.What's the opportunity?
This is a unique, entrepreneurial opportunity to be driving the digitalization of air freight and logistics in a fast-growing Series B company backed by leading Venture Capital firms including Index and Bessemer.
As a Backend Engineer, you will engage with diverse stakeholders, contributing to feature designs, architectural decisions, and ensuring the quality of the work.
You will dive deep into technical complexities, refining and writing tickets.
You will experience a culture of open communication, providing and receiving insightful feedback during retrospectives, one-on-ones, and 360s.
We are using Scrum.
If you have read the Scrum guide before or worked in a proper Scrum team, this already gives you a first idea about how we do things.
We expect you to live and represent the core values of commitment, courage, focus, openness, and respect.
We foster a positive, dynamic, hard-working, and feedback-heavy culture, with a strong dose of playfulness.
Join us now and transform the way airlines sell cargo!You can work from (almost) anywhere in EMEA.
We are a remote company, but regularly meet in person, too.A snapshot of what you will be doing here:You will work with technologies like Python 3, Flask, Javascript, Vue.Js, PostgreSQL, and Redis.
We are running a service-oriented architecture with synchronous gRPC endpoints and Celery for asynchronous workloads.
All of it runs in Kubernetes clusters deployed in Google Cloud Platform.We are constantly thinking about our users.
There are lots of people in the organization who are even closer to them, from customer service agents to account managers and of course our product team.
Nonetheless, it is our job to ask "why?" a lot, challenge assumptions, and bring our unique perspective as software engineers to the table.Our goal is to have continuous deployment pipelines and code that goes into production extremely fast.
We are able to deploy a number of times per day today, but there are still a few manual steps involved.
We are constantly expanding our automated tests and refining log messages, metrics, and alerts to move closer to the desired level of automation.We want to enable our co-workers to do their jobs as effectively as possible, so we are regularly building and extending self-service tools for the different roles in the organization.
While we already covered quite a bit of ground on this front, there is still a lot to build.
In the meantime, as engineers, we are providing hands-on support to make sure our users have an awesome experience.We thrive on proactivity.
Everyone is encouraged to share knowledge, offer constructive feedback, uplift colleagues, and step up with leadership qualities when the team requires it most.We are looking for individuals with:We're seeking passionate individuals with a few years of relevant experience.
The number of years isn't our primary focus; instead, we value what you've learned and achieved during your time in the field