Backend Engineer

Adevinta

Adevinta

Software Engineering
Barcelona, Spain
Posted on Sep 12, 2025

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

We are looking for an exceptional Java Backend Developer to join our Jobs team. You will be part of a product team, working with Agile methodology. Your main responsibility will be to carry out missions together with your team. You will participate from the ground up in the product definition, and thanks to your technical expertise, you will help make it a reality alongside your teammates.

What you will do

  • Be part of a cross-functional product team, working with Agile methodology.

  • Take part from day one in defining the product and bring it to life with your technical expertise.

  • Collaborate closely with your teammates to carry out missions and deliver high-quality solutions.

  • Implement maintainable and efficient code in Java and Kotlin.

  • Follow software design best practices (SOLID, clean architectures, KISS, etc.).

  • Work with Spring, Spring Boot & Cloud.

  • Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and JSON-based services.

  • Contribute to the migration from a monolith to a microservices/event-driven architecture.

  • Implement and maintain comprehensive testing strategies (unit, integration, contract, acceptance, etc.).

  • Use Git and GitHub as part of the daily workflow.

  • Work in an Agile environment (Scrum, Lean, …).

Who you are

  • A great professional and an even better person.

  • Curious, positive, proactive, and passionate about your work.

  • Someone with an agile mindset that goes beyond rituals and buzzwords.

  • Eager to share your knowledge with teammates and learn from them.

  • Able to strike the right balance between innovation, stability, and risk.

  • Interested in discovering the processes behind every great brand.

Nice to have

  • Experience with AWS/CloudFormation.

  • Background in distributed, fault-tolerant, resilient, highly available systems.

  • Knowledge of DDD.

  • Familiarity with Linux, Shell scripting.

  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes.

  • Knowledge of Apache Kafka.

  • Experience with Jenkins, Spinnaker.

  • Hands-on experience with TDD.

  • Strong level of English.

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) 🏆

  • 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.