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Android Tech Lead in Barcelona

Wallapop

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Job Description

Wallapop is a Barcelona based scale-up driven by the purpose to empower people to embrace a more conscious and human way of consumption. We believe in a world where collaborative economy is mainstream. This is what drives us.

Wallapop operates in Spain, Italy and Portugal, offering a catalogue of several hundreds of millions of products and services. Powered by technical innovation and continuous improvement, we bring together the scale & trust of classifieds with the marketplace’s convenience & reach. Our mission is to enable a connected trade ecosystem, making 2nd-hand the norm through smart use of technology.

Backed by top investors such as Accel, Insight Partners & Naver Corp we bring our total valuation to 690 million EUR and are embarking on our international journey with the aim to become the world’s best unique goods trading platform.

 

The Challenge

Since our complexity is increasing and our product expands in other markets, our tech challenges are becoming more complex to solve. We look for tech leaders to help us navigate through the complexity and lead the team to the next stage. This the summary of the main challenges we see in Android:

  • Elevate Android software quality: our users deserve a really good Android App quality. We want to do it better. We want to elevate the way we understand software quality, we need to find a good trade-off in our testing practices, and we need someone to lead the team on this path.
  • World-class development process: we believe a high innovation capacity is a key competitive advantage to maintain. We want to evolve to a high experimentation environment where we continuously learn from our users. To do that, we need the proper development process and techniques in place to reach such an ambitious level.
  • Elevate Wallapop development culture: we believe in an environment where our internal Android community will be able to boost the function to a very high stand. We aim to reach a point where we will be known to have an outstanding Android team in Europe Android Community.

The most important parts of our stack are:

  • Kotlin (close to 0 java lines of code)
  • Coroutines / flows
  • Jetpack Compose
  • Multi-module projects
  • Moving forward single flow architecture
  • Anvil on top of Dagger

Testing stack

  • Espresso
  • Junit
  • Compose UI-test
  • Mockwebserver

We also work with:

  • Real-time communication
  • Backend-driven UI in specific areas
  • Feature Flags
  • Design system
  • Technical Metrics (know in real-time the state of the art)
  • CI/CD with Bitrise (owner by Android Team)

 

What You Will Do

  • Influence Android's tech stuff across approx 15 Android engineers (distributed in 3 tribes [CNN, PROs, TRX] and ~9 cross-functional teams)
  • Co-create the vision with the rest of the Android Tech Leads and both guide the overall Android tech direction.
  • Lead Android testing for the whole chapter and will execute software quality strategy in teams under your tribes of influence.
  • Co-Lead the Android strategy (define, communicate) to reach a world-class development process. You will own the execution of the strategy in tribes under your influence.
  • Collaborate with managers to understand Android members' development needs and sometimes mentor engineers.
  • Review some code and ensure the Android strategy is going in the right direction.
  • Participate in hiring (interviews and reviewing tech tests) and co-lead improvements in our hiring assessment activities.
  • Elevate Wallapop's culture by ensuring learning is happening among Android members in your tribes.
  • Encourage and mentor the Android team to represent Wallapop externally, and at times we expect you represent Wallapop in internal and external events too.

 

What We’re Looking For

  • Someone who will be technically leading teams in architecting, building, and deploying complex solutions
  • An individual able to take projects from scoping and requirements gathering to delivery ensuring solid and scalable solutions are implemented
  • Experience with code refactoring and defining technical standards
  • Strong experience with Android (Kotlin)
  • Experience in CI/CD Tooling & deployment automation

 

Do note that all our jobs are Barcelona based. We work in a mostly remote capacity offering great flexibility to our employees, but we believe in the power of getting together regularly in our office. As a first iteration, we expect a 4+ day/month office attendance for which the specifics are decided on a team level.

Wallapop is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees as we want Wallapop to be a place for everyone.

We sponsor visa processes for international candidates when applicable and provide legal & admin support along the process combined with a competitive relocation package.

Additionally to the opportunity to contribute to an agile product set up and work together towards achieving our meaningful mission, we offer the following Perks & Benefits:

  • Competitive phantom shares package for all employees
  • Generous individual learning budget of 2k per year + our very own Wallalibrary
  • Group and individual English & Spanish lessons as part of our working day
  • Private Health Insurance with Cigna
  • Flexible working hours + short Fridays
  • Flexible remuneration to deduct from gross salary (kindergarten/food/transport check)
  • Gym & Wellness plan, including physiotherapist in the office
  • Generous referral Program & Charity Donation
  • Extended newborn & adoption leave
  • Bonus for weddings & newborns
  • Wallarenta (Tax income support)
  • Monthly plan for free shipping, bumps & home-pick-up on our services
  • Wallanniversary loyalty program
  • Contribution towards your WIFI in your monthly payroll
  • One-off payment based on compensation package to go towards setting up your wallahome office
  • Relocation package (monetary support and legal advice) and visa sponsorship, if applicable
  • 26 holidays per year
  • TOP hardware of your choice (latest Apple or Windows)

 

What does the hiring process for this position look like? **Please, note that all interviews take place remotely over hangouts.**

  • Intro Call - ran by talent acquisition. It will take 30-45 minutes and will focus on giving you more information about the role and the company as well as going over your experience and expectations.
  • Technical task - We offer two options, you can either choose to take our test OR you can provide another recent tech test or a code repository you feel proud of (the provided code should be complex enough to show us evidence about your skills, should be written in Kotlin, and should not be older than one year) this is aimed at assessing your technical skills required for the role.
  • Practical interview - ran by the hiring team and relevant stakeholders across other functions. The focus will be on assessing your ability to apply your skillset to the wallapop context.
  • Competency Interview - ran by talent acquisition and hiring manager. We will focus on gaining insights and understanding of how you operate in the workplace and your fit to our values. This usually takes 45 min to 1 hour.
  • Offer - should you be the right candidate, your offer will be discussed over a call with talent acquisition and will then be confirmed in writing.
 

About Wallapop

  • Classifieds

  • Privately Held

  •  Barcelona, Spain

  • 50-100 employees

  • 2013

Wallapop is your mobile flea market, where you can make money from your old stuff and buy great new things.

Wallapop is a pure mobile marketplace that helps people find the best opportunities to buy and sell nice things nearby. But beyond that, what we really want to do is offer the best street trade experience to all our users around the world. In order to achieve this we are looking for some special people...  



  • - Amazing office space.
  • - Apple or PC equipment of your choice.
  • - Specialised training.
  • - Health insurance.
  • - Amazing offsites twice a year.
  • - International team (now 10 nationalities) .
  • - Help with apartment searches.



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