Jófogás (a “good catch” in Hungarian) is the no.1 second hand marketplace in Hungary (kinda like Facebook Marketplace, Kleinanzeigen or a million-times-better-UX-Craigslist).
I joined Adevinta (the company behind the marketplace) in summer of 2020, and I became part of a cross-functional team. We had frontend, backend, native app engineers, UX designers, marketing and BI people in the same team. It allowed for a lot of close collaboration and the team being in sync all the time. This was my first full-time tech job (after freelancing for some time before) and all of my worries about teamwork being difficult to keep up with faded away in the first few weeks.
As a frontend developer on the team, I was mostly implementing functionality and improving the UI on features like search filters, saved searches and “shops” (promoted sellers with a lot of items).
I also worked on a lot of A/B tests, accessibility improvements, as well as marketing campaigns to promote the many features of Jófogás.
Most of the feature work I did here was on a legacy codebase in AngularJS, which was becoming more and more of a grievance of developers at the company. Being one of the more vocal people pushing for a change, and a fan of React anyway, after a couple months I moved to a task force with external help to rewrite the home page of Jófogás in React and TypeScript, which proved a very fun challenge. We had to have a lot of discussions on how to set the foundations of a project that will have to scale much more than what our current goal was. It was also a great opportunity to set up strict accessibility standards and guardrails from the start, which barely existed in the legacy codebase.
I had an absolute blast of a time working here, on a cool product with a group of kind and inspiring people. I left because I wanted to move to Berlin. And I did!