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 806 million EUR and are embarking on our international journey with the aim to become the world’s best unique goods trading platform.
The Challenge 🧩
Your mission will be to guide the teams in building and delivering a compelling product that empowers developers with a suite of self-service tools, APIs, and services to provide high-quality products quickly and efficiently. You'll foster a growth, collaboration, and innovation culture, enabling our engineers to build efficiently, standardize effectively, and drive the next wave of platform excellence.
What You Will Do 👇
- Lead engineering for the Platform team to develop and deliver a cohesive suite of self-service APIs, tools, and services that drive innovation, security, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Champion a culture of developer experience within the Platform team and across the organization
- Collaborate with development teams to identify and address pain points in their workflows and tooling.
- Ensure efficient, purposeful meetings and streamlined processes that empower your team to stay agile, efficient, and aligned with organizational goals.
- Coach and mentor engineers to foster growth, support skill development, and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement and engineer-centric mindset.
- Gather feedback from internal users (developers) and stakeholders, analyze platform usage data, and use this information to iterate and improve the platform
- Evangelize the platform as a product to internal stakeholders, promoting its value and encouraging adoption.
- Implement process improvements that enable secure, high-performance infrastructure, CI/CD best practices, and elevated observability standards to support product and data platform.
- Conduct regular one-on-one sessions with engineers to:
- Set clear expectations and provide ongoing feedback, ensuring team members remain accountable and engaged.
- Develop a strong two-way feedback loop where you share organizational context and build a deep understanding of the engineer and how they work
- Support engineers and help reach a resolution when challenges arise
- Craft a fulfilling and engaging work experience through regular career growth and development conversation
- Iterate and improve our engineering processes and technical culture
- Participate in hiring and onboarding of engineers
What We’re Looking For 🔎
- Passion for building tools and platforms that make developers' lives easier.
- You have experience leading engineering teams (Ideally +2 years)
- You have a deep understanding of how software is built and deployed
- Strong understanding of developer experience principles and best practices
- Excellent English communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with development teams (Spanish is a plus)
- You’re comfortable with participatory management / servant leadership
- Positive attitude, excellent problem-solving, and critical thinking
- Quality-driven, attention to detail, and pragmatic
- Excellent communication skills, adaptability, and eagerness to learn
What Would Be A Plus 🚀
- Experience leading cross-functional teams, particularly within a platform or infrastructure-focused environment.
- Experience with measuring and improving key developer experience metrics
- Familiarity with mobile development.
- Previous exposure to Tribes & Squads models.
Do note that all our jobs are 📍 Barcelona based. We follow a hybrid model where flexibility rules. We commit to a minimum of 6 days per month in the office. Each team self-organizes to decide on cadence and in-person/remote rituals.
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
- Group and individual English, Catalan & 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
- Bonus for weddings & newborns
- Wallapop Renta (Tax income support)
- Monthly plan for free shipping, bumps & home-pick-up on our services
- Workiversary Gifts and Birthday Surprises
- Contribution towards your WIFI in your monthly payroll
- One-off payment based on compensation package to go towards setting up your home 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 - run by talent acquisition, focus on providing more information about the role and the company as well as going over your experience, motivation, and expectations. This usually takes 45-60 minutes.
Practical case - you will prepare a practical case to present in order to assess the skills required for the role.
Expertise Interview - run by the core team, focus on the hard skills and the ability to deliver in a given context. This usually takes 60-90 minutes.
Stakeholder Interview - run by the hiring team and relevant stakeholders, focus on the ability to collaborate & deliver in a cross-functional set-up, as well as on leadership skills aligned with the role requirements. This usually takes 60 minutes.
Culture Interview - run by culture interviewers, focus on adherence to Wallapop's purpose and business proposition. This usually takes 60 minutes.
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.
