Platform Architect
Gumtree - Richmond, London
eBay Classifieds Group is a creative leader in online classifieds, with twelve brands that span the globe. Our sites help people find whatever they’re looking for in their local communities - whether it’s a sofa, a car, a dress, job, an apartment, a concert ticket, or financial services. As the world leader in online classifieds, we pride ourselves on knowing the markets we operate in - our success is the result of tailoring our sites to the subtle distinctions of each market. Our sites have become a part of the local culture in many countries and play a big part in the lives of our customers.
People who want to connect and trade visit our sites because they’re fun, easy to use and built on trust. We are in 17 countries across all continents and with our twelve unique brands - 2dehands.be/2ememain.be, alaMaula, BilBasen, Close5, DBA, eBay Classifieds (eBay Classifieds and eBay Kleinanzeigen), Gumtree, Kijiji, LoQUo, Marktplaats.nl, mobile.de, and Vivanuncios - offer online classifieds in more than 1,000 cities around the world.
Gumtree is part of the eBay Classified Group. Founded in London in 2000, Gumtree is today the UK’s leading classified site, with over 14.5m unique visitors every month and over 9.5m app downloads. The platform enables people to trade everything from cars to home items and find jobs, local services, community events and even somewhere to live.
Job Responsibilities:
The Platform Architect will report directly to the CTO. As Platform Architect you will be operating cross-functionally, providing leadership to ensure that agreed architecture, principles and practices are followed. Being responsible for ensuring alignment between architecture and the business, like ensure that the platform is structured around business capability - This requires a distinct focus on collaboration with domain experts and partners across the whole business.
As we continue to grow our business and our offerings, you will need to ensure that our architecture and technology offering scale with and drive, our business.
- Previous experience with an eCommerce technology company as a lead architect.
- A desire to execute on the current platform strategy. And to research current software design and architecture patterns. At the same time continue to evolve it to keep our company ahead of the industry.
- Execute on a ‘divide and conquer’ architecture strategy - build and lead a team of architects around this.
- Collaborate and lead engineering teams to ensure that implementations are consistent within our defined principles and standard methodologies.
- Collaborate with product owners, domain experts and partners across the business to align between architecture and business.
- Collaborate with Site Operations to align platform strategy with operational concerns - leading towards a DevOps culture.
- Collaborate and knowledge share with senior architects, technology leaders and business partners across eBay Classifieds Group.
- Identify opportunities for engineering productivity improvements and directions, and evangelize them successfully.
- Identify gaps in skills/knowledge required to satisfy the overall technology needs of the development team and the business.
- Lead, coach and mentor engineers across the whole technology team.
- Strong interpersonal skills, intellectual curiosity, real passion for problem-solving, and comfort with ambiguity.
- Experience with mobile/multi-device development.
- Intense experience with agile work style like Lean Start-up, Kanban and Scrum.
- High energy and a desire to work in a results-oriented, fast growth company that never lost its start-up spirit.
- Fluent in English