Jb Lorenzo

Engineering Manager @OLX

Berlin, DE

Manage a team of up to 12 cross-functional developers, including backend, frontend, and mobile engineers.* Mobile Hiring sponsor for all 3 CUs across Europe - Established hiring practices and standards by aligning with interviewers, resulting in improved interviewer NPS from 50% to ~70% in six months.* Increased delivery adoption in PL from 48% to 66% and in RO from 8% to 17%. Launched the most number of experiments among teams in one quarter.* Led the successful migration of the Posting flow, My Ads, and ad statistics from a monolith to microservices architecture.* Mentors other mobile developers, and a fellow manager. Successfully helped one of the Android engineers get promoted to Senior. Helped a Junior backend developer get promoted to Mid despite the difficulty of promoting.* Managed additional team with 3 developers. Worked with PM to set direction and define experiments.* Led the team to 3 scope changes taking into account the team\'s health and ability to perform.