Europe's largest real-estate marketplace with expanding mortgage and fintech services
idealista operates the largest real-estate classifieds platform in Europe, serving property buyers, sellers, and agents across Spain, Portugal, and Italy. The company is shifting from a pure-listing marketplace toward a fintech and services layer—evidenced by active projects in mortgage digitization, lead-generation partnerships, and a data import/export platform—while modernizing infrastructure through Terraform and Docker adoption. Sales-driven hiring (46% of open roles) reflects aggressive expansion beyond core listing volume.
Founded in 2000, idealista is a privately held marketplace for residential and commercial property transactions across Southern Europe. The platform handles millions of monthly visits and generates Europe's largest real-estate traffic. Beyond listing discovery, idealista operates subsidiary brands and service lines including mortgage marketplace (idealista/hipotecas), property data (idealista/data), insurance, and portfolio management tools (Gestim, Miogest, Regold). The company operates offices in Spain, Portugal, and Italy, with an engineering-led product stack built on Java, Node.js, Python, and AWS.
idealista's core stack includes Java, Node.js, Python, and PHP on AWS infrastructure (ECS, Kubernetes). Frontend uses React and TypeScript; analytics powered by Google Analytics 4 and Amplitude. Currently adopting Terraform and Docker for infrastructure modernization.
Current projects include virtual tours, property floor plans, mortgage digitization, and a lead-generation partnership program. Infrastructure work focuses on cloud migration of legacy systems and evolution of the internal cloud library. The company is also automating recruitment processes and building out data import/export capabilities.
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