About the Role
We’re hiring a Software Engineer to join Search & Performance group at AutoScout24 – the group behind the Algorithms and Data Quality that powers the AutoScout24 Search Experience and Ad Products. 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.
What you’ll do:
- Work on product and tech initiatives finding the right mix between effort, quality and user value
- Optimize and improve the AS24 technology stack by targeting individual and team efficiency, applying future proven concepts, architectural principles, and frameworks
- Support our agile product development approach
What you need to succeed:
- Deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot, with a breadth of knowledge across a range of languages and technologies in both Object-Oriented and Functional paradigms; able to quickly grasp new concepts and tools Experience with Scala is a plus
- 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Kafka, and AWS is a strong plus
- Team player but also decisive mentality
- Demonstrated personal excellence in using GenAI coding tools (for example GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor, OpenAI Codex) to significantly improve your own development speed and quality: code generation, refactoring, debugging, tests and documentation.
- Experience integrating LLM APIs (such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI or similar) into applications or internal tools.
- A pragmatic view of GenAI: you understand its limitations and risks and know how to put guardrails in place (reviews, tests, policies) to keep usage safe, compliant and sustainable at scale.