Senior Backend Engineer

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>We are an equal opportunities employer and place where everyone is welcome. We strongly encourage people from minority backgrounds, LGBTQIA+, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply. If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.</p><p>In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).</p><p>We’re one of the world’s largest privately owned real estate tech companies and a subsidiary of Axel Springer. Our mission is to unlock everyone’s perfect place!  Some of Europe’s best known digital real estate marketplaces and brands form part of our Group, they are: 🇫🇷 Meilleurs Agents, 🇫🇷 Groupe SeLoger, 🇧🇪 Immoweb, 🇩🇪 Immowelt, 🇪🇸 Housell and 🇮🇱 Yad2.</p><p>We also invest in innovative business models which shape the future of how people buy, sell, rent or lend properties and hold minority participations in companies such as: 🇬🇧 PurpleBricks, 🇩🇪 Homeday, 🇺🇸 Zumper and 🇺🇸 Parcel.</p><p><strong>Our ambition is to be the leading Employer in PropTech across Europe and this is a pivotal time to join us as we embark on this journey enabling us to help unlock everyone’s perfect place!</strong></p><h3>Job Description</h3><p><strong>WHAT WE DO AT MARKETPLACE DESIGN</strong></p><p>As the place where all real estate actors gather (home seekers, owners, intermediaries, etc…), the marketplace’s primary success factor is to provide the highest standards in terms of safety, truthfulness, relevance, efficiency and quality of the interactions between each of these actors. Many factors have an impact on the quality of the marketplace experience, the most prevalent is the users quality, seriousness, and engagement of the marketplace themselves, and the content and information (sale / rent listings, buyers projects descriptions, agencies presentations …) they produce by the means of this use. </p><p>The Marketplace Design teams’ role is about designing and developing all curation, penalty/reward, gamification, rating, scoring, and matching mechanisms that ensure the engagement of our users is constantly pushed up, and the quality of our content is constantly improving. That’s what we call Marketplace Dynamics.</p><p>As all of these capabilities are heavily data-powered, the Marketplace Design teams are also responsible for Data Governance, Modeling, Quality and the Data Platform and key Data-sets management for all of AVIV. We call that Data Operations.</p><p>The composition and roles of Marketplace Dynamics</p><p>Together the teams make up around twenty people for now, including:</p><ul><li><p>An Agile Coach</p></li><li><p>Data &amp; Backend Engineers</p></li><li><p>Data Scientists &amp; Analysts</p></li><li><p>Devops Engineers</p></li><li><p>Enterprise &amp; Solution Architects</p></li><li><p>Product Managers</p></li><li><p>QA Engineers</p></li></ul><p><strong>Your Responsibilities</strong></p><p>As a Senior Backend Engineer for Marketplace Dynamics, and working closely with all the members of your team, you create, adapt, and enhance the core capabilities of the marketplace (actor scoring, matching algorithms, classifieds quality, fraud &amp; infringement detection, ...), and make them accessible across Aviv on all brands and all channels (web, mobile, email, ...), through APIs, libraries/SDKs, or event buses.</p><p>As a senior team member, you create, improve and enhance the technical data stack, and help your fellow engineers to improve their skills.</p><p>Here are some examples of projects that you will work on</p><ul><li><p>Smart lead attribution and optimization</p></li><li><p>Improvement of actors behaviours : response rate, response speed, engagement, …</p></li><li><p>Classifieds recommendation engine</p></li><li><p>Classifieds smart sort order</p></li><li><p>Classifieds deduplication</p></li><li><p>Improvement of new classifieds alerts by avoiding wrong republication</p></li><li><p>Classified quality improvement (location, description, category, price, …)</p></li><li><p>Fake classifieds detection and anti abuse mechanics</p></li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><p><strong>WE ARE LOOKING FOR AN INDIVIDUAL WHO CAN:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Help increase the output of the team and the neighbouring teams it influences. You care about your team and the teams around you.</p></li><li><p>Drive technical excellence inside the company, by applying shared gold standards and staying up to date on trends and technology evolution.</p></li><li><p>Ensure close collaboration between product and tech. This starts with you and the product managers in your team. </p></li><li><p>Focus themselves and the team on outcomes rather than activity. Avoid busy work by aggressively prioritising what your team is working on.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimising data del