Senior Software Engineer

About the Position

A career driven by you. Join AutoScout24 Group and experience life in the fast lane. We’re not just leading the market; we’re creating it. We’re constantly innovating, evolving, and transforming things for our customers. We’re driven, ambitious, and determined to do our best work, together. For a career that doesn’t stand still, where you can put your ideas in the driving seat and change the way the world moves, join our international community.

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Search Funnel team at AutoScout24 – the team behind the core buyer journey. This role is about real ownership: you’ll work on high-traffic systems, shape key parts of our user experience, and contribute to critical business outcomes. This role is a full stack engineer who is excited about GenAI’s boosting their own engineering performance and productivity and now wants an opportunity to influence a large, ambitious organization.

The engineering world is moving very fast. We are all learning every day. Your core traits should be curiosity and a strong drive to learn and grow. We do not expect you to know everything. We expect you to help accelerate our curiosity and learning culture, and to become AI-first together with us.

Responsibilities

• Be part of a team of strong fullstack engineers, guiding feature development using React, TypeScript, Node.js, Java, Next.
• Drive strategic technical decisions, ensure optimal code design standards, and promote long-term system health with the team.
• Architect and maintain a modular monolith that’s clean, scalable, and built to last.
• Apply an AI-first mindset to every phase of you-build-it-you-run-it: from design and coding to testing, deployment, and operations.
• Work hands-on in real product codebases (for example TypeScript/Node/Next.js or Java/Spring), using GenAI tools to accelerate development, improve quality, and simplify existing systems.
• Optimize frontend performance with a strong focus on Core Web Vitals and user experience.
• Design backend services, in the cloud, that are efficient, observable, and production-ready.
• Drive A/B experimentation, performance measurement, and data-informed decisions.
• Mentor engineers across the team and foster a high-performance engineering culture.

Requirements

• Engineering experience of 10+ years
• Experience of leading team(s) of 5+ people in the last several years
• Deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Node.js
• Experience driving and applying good code design principles
• Experience building and running high-traffic applications in a product-focused environment
• Demonstrated personal excellence in using GenAI coding tools (preferably Codex) to significantly improve your own development speed and quality
• Experience integrating LLM APIs (such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI or similar) into production applications
• Strong understanding of frontend performance, SEO, and Core Web Vitals
• Comfortable working with experimentation, feature flags, and data-driven iteration
• Clear communicator and natural mentor, capable of guiding technical decisions and team growth

Nice to Have

• Solid backend knowledge in Java and distributed systems (Scala is a plus)
• Experience in marketplace platforms or high-visibility consumer-facing products
• Familiarity with frontend architecture at scale: routing, state, and modular UI design
• Contributions to frontend or backend tooling, testing strategies, or performance profiling

We Offer

• A culture of growth with over 50 nationalities represented
• Tools, training, and support to work in a way that suits you
• Opportunities to learn new skills and reach your potential

About the Company

For a career where you can drive our business and shape your future, apply now.