Senior Backend Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Scala): Developing the core of a printing app, written in Scala, enabling customers to create personalized print products with minimal effort with an accent on designing new features and REST APIs. Focus on improving the architecture to help scale with the growing demand.

Location: Hybrid with 40% home office days and flexible hours (core hours: 10am-4pm Mo-Th; and 10am-2pm Fri). Seamless relocation and visa support if you are a non-EU citizen with a finished Computer Science degree.

Salary: €78,000

Company

hirify.global is a creative tech company building the world’s most-downloaded printing app that empowers customers to effortlessly create beautiful photo books and other print products.

What you will do

• Develop the core of the number 1 printing app in the world, written in Scala.
• Collaborate with frontend colleagues, product designers and managers to help improve products by designing and developing new features and REST APIs.
• Improve architecture to help scale with the growing demand.
• Proactively identify and communicate improvements in your own and your teams work.
• Give and receive feedback, criticize constructively and foster an environment for constant improvement.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience developing Backend applications.
• Strong knowledge in any JVM based language such as Scala OR Kotlin OR Java.
• Experience working with Docker and AWS Cloud Services (S3, SQS, ECS, ECR, SES, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, ElasticCache, CloudFront).
• Experience working with any SQL database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB) and any NoSQL database (Redis, AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB).
• Know how to write automated unit tests with their respective mocks.
• Experience developing and designing REST APIs.
• Strong communication, documentation and collaboration skills.
• Urge to tackle technical debt.

Nice to have

• Experience with migrations from monolith to microservice infrastructure.
• Experience with applying security best practices to protect users data and the entire application landscape.
• CI/CD experience with GitLab and automating workflows.
• Interested in working with image processing algorithms.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working model with 40% home office days and flexible hours (core hours: 10am-4pm Mo-Th; and 10am-2pm Fri).
• 25 days off per year, plus 1 extra day for every year you stick around (up to 5 extra days!)
• Fresh daily lunches, public transport card reimbursement, additional €300 yearly towards your private pension fund.
• Company MacBook, premium membership on all hirify.global products.
• In-house meditation, pilates and yoga sessions every two weeks, regular in-house health check.
• Weekly in-house German lessons, premium Busuu App membership.