Diego Conejo is from Costa Rica and moved to Germany in 2018 to obtain his Master’s degree. He started working as a Web Analyst for the Consumer Journey at Scout24 in July 2020. We talked to him about why he enjoys working at ImmoScout24, the advantages his background offers and the advice he has for someone thinking about moving to Germany.

1.Where are you originally from and what is your job at ImmoScout24?

Diego: Hey, I am Diego, born and raised in the small-yet-beautiful Costa Rica, and I’ve been working at ImmoScout24 as a Web Analyst for the Consumer Journey…

Joseph Zamora is from the Philippines and works as Senior Project Manager for Finance Systems & Projects. He moved from Düsseldorf to join us in Berlin and has been a Scout since October 2020. In this interview, he took time to talk to us about the challenges of relocation, the languages he speaks and the differences between his home country and Germany.

1.Where are you originally from and what is your job at Scout24?

Joseph: I am from Negros Oriental, Philippines and I work as a Senior Project Manager in the Financial Systems & Project team.

2. What has been…

By Thu-Trang Ho

The Corona pandemic has bought a lot of challenges but it has also have made us become more agile than ever. The story behind the further development of ImmoScout24’s live viewing feature is a perfect example for that. With the help of this feature, home seekers can take part in a property viewing at any time and from anywhere via video call using the ImmoScout24 iOS or Android App. We sat down to talk to Alia Asaad, Product Manager, and Haitham Aboshahba, Engineering Manager, to discuss the challenges, the implementation and the learnings.

1.The live viewing project…

By Johanna Fitschen

Our HackWeek offers all Scouts, techie or not, the opportunity to spend a week each year to develop ideas, pitch them in front of colleagues and work together as #OneTeam with Scouts from all departments to follow up on projects they have always wanted to tackle. This year, HackWeek was held entirely online. In different categories our Scouts can take different approaches with their ideas during HackWeek.

In this year’s category “Bleeding edge technology”, they had the chance to become creative with the help of state-of-the-art technology. As one of the winning teams, they can donate 500…

By Thu-Trang Ho

Anna Morgiel is Junior Software Engineer for Android at Scout24. She is also volunteering as a community organiser at Women Techmakers Berlin and Google Developer Groups Android, which are Berlin’s chapters of global programmes run by Google. We sat down and talked to her about her work at Scout24, her background and her activities at Google’s Women Techmakers programme in Berlin.

1. Hi Anna, firstly, could you please introduce yourself and tell us what you are doing at Scout24?

Anna: Sure! I am one of the app developers in the mobile team. We create the official ImmoScout24 app…

Meet Hussam Khrais, Security Engineer at Scout24 and co-creator of “Scanny”

Hussam Khrais has been #WorkingAtScout24 as a Security Engineer for almost one and a half years now where he focuses on securing Scout24’s platform by building security scanners. One of these scanners is the recently built “Scanny.” Find out more in this interview.

You are a Security Engineer at Scout24. Since when have you been with Scout24?

Hussam: I have been working at Scout24 since March 1st, 2019.

What are your tasks as a Security Engineer at Scout24?

Hussam: The core job is to secure Scout24’s platform. We do…

Hussam Khrais has been #WorkingAtScout24 as a Security Manager for almost one and a half years now where he focuses on securing Scout24’s platform by building security scanners. One of these scanners is the recently built “Scanny.” Find out more in this interview.

You are a Security Engineer at Scout24. Since when have you been with Scout24?

Hussam: I have been working at Scout24 since March 1st, 2019.

What are your tasks as a Security Engineer at Scout24?

Hussam: The core job is to secure Scout24’s platform. We do this via building security scanners. We automate findings, ticketing and reporting to developers.

In your experience, what differs working at Scout24 from working at other tech companies?

Hussam: Flexibility since we have the opportunity to present ideas and work on them as long as they add value and solve…

Safaa Alnabulsi has been with Scout24 since 2017 and has been working as a Cloud Platform Engineer in the field of Application Platform. In her recent blog post, Safaa provided some handy insights into how to find success with pair programming — a collaborative technique she regularly does together with her team at Scout24.

Some of the team's highlight and data-driven projects where they've utilised pair programming include the completion of AutoScout24 after its sale and the Unified Backup DR solution ⏤ which is a solution for the Scout24 Group to create backups cross-region and cross-account for various data store…