Idealista is the leading real estate marketplace in Southern Europe, operating primarily in Spain, Italy, and Portugal. Founded in 2000, the company has grown into a major PropTech powerhouse, offering a comprehensive platform for property listings, mortgage brokerage services, and specialized software tools for real estate professionals.

Headquartered in Madrid, Idealista maintains a significant presence across Spain with major hubs in Barcelona and Málaga. The company is a prime destination for international professionals, particularly those with multilingual skills in Italian, French, or Portuguese, as it manages operations across multiple European markets from its Spanish offices.

Founded in 2000 by Jesús Encinar, Fernando Encinar, and César Oteiza in Madrid. It has since expanded to become the dominant real estate portal in Spain, Italy, and Portugal through organic growth and strategic acquisitions.

For international professionals

Market leader in the Spanish PropTech sector with a highly recognizable brand.
Offers a multilingual work environment with specific roles for Italian, French, and Portuguese speakers.
Maintains physical offices in major Spanish tech hubs including Madrid, Barcelona, and Málaga.
Provides opportunities in diverse fields ranging from software development and product management to mortgage consulting and sales.

This job was published a year ago

Backend Engineer

Idealista

This job was originally posted in Spanish and automatically translated to English. You'll most likely need Spanish to apply.

Job Description

Are you passionate about programming?

At idealista, we are expanding our senior profiles for our technology team.

If you like being surrounded by great colleagues, working with a positive vibe and in a collaborative environment, keep reading! We're sure you'll like idealista 😉

What will you do?

You will work alongside your team members developing new functionalities.
You will have fluid communication with the business side to understand their needs and problems. Additionally, you will work side-by-side with our product and UX team to provide a technical vision for the solutions we define for them.
You will help keep the platform stable... Yes, at idealista we also have bugs, so you will have to help identify and solve them.

What do we offer?

You will be able to see the direct impact of your work on one of the reference websites in Spain, Italy, and Portugal. For those who haven't experienced it yet: you don't know the thrill you get the first time you see something you've built on a platform used by millions of people.
We are Remote Friendly :) but we have offices in the center of Madrid to see each other from time to time.
You are going to learn. We mean it. The platform is constantly evolving, and from that, we get tons of internal talks, posts, workshops... that make knowledge flow.
Additionally... we sponsor events, attend them, and host many meetups. Learning is just as important as teaching your teammates!
In addition to your salary, you can opt for a flexible remuneration plan (transport card, gourmet vouchers, health insurance...) which you can benefit from from day one.
English, Italian, and Portuguese classes.
Fresh fruit and coffee always available in the kitchen.
We also have a physio and yoga classes... because for us, the most important thing is taking care of our idealistas!
Besides working, we like to have fun, so if you join our family, every month you'll celebrate something... Halloween, Valentine's Day, Christmas... You're going to have a great time!
Teambuilding and much more!

What do we expect from you?

You have at least 3 years of experience developing the backend of an application using Java, and you can tell us about it.
We mainly work with Java and Spring, but what really interests us is that you have well-established programming fundamentals.
You don't settle for "as long as it works, it's fine." We place great value on both best practices and defining designs and architectures that allow us to extend the platform sustainably. So we expect these to be terms that you also value.
We work as a team. The team consists of your colleagues, but also the product and UX people, as well as the business people, etc.
You love this world. And you love knowing that you will have to keep learning throughout your entire professional life. Additionally, you are humble enough to accept teachings from your colleagues, and generous enough to share your knowledge with them :)
You have curiosity and initiative. Ultimately, this job is about the problems we are able to solve and how we manage to do it. Therefore, you are expected to be able to analyze, ask, request help (and offer it), and know how to propose solutions to them.

What other things are a plus?

In addition to having tackled the backend, you are comfortable with the front end.
You are curious and have experimented with at least other programming paradigms such as functional programming.
We also value if you can manage yourself minimally in the language of Shakespeare. At a reading level, it is indispensable, because 80% of the technical material in our profession is in English. If you also speak it with some fluency, even better!

We are looking forward to meeting you and for you to get to know us.

