Senior Backend Engineer (German Speaker)

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Lead the development of major team-scoped projects, participate in cross-team initiatives
• - Actively participate in product work in the team: provide feedback, suggest solutions to the problems.
• - Use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements
• - Maintain good understanding of the team’s domain, both from product and engineering sides
• - Provide feedback on code reviews
• - Contribute to the shared codebase
• - Debug and solve technical and business issues
• - Participate in non-team activities, such as support rotations, hiring process, RFC discussions, etc
• - Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers
• - Investigate, propose and participate in implementation of improvements to our platform
• - Design and implement APIs with performance, scalability, and maintainability in mind

Required Skills

• - Significant experience as a Backend Engineer working with Elixir, which includes building, shipping and maintaining a complicated software project
• - Postgres (or similar)
• - CI/CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar)
• - Nice to have: Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Nextjs, React/Vue/Angular

Benefits

• - Work from anywhere
• - Unlimited personal time off (minimum 4 weeks)
• - Quarterly company-wide day off for self care
• - Flexible working hours (we are async)
• - 16 weeks paid parental leave
• - Mental health support services
• - Stock options
• - Learning budget
• - Home office budget & IT equipment
• - Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces