Software Engineer

You will work within our Product Engineering team to define the best technical solution, directly impacting the shape of our products, bringing new ideas to life. You'll think through all the details of the implementation, as well as different scenarios of product growth and scalability

Recruitment process:

• An assignment. If hired, your effort during the recruiting process will be rewarded with a bonusthis is not about free work.
• 2 discussions, one of which is face to face and includes a live task.

Responsibilities:

• Define the best technical solution and infrastructure
• Create scalable micro-services and APIs architecture
• Ensure performance, reliability and scalability
• Use your tech expertise to proactively find solutions to solve complex issues, understanding and considering the business needs
• Prototype quickly to solve thorny use cases, without getting stuck in theory, as we're prone to shipping early and often
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code
• Identify areas of opportunity and improvement

What's in it for you:

• Pioneering work at the forefront of Big Data, Infrastructure and Machine Learning that sometimes means relying on academic papers as our only formal guiding tools in moving onwards
• The chance to shape an original product in a fast growing company, backed by VC investors
• A merit-based, no BS, value-oriented and particularly collaborative work environment
• Fair compensation, ESOP and upward salary growth based on performance.
• Groundbreaking professional challenges and the autonomy to try stuff for the very first time, no matter how experienced you are
• The promise to use the right tool for the job to be able to channel your efforts on what cant be compensated for the best use of your skills and abilities.
• The space to try new things out (your way) paired with the freedom to make reasoned decisions and own them

What we expect from you in return:

• High speed and uncompromising quality in your work
• A growth mindset, able to capitalize on unprecedented contexts through your skills and abilities
• An appetite to grapple with a variety of technical challenges
• The ability to quickly and effectively evaluate technical tradeoffs and translate them into relevant scenarios
• Consistent performance over time coordinated with a matching set of values
• Strong problem solving skills that enhance the way you deal with the tension between brief and shipping
• Aversion to the idea of any customer or colleague struggling with what you delivered
• High tolerance for ambiguity, marked by your ambition to push forward with incomplete information
• Resilience, especially in front of failure, that is always paired with pioneering work

Your qualifications:

• Experience in web development using Node.js (Typescript is preferred) or Java (version 8 or higher)
• Experience in designing and maintaining secure & scalable REST based APIs, with a focus on Microservices Architecture
• Experience with Elasticsearch or other similar distributed search engines
• Excellent knowledge of relational databases, comfort with both modern relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience in designing and implementing software testing strategies (Unit Tests, Integration Tests, End-to-end Test, Regression Tests, Performance Tests)
• Experience with cloud environments like AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure
• Knowledge of CI/CD principles and processes. Previous experience with Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins or Travis CI is a plus
• Previous knowledge of Kubernetes and operating Kubernetes clusters is a plus