France's largest C2C marketplace with classifieds, real estate, and auto commerce
Leboncoin operates France's dominant peer-to-peer marketplace across classifieds, real estate, automotive, jobs, and vacation rentals, with 28.8M unique monthly visitors. The tech stack—Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB on AWS with Kubernetes orchestration—supports high-throughput listing pipelines and transaction processing. Current hiring skews engineering and sales equally (21 and 19 roles respectively), while project focus spans ML-driven listing submission, notification systems, and Salesforce-driven CRM automation, indicating a shift toward operational scaling and fraud mitigation alongside platform growth.
Notable leadership hires: Strategy Lead
Leboncoin is a French-founded (2006) peer-to-peer transaction platform that has grown to 1,500+ employees and established itself as the country's leading generalist C2C marketplace. The company operates across multiple verticals—general goods, real estate, automotive, employment, and vacation rentals—and reported 11.8M tonnes of annual CO2 savings through circular economy activity. Technically, the platform is engineered for high concurrency and geographic density, running on AWS infrastructure with Kubernetes-based microservices, distributed caching (Redis, ElastiCache), and multi-database persistence (PostgreSQL, MongoDB). Revenue streams include transaction fees, advertising solutions, and premium listing services.
Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB on AWS. Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible for IaC. Observability via Datadog, Grafana, Kibana. Identity: SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC.
ML-driven listing submission, notification systems, appointment scheduling, automated listing ingestion, Salesforce CRM integration, cloud security standards, fraud reduction, and CI/CD security controls.
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