As a Senior Back-end Developer, you will engage in 6-week mission-driven development cycles, working independently within a team to deliver high-quality code. You will develop and enhance RESTful and RPC-based APIs, create reusable code, optimize applications for performance and scalability, and implement security measures. Additionally, you will design data storage solutions, build integrations with help desk and analytics platforms, conduct code reviews, and write automated tests to ensure code quality.
Our quickly expanding, international team has embraced the innovative mindset from day one. We are looking to expand our Engineering team and seeking candidates for a hybrid role based in Estonia.
Responsibilities
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- Mission-driven development with a 6-week development cycle
- High level of independence and trust, you decide how the implementation is done
- Working independently in a team and delivering high-quality code in a timely manner
- Building and improving our RESTful and RPC-based APIs to be consumed by various applications (and end-users!)
- Building reusable code and libraries for future use
- Optimizing the application for maximum performance and scalability
- Implementing security and data protection functionalities
- Designing and implementing data storage solutions
- Building out integrations with help desk and analytics platforms
- Performing code reviews and providing feedback to your peers
- Writing automated tests
Qualifications
- At least 5 years of experience with a focus on back-end development
- Experience with programming languages like Go, Python, or Java
- Strong understanding of SQL and database technologies
- Working experience with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and Docker
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services
- Comfortable with working remotely in English across departments
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills
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