Martina Raquel Romero

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VP of Engineering, Meridian Mobility - Scala · Java · learning to rank

Meridian Mobility
Barcelona, Spain · CET (UTC+1)
13+ years experience
INSEAD
English, Spanish
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Overview

I lead search and ranking at Meridian Mobility in Barcelona. Reduced cloud spend on search by 23% in two quarters. Before that: Farfetch and Cabify. I read too many books about cities.

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Skills
ScalaJavalearning to rankElasticsearch
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Building out search at Meridian Mobility: backend engineers wanted in Barcelona

Role
Backend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$190k-$235k + equity
Team
Search, 15 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with Elasticsearch Production experience with learning to rank Clear written communication
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp €92k-€130k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Barcelona, Spainlearning to rankscalajava
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Jul 2025 - Present
    Meridian Mobility · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Barcelona, Spain
    • Built the experimentation framework 31 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Brought on-call pages for search down from 23 a week to 2.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Jul 2022 - Jul 2025
    Farfetch · 3 yr · Full-time · Barcelona, Spain
    • Brought on-call pages for search down from 17 a week to 3.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Oct 2018 - Jul 2022
    Cabify · 3 yr 9 mo · Contract · Barcelona, Spain
    • Previously an operator for 8 years before investing.
  4. Software Engineer
    Oct 2015 - Oct 2018
    Nestlé · 3 yr · Full-time · Barcelona, Spain
    • Moved 66% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Software Engineer
    Mar 2014 - Oct 2015
    TotalEnergies · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Barcelona, Spain
    • Wrote the learning to rank service that now handles 30 million requests a day.

Projects

Open-source learning to rank toolkit
2025

A small library for search and ranking that 112 developers star on GitHub.

Side project: a habit tracker
2022

Built with learning to rank and Java. 3532 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. INSEAD
    MBA, Business Administration
    2000 - 2002
  2. École Polytechnique
    Ingénieur, Electrical Engineering
    1996 - 2000

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