Engineering Manager
OLX
Engineering Manager
OLX
Global peer-to-peer online classifieds marketplace
As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead software engineers building and scaling critical platforms that power the OLX engineering ecosystem. You'll combine strong people leadership with enough technical depth to guide major projects, shape technical direction, and help the team solve complex platform challenges.
This is not a generalist Engineering Manager role. Previous experience leading an engineering team in a Platform environment is mandatory. We need someone who understands what it means to build platforms for other engineers and the unique challenges that come with balancing developer experience, reliability, scalability, standardisation, and team autonomy.
You'll capture requirements, shape ambitious but balanced project scope, lead technical initiatives, and partner across teams to solve technical problems and ensure smooth adoption and implementation of platform solutions. Our Platform environment is a mix of software engineering, APIs, distributed systems, infrastructure, DevOps, scalability, and reliability.
We're looking for someone who can operate at both levels: developing people and leading a Platform team, while providing the technical and organisational leadership needed to make the platform successful.
OLX Group runs a global online peer-to-peer classifieds marketplace that helps people buy and sell a wide range of goods and services, from electronics and furniture to cars, housing, and jobs. Its platform is built for mobile use and focuses on serving emerging markets where value-conscious consumers live, enabling local transactions through listings, chat, and search. Sellers post free or paid ads, and OLX monetizes via advertising (including Google AdSense), premium listings for higher visibility, and subscription tools for business users; in some markets it earns commissions on transactions (e.g., OLX Autos). The company differentiates itself with a large, local-focused footprint across 30+ countries, a mobile-first approach tailored to local needs, and strategic partnerships and acquisitions that expand its reach. Its goal is to connect people to buy and sell locally with a simple, accessible marketplace that supports value-for-money trades and decluttering in underserved markets.
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