know more? Apply and ask our recruiters! ✨

Adevinta is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.
If you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role but are interested, please consider applying anyway. Research suggests that women and individuals from underrepresented groups may self-select out of opportunities if they don’t meet 100% of the job requirements. We strongly encourage people from historically excluded groups to apply and look forward to speaking with you.