Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Python): Spearheading the development of a greenfield, data and multimedia powered product in the wellness & fitness space with an accent on Domain Driven Design and cross-functional product development. Focus on maximizing the pace of experimentation while maintaining quality and ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability of systems.

Location: Cyprus, Ukraine, Poland, Spain, and the UK. Full relocation support to Cyprus is offered.

Company

hirify.global is a global company with Ukrainian roots focused on moving everybody to start and stay well for life, with over 25.5 million users.

What you will do

• Spearhead development of a greenfield product in the wellness & fitness space.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, software engineers, content producers, data experts, and infrastructure teams.
• Mentor team members, lead team level product and engineering initiatives, and influence coding standards.
• Drive implementation of highly iterative development practices and technical solutions to maximize the pace of experimentation.
• Advocate for and implement best engineering practices, foster a learning culture, and influence strategic technical decisions.
• Ensure scalability, performance, and reliability of systems.

Requirements

• Strong product & business mindset: Proven ability to drive the building of successful products and/or platforms used by product teams.
• Domain Driven Design: Comprehensive system design skills with proven impact building new and refactoring existing large-scale systems.
• Proven technical foundation: Strong hands-on engineering background on the backend, strong experience with relational and non-relational databases and AWS infrastructure.
• Language and tool agnostic approach: Ready to pick the right tool for each challenge. Experience with building efficient, scalable, reliable backend systems in Python or Kotlin is a plus.
• System-level impact: Track record of influencing technical direction of your team and of effective collaboration with adjacent teams.
• Engineering culture & excellence: Demonstrated ability to shape and elevate engineering culture, methodologies, and best practices.

Nice to have

• Experience with Data and/or Multimedia.

Culture & Benefits

• Join a culture that champions both personal and professional growth.
• Every team member is empowered to inspire and make an impact.
• Focused on achieving meaningful outcomes.
• Be part of a movement that’s creating a healthier, happier world.

Hiring process

• Recruiter call.
• Live code review.
• System Design Interview.
• Meet the Hiring Manager.