We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our Mobile Apps Team, bring new features to life, and support the evolution of our services and products. You will work closely with the product owner, area architect, and your team members to clarify business needs and technical requirements and define how to best support them. In close collaboration with other teams, your team will introduce new features and improvements to the mobile apps to provide an even better experience for more than 11 millions of our customers!
As our Senior Backend Software Engineer:
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You will work with your Team and Product Owner in a challenging Agile environment, collaborating closely with other teams.
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You will participate in the team's technical/architectural discussions and decisions.
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You will develop and continuously deliver applications for one of Europe's most successful pet e-commerce platforms.
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You will participate in the complete software development life cycle from discovery through coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
You will learn and grow your skills daily, striving for mastery using state-of-the-art technologies and practices such as AWS, Microservices, Docker, and more.
At the Mobile Apps, our primary responsibility is the iOS and Android apps, including the services that power them. This includes all aspects of the customer journey, from onboarding, personalised home feed, wishlist, search and catalog to cart and checkout. As a rapidly growing channel, the Mobile Apps are crucial to the company's success.
Here are several aspects of our team and work environment that contribute to a positive and fulfilling experience:
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We work in self-organised teams following Scrum methodology, respecting and valuing everyone´s opinion.
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We learn from each other and share knowledge through pair programming, code reviews, and many training opportunities.
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We deliver value by developing new features, maintaining existing products, and improving all the infrastructure we need, so we would also like to have a colleague who is cross-functional.
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We are committed to delivering high-quality products and believe that continuous delivery, clean code, and a DevOps mindset are key to achieving this goal.
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Our team values a friendly and collaborative environment, and we greatly encourage open communication and teamwork. We believe in a team approach and do not assign blame; instead, we work together to build and maintain the system.
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We embrace diversity, having colleagues from over 50 countries. This means our working language is English.
These are some of the technologies/frameworks/practices we use:
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Python
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Java 11+, Spring framework
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CI/CD with Jenkins pipeline
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InfluxDB, Grafana, ELK stack
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Docker, Kubernetes
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Amazon Web Services and cloud deployments (S3, SNS, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, etc.), using tools such as Terraform or AWS CLI
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Git, Scrum, Pair Programming, Peer Reviewing
Your responsibilities
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Participate in solution investigation, estimations, planning, and alignment with other teams.
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Design, implement, deliver, and support backend solutions (restful web services) using micro-services architecture.
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Work closely with other teams to integrate their solutions into the mobile apps.
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Promote and implement test automation (e.g., unit tests, integration tests, e2e tests and performance tests)
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Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, development, and deployment.
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Deploy applications on the cloud using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS and Terraform.
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Work closely with the team in an agile and collaborative environment. This will involve code reviews, pair programming, knowledge sharing, and incident coordination.
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Maintain existing applications and reduce technical debt.