Lead Backend Engineer JustWatch Berlin, Germany €80,000 to €110,000 a year
March 2023
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Make independent decisions, prioritize what to build, and execute. We want you to own the whole toolchain, discuss our business needs with department heads and empower others to build the next generation of our marketing tools!
We deliver what we set out to deliver, and you will drive our future growth. To make this happen JustWatch allows for your maximal autonomy and our leadership is no-nonsense, deeply technical, and involved in their fields. Use this to transform your team into a more efficient structure. Propose new tools, hire people and give raises. Lastly, be hands-on without asking when your team needs support, and show them that you care.
This is why our tech punches far above its weight class:
Software is not a beauty contest for us - we prefer battle proven, easy to understand technologies. The team ensures stability by focusing on the most beneficial tests and monitoring we can create - not by ticking boxes. We iterate over our existing tools to improve them over time - yet we are also not afraid of big jumps. When it comes to the infrastructure we need, we build it specific to our needs; we don't leave that to someone else.
In short:
We write our software in Go (since the beginning)
We keep our data in Postgres databases
All services are hosted in our Kubernetes cluster
We use Google Cloud Services for our cloud needs
What we need from you
You solve complicated problems with simple solutions.
Technology is a means to an end for you, not an end in itself.
"Not invented here" Syndrom, is something you are aware of and prevent.
You distain bureaucracy and needles overheads
and you feel the same about meetings
This position is remote, but you have to life in a time zone with +/-3 hours around CET
or you are willing to relocate accordingly
VP of Engineering FINN Munich, Germany €100,000 to €125,000 a year
February 2022
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Reporting to the CTO, you build and lead up to 4 distributed engineering teams. You start from scratch and lay the foundation for best engineering practices. You ensure a vision and technical strategy catered to our US market together with your Tech Leads.
Why FINN?
The role is based in Munich, Germany. For candidates relocating to Munich, we provide full visa support.
With massive growth potential, FINN allows you to quickly develop and succeed in a highly motivating startup environment with ambitious challenges in cross-functional teams.
Excellent fixed salary, significant virtual equity share of the company, along with a yearly personal development budget of 3.000€.
Our team is known for loads of fun and we have and frequent team events to strengthen our connection.
At FINN you have complete autonomy over your choice of equipment, accessories, editors, tools, and technology.
Do you want to drive your own car with FINN? Get one with our employee discount program.
Your Responsibilities
Lead a world-class engineering team: You are responsible to build and lead your team. You will go the extra mile to coach and develop the team members on a daily basis.
Enable the growth of FINN: Together with your cross-functional engineering teams, you ship new features for our cloud platform. Thereby, you actively participate in delivering the best software possible for our customers and business units.
Strive for excellence: Strive to deliver the best possible user experience and to follow engineering best practices.
Build it, run it: Build features with a ‘build it, run it’ mindset and be responsible for testing, deploying, and monitoring your code. We believe in Serverless!
Contribution to FINN's overall strategy: As a part of the executive team you contribute to FINN's overall strategic planning to support its future growth.
Your Profile
3+ years of experience in a multi-team lead role, with more than 6 direct reports (30+ indirect reports).
Proven track record with 5+ years of software engineering experience in larger projects preferably B2B, B2C, or SaaS products.
Profound knowledge of React, Python, NodeJS or Go.
Passion for shipping CI/CD.
You are located in Brazil or +/- 3 hours of Eastern Standard Time (EST).
Ideally you graduated with a Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
Interested in Joining Our Fast Growing Startup? Please upload your CV and transcripts online. Andreas Wixler and Henriette Brune are looking forward to your application!
Equal Opportunities for Everyone FINN is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Benefits
Choose your work equipment, accessories, editors and tools
Located in heart of Munich (Prinzregentenplatz)
We love and live an agile work environment
We live a culture of trust and personal responsibility
Backend Golang Engineer Wallet Connect Remote / Berlin, Germany $85,000 to $100,000 a year
December 2021
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
WalletConnect is the open-source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps. Started four years ago, our mission is to make web3 accessible to everyone. Every month, millions of people use WalletConnect in over 200 integrations.
We’re looking for a backend golang engineer to join our team to build and scale our network. To help grow web3, we recently launched WalletConnect 2.0 with new features, including multi-chain support, a decentralized back-end, faster connections, and 10x performance and scalability. You will help us expand and scale our backend messaging infrastructure.
You will be responsible for building Golang messaging services. A main challenge is growing our services to scale for our millions of users across billions of websocket connections every month, as well as ensuring security and resiliency.
To help with your role, you will have the support of our devops team to deploy and manage our infrastructure, will work closely with our protocol and SDK teams, and have exposure to the full WalletConnect stack.
The ideal candidate is immersed in the best practices of golang at scale, messaging systems and Websockets.
Responsibilities:
Building a microservice architecture based on Golang with scaling in mind
Work with protocols such as Websockets, gRPC
Help with monitoring by creating metrics with Prometheus and Grafana
Develop unit and integration tests for core business logic
Work closely with our devops team to manage and scale our infrastructure
Must have:
3+ years professional experience in software development at least one modern programming language, including Golang, TypeScript, C++, Java, or Rust.
At least 1 year of professional Golang experience.
Experience using Postgres, AWS, with demonstrable experience with systems engineering and automation.
You have experience with network programming or distributed systems development
Experience working on products at scale
Nice to have:
Experience working on systems optimisation
Experience with k8s or Nomad a plus
Desire to learn more about Blockchain technologies or experience with PoS systems.
Familiarity with operations/SRE and the concept of infrastructure as code
Websocket experience
Benefits
What WalletConnect offers:
Fully remote position with flexible timezone (CET/EST preferred)
As (Senior) Software Engineer (m/f/d) you will be involved in every layer of the technology, including the robot control system, the video streaming system, our machine learning side as well as the cloud infrastructure. In addition, you will be essential in defining the foundations of our product and culture.
The profile:
You have relevant work experience in fast moving environments like a start-up, technology companies, or from technical university programs
You have got a strong knowledge in C or C++ programming, proficient Linux experience and you are always curious to learn new technologies
Fluent verbal and written English language skills
Affinity for autonomous mobility technology
You think big and like to build something, you are solution oriented and like to get stuff done
You enjoy working in a fast-moving environment
At the same time you are a true team player and we will enjoy working with you
Nice to have’s:
Video and audio encoding (e.g. H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC) and multimedia systems with deep understanding of codecs for optimisations
Background in mobile networks (e.g. 4G / LTE) over the top services, real time services
General networking (e.g. VPNs, TCP/IP), packet routing, network performance tuning
Robot Operating System (ROS)
Experience with embedded systems and the Nvidia SDK
HW/SW integration into vehicles (e.g. functional safety, CAN, etc.)
We obviously don't expect anyone to check all these nice to have's!
Our offering:
Change how people move in big urban areas while making car ownership obsolete
A competitive compensation package & unlimited vacation
Involvement in one of the most exciting tech projects in Europe
An open-minded and fun work environment
Be surrounded by a highly committed and very experienced team
Relocation services to Berlin - It doesn’t matter where you currently live!
Note: Ree provides an equal opportunity to all candidates. All candidates will be considered for employment regardless of age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, marital status, medical condition, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation.