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MLOps Engineer

Hybrid in BarcelonaΒ·Added 2 months ago

Wallapop

6 open roles

Overview

Job details

  • Hybrid

    Office and home days β€” the ad has the split.

  • A relocation package

    Help with the move, per the ad.

  • Visa sponsorship mentioned

    Stated by the employer in the ad.

Requirements

  • Work in English

    English is required, per the ad.

  • Be near Barcelona for hybrid days

    A relocation package offered.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

Additionally to the opportunity to contribute to an agile product set up and work together towards achieving our meaningful mission, we offer the following 🍭 Perks & Benefits:

  • Generous individual learning budget of 2k per year
  • Free office meals, lunch selection from different providers
  • Group and individual English, Catalan & Spanish lessons as part of our working day
  • Private Health Insurance with Alan
  • Flexible working hours + intensive Fridays
  • Flexible remuneration to deduct from gross salary (kindergarten/food/transport check)
  • Gym & Wellness plan, including physiotherapist in the office
  • Generous referral Program & Charity Donation
  • Bonus for weddings & newborns
  • Wallapop Renta (Tax income support)
  • Monthly plan for free shipping, bumps & home-pick-up on our services
  • Work anniversary Gifts and Birthday Surprises
  • Contribution towards your WIFI in your monthly payroll
  • One-off payment based on compensation package to go towards setting up your home office
  • Relocation package (monetary support and legal advice) and visa sponsorship, if applicable
  • 26 holidays per year
  • TOP hardware of your choice (latest Apple or Windows)

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • Solid experience contributing to and maintaining production-ready ML platforms and pipelines. You understand the lifecycle from experimentation to monitoring.

  • Solid understanding of AWS components (SageMaker, Lambda, S3) and container orchestration with Kubernetes.

  • Strong software engineering background with proficiency in Python, Git, and CI/CD workflows. You write robust, testable code.

  • Experience with real-time ML architectures, leveraging tools like Kafka for low-latency ingestion and inference.

  • Hands-on experience with vector databases or semantic search infrastructure (e.g., OpenSearch, Vertex AI), including indexing and retrieval tuning.

  • Familiarity with the broader ML toolkit, such as orchestration/tracking tools (Flyte, MLFlow, Feast) and standard libraries (Pandas, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow/PyTorch).

  • Professional proficiency in English, with the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse stakeholders.

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience working with LLMs, RAG architectures, and libraries like LangChain or LlamaIndex.

  • Familiarity with Big Data technologies like Spark or Beam.

  • Experience with Data Engineering tools such as Airflow, dbt, or Datahub.

  • Experience with other cloud platforms like GCP or Azure in addition to AWS.

The role

Wallapop is a Barcelona based scale-up driven by the purpose to empower people to embrace a more conscious and human way of consumption. We believe in a world where collaborative economy is mainstream. This is what drives us. πŸ’«

Wallapop operates in Spain, Italy and Portugal, offering a catalogue of several hundreds of millions of products and services. Powered by technical innovation and continuous improvement, we bring together the scale & trust of classifieds with the marketplace's convenience & reach. 🌱 Our mission is to enable a connected trade ecosystem, making 2nd-hand the norm through smart use of technology.

Wallapop generates billions of data points daily. With a mature data infrastructure already in place, our Data Science and Machine Learning area is gaining significant momentum. As we scale, we face the exciting challenge of taking our ML Platform to the next level to support complex solutions in Personalization, Search, Trust & Safety, and Logistics. As an ML Engineer (MLOps), you will contribute to the evolution of our ML Platform and MLOps practice. You will partner with Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and DevOps to collaborate on a vision that balances innovation with reliability, ensuring our models scale efficiently to serve millions of users.

What you'll do

  • Iterate and maintain Wallapop's ML Platform, identifying opportunities to improve speed, reliability, and maintainability. You will help execute the long-term vision and roadmap for MLOps.

