Senior/principal Architect

Company Description

You'll be joining one of the world’s largest privately owned real estate tech companies and a subsidiary of Axel Springer. Our mission is to unlock everyone’s perfect place You'll work across some of Europe’s best known digital real estate brands including: Meilleurs Agents, Groupe SeLoger, Immoweb, Immowelt, Housell and Yad2.

**Job Description**:
**What you will do as a Senior/Principal Architect?**

Senior/Principal Architects at AVIV Group have a strong software engineering background and are deeply impacting various business and technology decisions spanning multiple projects and locations. They are passionate and pragmatic technologists who design, implement and deliver scalable and resilient systems. They are collaborative role models and approachable leaders within a larger group. They are humble teachers, technically mentoring teams of dedicated engineers while delivering uniquely challenging projects.

**Furthermore you will**:

- ** Contribute at a global level.** We work on integration for the overall global AVIV Group platform. Our systems support millions of users all over Europe.
- ** Lead scale & reliability.** Building platforms at scale requires constant investment in scalability and reliability.
- ** Innovate.** Growth brings new complexity and new challenges every day.
- ** Translate business or tech problem(s)** into one or more efficient technology solutions and plan on bringing these to life while working across several teams.
- ** Set the pragmatic technology vision** across multiple teams, allowing engineers to deliver efficiently and with high quality.
- ** Collaborate with others**, from versatile team members within diverse groups, through technologists in other functions, to responsible leaders across AVIV Group. Build strong relationships with people in the organization.
- ** Provide technical leadership and vision** in designing, implementing, testing, and rolling out the next generations of our systems.
- ** Up the bar on sustainable engineering** by improving methodologies, producing best in class of code, documentation, testing, and monitoring.
- ** Be a humble mentor and trusted advisor** for our team members and passionate leaders. Deal with different opinions maturely and fairly, helping teams commit and move forward.

**Qualifications**:
**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering (e.g., Computer Science, Computer Engineering, etc.).
- 12+ years of relevant full-time software engineering experience.
- A track record of building large-scale, highly-available systems that solve complex, organizational-level business problems.
- Expert and hands-on understanding of large-scale distributed systems and cloud architectures.
- Advanced, inside-out knowledge of multiple programming languages, data storage systems, and message queues.
- Passion for driving continual improvement initiatives on engineering best practices like coding, testing, or monitoring.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including writing detailed technical documents.
- Passionate about helping teams grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers.

Additional Information
**What we offer**:

- We are one of the leading PropTech platforms in Europe. If you have ever rented or bought a property, you may have used one of our classifieds portals. Now is the perfect time to join us and help elevate our AVIV brand.
- A high profile role in our organisation, reporting to our management.
- The opportunity to work hybrid within our business area, with international travel to our sites in France, Belgium and Germany.
- The autonomy to work in the style that suits you best to be most productive.
- The freedom to tell us what tools you need to be successful in your job, so we can prepare you to get there.

**Recruitment process**:

- Telephone pre-qualification with Brian/Will, Talent Acquisition
- Initial Screening with Chief Architect
- In depth interview with Senior/Principal/Enterprise Architect
- In depth interview with Architect/Senior Engineers
- Non technical stakeholder evaluation