Do you accept the challenge?

View original advert (Spanish)

¿Eres un apasionado de la programación?

En idealista, estamos ampliando nuestro equipo perfiles senior para nuestro equipo de tecnología.

Sí te gusta estar rodeado de buen@s compañer@s, trabajar con buen rollo y en un ambiente colaborativo ¡sigue leyendo! seguro que idealista te va a gustar 😉

¿Qué harás?

Trabajarás junto a tus compañer@s del equipo desarrollando nuevas funcionalidades.
Tendrás un trato fluido con la gente de negocio para poder entender sus necesidades y problemas. Además, trabajarás codo con codo con nuestro equipo de producto y UX para aportar una visión técnica a las soluciones que definamos para los mismos.
Ayudarás a que la plataforma esté estable...Sí, en idealista también tenemos bugs, así que tendrás que ayudar a identificarlos y solucionarlos.

¿Qué te ofrecemos?

Podrás ver el impacto directo de tu trabajo en una de las webs de referencia tanto en España, como en Italia y Portugal. Para los que no lo hayáis vivido ya: no sabéis el cosquilleo que da en la tripa la primera vez que ves algo que has hecho en una plataforma que utilizan millones de personas.
Somos Remote Friendly :) pero tenemos oficinas en el centro de Madrid para vernos de vez en cuando.
Vas a aprender. Lo decimos en serio. La plataforma va evolucionando constantemente, y de ahí sacamos mogollón de charlas internas, posts, talleres... que hacen que el conocimiento fluya.
Además... patrocinamos eventos, acudimos a ellos y hacemos muchos meetups. ¡Es tan importante aprender como enseñar a tus compis!
Además de tu salario, podrás acogerte a un plan de retribución flexible (tarjeta de transporte, cheques gourmet, seguro médico...) del que te podrás beneficiar desde el primer día.
Clases de Inglés, italiano y portugués.
Fruta fresca y café siempre disponible en la cocina.
¡También tenemos fisio y clases de yoga ... porque para nosotros lo más importante es cuidar de nuestros idealistas!
Además de trabajar, nos gusta pasarlo bien, por eso que si te unes a nuestra familia, cada mes celebrarás algo...Halloween, San Valentín, Navidad,...¡Te lo vas a pasar muy bien!
Teambuilding y mucho más!

¿Qué esperamos de ti?

Tienes al menos 3 años de experiencia desarrollando el backend de alguna aplicación utilizando Java, y nos puedes hablar de ello.
Nosotr@s trabajamos principalmente con Java y Spring pero lo que de verdad nos interesa es que tengas ciertos fundamentos de programación bien asentados.
No te quedas en el "con que funcione vale". Nosotr@s damos mucho valor tanto a las buenas prácticas, como a definir diseños y arquitecturas que nos permitan extender la plataforma de manera sostenible. Así que esperamos que estos sean términos a los que tú también les des importancia.
Nosotr@s trabajamos en equipo. El equipo son tus compañer@s; pero también lo es la gente de producto y UX, así como la gente de negocio, etc.
Te gusta este mundillo. Y te encanta saber que vas a tener que estar aprendiendo durante toda tu vida laboral. Además, eres lo suficientemente humilde como para aceptar las enseñanzas de tus compañeros, y lo suficientemente generoso como para compartir con ellos tu conocimiento :)
Tienes curiosidad e iniciativa. Al final, este trabajo va de los problemas que somos capaces de resolver y de cómo logramos hacerlo. Así que se espera de ti que seas capaz de analizar, preguntar, pedir ayuda (y ofrecerla), y saber plantear soluciones a los mismos.

¿Qué otras cosas son un plus?

Además de haberte pegado con la parte de backend, tienes soltura con el front.
Sientes curiosidad y has experimentado al menos con otros paradigmas de programación como la programación funcional.
Valoramos además que te desenvuelvas mínimamente en la lengua de Shakespeare. A nivel de lectura es indispensable, porque el 80% del material técnico en nuestra profesión es en inglés. Si además lo hablas con cierta soltura, muchísimo mejor!