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.

What you’ll do ​& Who you are

Senior Engineering Manager

Mission:

As Senior Engineering Manager for Adevinta, your mission will be to develop high performing multidisciplinary teams that deliver value continuously and maximizes it in the long term, as well as to help engineers with their career development in order to achieve their maximum potential as fast as possible, while keeping their contribution at the highest level.

Part of your responsibilities will be planning and executing long term business and tech strategies, further you will be representing the technical area in a Business Cluster, acting as an influencer and change driver to each initiative.

Main responsibilities:

• You will be the line manager for 2 teams doing 1o1s, dev talks, performance reviews, hiring, holidays, onboardings and other personnel actions. All the engineers in your teams will be your reports.

• Your teams will be preferably inside the same cluster (cluster is a team agrupation sharing business goals).

• You will be autonomous to manage the cluster teams composition, aligned with the cluster team and the Engineering Director and other EMs when needed.

• Acting as a Servant Leader and using our SST framework you will make your teams to be high performant and reach high levels of autonomy and self-sufficiency  (solving conflicts, managing dependencies, achieving business goals, improving continuously, increasing performance, etc.)

• You will be accountable for the projects where your teams are involved even when the scope is broader than only tech and requires collaboration with other stakeholders. You will need to help with project coordination and provide guidance from the tech perspective, involving the right people at the right time, but not acting as tech expert or consultant to all technical aspects. In some projects that accountability would be shared with other key players, like EMs of other involved teams, Product Managers or Project Managers.

• Agile best practices fostering and adoption inside teams will be part of your accountability. 

• As Engineering Manager (EM) you may be a member of the cluster team, being responsible for aligning business needs with the tech strategy participating in OKRs and cluster roadmap discussions. 

• You will plan and execute long term strategies that benefit your team, cluster and Marketplace.

• You will have to balance with pragmatism the short term needs with long term sustainability of your teams' tech stacks aligned with Product needs (i.e. keep technical debt under control, ensuring that teams react on health metrics, etc). 

• You will foster a feedback culture based on Radical Candor creating a psychologically safe environment.

• As EM, you will shape and protect Adevinta's culture using day by day communications, team dynamics, sharing and asking for feedback and being a role model in our behaviors.

• You will not make deep technical decisions, we don’t expect you to be the strongest technician. Those decisions will be made by senior individual contributors instead, but you will need to be up to date with the industry technical standards.

Desired skills:

• People management: Assertiveness, empathy, fairness, honesty, humbleness and “win for team, fail for the manager” mindset.

• Extensive written and oral communication.

• Knowledge and experience working with Agile frameworks, lean startup, scrum, kanban, OKR, etc

• Leadership: influencer, change driver, people & org developer, strategic thinker

• Technical skills: Be familiar with the concepts of accelerate metrics and capabilities, testing, AWS, distributed systems, SOLID, java, kotlin, reactjs, microservices, kafka, etc.

Benefits

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) 🏆

• An excellent Equity program. This role plays a key part to the success of the organisation and therefore you will receive a piece of Adevinta every 6 months 🍕

• Employee Stock Purchase Program with a match from Adevinta 📈

• 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.