  • Work hand-in-hand with Data Scientists to support their efforts, ensuring they have the tooling to develop, deploy, and monitor scalable models efficiently.

  • Adopt and promote engineering best practices (coding standards, testing, CI/CD) within the ML domain.

  • Partner with Data Engineering and DevOps to align ML development with company-wide infrastructure and data governance standards.

  • Investigate and integrate new frameworks and tools (e.g., for LLMs or real-time inference) to keep our stack modern and effective.

How you'll work

Do note that all our jobs are πŸ“ Barcelona based. We follow a hybrid model where flexibility rules. We commit to a minimum of 6 days per month in the office. Each team self-organizes to decide on cadence and in-person/remote rituals.

Hiring process

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  1. Intro call

    With a talent acquisition Β· Video call Β· 45–60 min

    Information about the role and the company, and a look at your experience, motivation and expectations.

  2. Hiring manager call

    With a hiring manager Β· Video call Β· 30–45 min

    A check of basic alignment with the role.

  3. Case study

    In your own time Β· Not every role

    An assigned task to show the relevant expertise, submitted within 5 to 7 days.

  4. Expertise interview

    With hiring team Β· Video call Β· 60–90 min

    Core competencies and your ability to deliver.

  5. Stakeholder interview

    With relevant stakeholders Β· Video call Β· 60 min

    How you collaborate across functions.

  6. Culture interview

    With culture interviewers Β· Video call Β· 60 min

    Alignment with Wallapop's purpose and values.

  7. Offer Β· With a talent acquisition

  • All interviews take place remotely over Hangouts.

Hiring process

What does the hiring process for this position look like? πŸ‘€ **Please, note that all interviews take place remotely over hangouts.**

  • Intro Call - run by Talent Acquisition, focus on providing more information about the role and the company as well as going over your experience, motivation, and expectations. This usually takes 45-60 minutes.
  • Case Study - you will be working in a case study to assess the technical skills required for the role.
  • Expertise Interview - run by the core team, focusing on the hard skills and the ability to deliver in a given context. This usually takes 60-90 minutes.
  • Stakeholder Interview - run by the hiring team and relevant stakeholders, focus on the ability to collaborate & deliver in a cross-functional set-up. This usually takes 60 minutes.
  • Culture-Add Interview - run by culture interviewers, focus on adherence to Wallapop's purpose and business proposition. This usually takes 60 minutes.
  • Offer - should you be the right candidate, your offer will be discussed over a call with talent acquisition and will then be confirmed in writing.

About Wallapop

Wallapop is a Barcelona-based online marketplace platform that connects buyers and sellers of second-hand goods, primarily through a mobile app. Founded in 2013, the company has grown into one of Spain's most prominent consumer tech companies, with a strong presence in Southern Europe and a community of millions of users. The platform covers a wide range of categories, from fashion and electronics to furniture and vehicles, and has expanded its operations internationally.

Wallapop's headquarters are in Barcelona, and the company is a key player in the Spanish tech ecosystem. The work culture is described as dynamic and fast-paced, with a strong focus on product and engineering. For international professionals, Wallapop offers an opportunity to work in a leading product company in a vibrant city like Barcelona, with a multicultural and English-speaking environment, and a strong commitment to innovation and user-centric design.

Industry
Marketplace
Founded
2013
Employees
250–1,000
Headquarters
Barcelona, Spain
In Spain
Barcelona

Good to know if you are moving

  • Wallapop's working language is Spanish, but the company has a strong international and English-speaking culture, especially in tech and product teams.
  • The company is headquartered in Barcelona, a major European tech hub with a large international community.
  • Wallapop offers a hybrid work model, with flexibility for remote work.
  • The company has a strong focus on product and engineering, with a data-driven culture.
  • As a marketplace, Wallapop offers the opportunity to work on a product used by millions of users in Spain and other countries.

In their own words

Additional information

Wallapop is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees as we want Wallapop to be a place for everyone.

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