About the role
As komoot’s next backend engineer, you’ll be joining a highly-motivated team of tech enthusiasts. We’re focused on impact, that’s why we love to find simple and smart solutions to complex problems, and embrace modern technologies to face tough challenges.
As backend engineers, we enable users to explore the outdoors by rapidly creating and operating high quality APIs that serve as a gateway to our features, used by our client apps (Web, Android, iOS, GPS devices, ... ) as well as many third parties such as Garmin, Wahoo, and Bosch.
Join us for an opportunity to collaborate closely with other Backend Developers in the Backend Developer Productivity team to create great developer experience and speed for all Backend Developers.
Ready for your next adventure?
What you will do
You will work inside the Backend Developer Productivity Team, supporting them on their mission.
In order to do that you will:
1. Actively contribute to finding technical solutions
2. Proactively give feedback on planning road maps
3. Iterate fast on feedback and changes
4. Design and build our systems in a way so that they run with reasonable costs
You will:
5. Develop end-to-end solutions including concept, road maps, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance
6. Leverage kotlin and a lot of AWS services in order to efficiently build the solution
7. Collaborate with your backend partners to define and build systems and tooling that are easy to understand and integrate
8. Ensure the reliability and availability of the systems through robust testing, monitoring, and maintenance
9. Be part of the on-call rotation we share in the backend team in order to provide our users with available systems
Why you will love it
10. Your work will contribute to helping millions of people enjoy lovely outdoor experiences.
11. We’ve been a remote-working company since 2017, meaning: We are remote by default, have frameworks and systems in place, and know how to do it well.
12. You can work from wherever you want, be it a beach, the mountains, your house, or anywhere else that lies in any time zone between UTC-1 and UTC+3.
13. We have your costs covered for your co-working space membership or your work-from-home office setup and the latest devices and equipment to do your best work.
14. You’ll become an essential part of our diverse and international team with colleagues based in 20+ countries across Europe.
15. 38 paid days off (inclusive public holidays) – you are free to take those days whenever it suits you, including a well-deserved winter holiday break.
16. We love seeing people grow. That's why each team member gets €2,000 and 3 additional days to spend on professional development each year. Classes, conferences, books – your choice!
Requirements
You’ll be successful in this role if you
17. Are highly self-driven, responsible, and keen to learn and improve
18. Are a strong team player and a strong communicator
19. Have 2+ years of professional experience in developing backend systems
20. Have 2+ years of professional experience with managed cloud services, ideally using AWS
21. Have 2+ years of professional experience in a JVM language, ideally kotlin
22. Have 1+ years of professional experience in Python
23. Appreciate the outdoors, nature, and being active
24. Bonus: Have knowledge of GIS
Not sure if you meet all requirements above? Don't sweat it – if you think you're the right person anyway, we'd love to hear from you!
Benefits
Curious about how we work?
25. Core Communication time between 10 am - 3 pm (Berlin Time). We know people have different lifestyles, which is why we have flexible working hours with core time for synchronous interaction. You can organize your workday in the way that best suits you, your family, and your needs.
26. We work on a project basis in cross functional teams to ensure that we collaborate on our goals, move forward smoothly with open lines of communication, and achieve results as a team.
27. Every Monday morning, we have a whole-company presentation where you hear about projects across the business, inspire each other, and share great work.
28. We connect in person at three whole-company gatherings each year in beautiful locations. You can check out this playlist to find out more about how we stay close while being remote.
29. We use tools like Trello, Slack, Miro, Zoom, and Google Workspace on a daily basis to stay connected, collaborate easily, and manage projects.