Senior Backend Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Athens

Reporting To: Alexander Sereda

Description

YOUR JOURNEY STARTS HERE...

OUR VALUES

This position presents the opportunity to work in a business-critical role in a rapidly growing company. You will also uphold our four core values:

• Be the solution - take ownership, drive collaboration
• Be resourceful - strive for new wins every day
• Be honest - default to transparency
• Be respectful - treat others like you want to be treated
  
  
  

We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups and would invite you to apply. A diverse workforce is a highly productive one, so why not take a chance, send us your application even if you don't meet all our requirements, we may surprise you!

“Culture add” is so much better than "culture fit" and welcome applications from all groups, irrespective of your age, disability, gender reassignment, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, veteran status, and sexual orientation.

We celebrate our diversity.

Role and Responsibilities

As a senior backend engineer you will be a part of a cross-functional and an agile team of 5-7 people, where you will;

• Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle
• Work with cutting-edge technologies/libraries on a microservice based architecture
• Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Write clean and quality code, build prototypes, solve issues, profile and manage bottlenecks
• Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met and allow for regression testing
  
  
  

If you are interested to learn more about our tech stack, check out our stackshare.io profile!

Preferred Experience

• Experience managing large projects and system design.
• Demonstrable object-oriented software design and development experience for distributed infrastructure systems; using one or more of the server-side programming languages, preferably Ruby not necessarily.
• Demonstrable experience with relational (e.g MySQL, PostgreSQL) and non-relational (e.g MongoDB, DynamoDB) databases
• Experience with message brokers(e.g RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS)
• Deep knowledge on Computer Science fundamentals, algorithms and data structures
• Experienced in defining solutions and designing containerized applications (Kubernetes) on Cloud (e.g AWS, GCP) and on micro-services architecture
  
  
  

We will be really excited if you also have:

• A strong interest in pursuing a future leadership role as a tech lead.
  
  
  

Job Benefits

• Attractive compensation
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• A'Dam Program for you to visit us in Amsterdam for 2-4 weeks every year.
• For candidates resident outside the location where the role is advertised, salaries are weighted according to local factors and considerations based on where you reside.
• As a travel-related company, we have fantastic #wegather events (aka team/department retreats)
• The latest tech you need to be successful