Mobile-first secondhand marketplace for Spain, Italy, and Portugal
Wallapop operates a classifieds platform built on iOS-native architecture (Swift, RxSwift, UIKit) with a growing backend infrastructure (Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS SageMaker). The tech adoption pattern—moving from UIKit to SwiftUI and scaling ML capabilities via Vertex AI and Flyte—reflects a shift toward modernizing a legacy codebase while building AI-driven features. Hiring velocity is accelerating with product and sales roles dominating, suggesting a pivot toward marketplace dynamics (dealership acquisition, checkout optimization) and sales process formalization rather than pure platform engineering.
Wallapop is a secondhand goods marketplace serving 19 million monthly users across Spain, Italy, and Portugal. The platform facilitates over 100 million listings annually and is particularly established in motor vehicle sales. Founded in Barcelona in 2013, the company operates as a peer-to-peer and dealer-facing marketplace, with active projects around dealership network expansion, payment infrastructure, and funnel optimization. Current challenges center on scaling transaction volume, modernizing an aging mobile codebase, and optimizing payment economics while maintaining market leadership in competitive markets.
Wallapop's primary stack includes Swift, iOS, RxSwift, UIKit, and Realm on mobile; AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, and OpenSearch on backend; and SageMaker, Vertex AI, Flyte, and MLflow for ML workloads. SwiftUI adoption is underway.
Wallapop is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, and operates in Spain, Italy, and Portugal with 201–500 employees.
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