Senior Backend Engineer

🚀 Join the Fotocasa Group Tech Team as an Backend Engineer!

🏠 We are Fotocasa Group, Spain’s real estate tech leaders.

Now part of the Scout24 Group, we are stronger than ever. We are combining our local market expertise with the power of a leading European digital ecosystem. Our mission: to connect people and homes through intelligent tools and the best market offerings.

We are currently redesigning our processes and culture to lead the market. If you’re a status-quo-challenger who thrives on innovation and matchmaking, we want you on board for this journey!

As a Backend Engineer, you will work in one of the product teams by providing services and solutions that would help millions of users.

What You'll Do:

- 🔝Lead technical direction within your product team, architecting scalable solutions that support millions of users.

- 🤝 You will work closely together with the team to analyze problems and define hypotheses to solve them, even being able to propose solutions with ambiguity.

- 🧪 Those hypotheses will be validated through iterative solutions, experimentation, and a fail-fast culture.

- 🚀 Be a driver of technical evolution within the Backend community, identifying and introducing emerging technologies and best practices from the industry to continuously raise the engineering bar across the organization.

- 🎯 Align between several teams is important to provide solutions that could fit all stakeholders at the right moment.

- 🌱 You will mentor other engineers, lead technical design reviews, and foster a culture of engineering excellence

- 🌉 You will take ownership of cross-team initiatives, bridging the gap between product strategy and technical implementation.

- 🗺️ You will think beyond the backend: understanding the full end-to-end product experience and ensuring technical decisions are grounded in business and user impact.

What We’re Looking For

💻 Technical skills

• 8+ years of experience in backend development, with significant experience in high-scale distributed systems.
• Kotlin, Java.
• Deep experience in system architecture, microservices design patterns, and performance optimization.
• Experience building microservices (Spring boot, spring cloud).
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g. Lambda, S3, RDS) in production environments.
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, ECS, Docker Swarm.
• Experience with streaming processing tools like Kafka.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g. Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana), including defining alerting strategies and SLOs.
• Experience with CI/CD tools.
• Good development practices (SOLID, testing), security care and proficiency in building well-tested code.
• Experience working with Agile frameworks (scrum).
• Ability to drive technical initiatives end-to-end, from problem definition to delivery, with a high level of ownership and attention to detail.
• You will own the technical vision: simplifying our architecture, reducing accidental complexity, and ensuring every technical decision is grounded in business alignment and long-term engineering excellence.

✨ Nice To Have Knowledge

• Accelerate metrics
• Storytelling skills
• Mentoring and Interviewing skills

🧠 Soft Skills, Mindset & Collaboration

• Cross-Team Collaboration: Strong communication skills with a proven ability to align multiple engineering teams.
• Pragmatic & Outcome-Driven: Focused on delivery, strong ownership, and operational excellence.
• DevEx & Team Growth: Passionate about improving developer experience, mentoring, and elevating team performance.
• Technical Leadership: Expert in architectural trade-offs, leading technical discovery, and navigating ambiguity.
• Talent Acquisition: Experienced in conducting technical interviews.
• Fluency in Spanish and English.

Perks & Benefits 🚀

• 💰 Competitive Salary + Bonus: We offer a package that reflects your experience and impact.
• ⚖️ Flexibility & Balance: Enjoy a hybrid work model (2 days in the office), 25 vacation days, and 20 "work from anywhere" days per year.
• 📚 Professional Development: Grow your skills with an individual budget dedicated to your training and certifications.
• 🏢 Top-Tier Offices: Work from our incredible spaces in Glòries (Barcelona), featuring terraces, an on-site canteen, and free breakfast. ☕🥐
• 🏥 Health Insurance: Stay covered with 100% premium health insurance for you.
• 🎟️ Flexible Remuneration: Save on taxes with options for public transport, gym memberships, childcare, meals, and family health coverage.
• 💻 State-of-the-Art Tech: We’ll provide you with the latest equipment and hardware to do your best work.

Fotocasa Group is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Apply anyway. Research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups often only apply if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We recognize that talent comes in many forms, and we strongly encourage individuals from historically excluded groups to apply. We’d love the chance to hear your story and see how you can contribute to our team.