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Weekend Backend Engineer
Location
Portugal
Posted
95 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Weekend Backend Engineer
Sporty Group
• Work across a Friday-Tuesday shift pattern (including the weekend) • Develop highly-scalable mobile internet backends for millions of users • Work with Project Managers and other development team members to determine new features and user stories needed in new / revised applications or large/complex development projects • Participate in code reviews with peers and managers to ensure that each increment adheres to original vision as described in the user story and all standard resource libraries and architecture patterns as appropriate • Respond to support calls for applications in production for quick diagnosis and repair to keep things running smoothly for users • Participate in all team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstration and team retrospectives • Mentoring less experienced team members
Job Requirements
- Minimum of 3+ Years within a relevant role
- Be based within Europe or Latin America
- Preferred experience in Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Data and iBATIS
- Strong experience with highly-scalable web backends
- Experience designing highly transactional systems
- Advanced proficiency in Object Oriented Design (OOD) and analysis
- Advanced proficiency in application of analysis / design engineering functions
- Advanced proficiency in application of non-functional software qualities such as resiliency and maintainability
- Advanced proficiency in modern behavior-driven testing techniques
- Deep understanding of Microservices
- Proficient in SQL
- Expert knowledge of application development with technologies like RabbitMQ, MySQL, Redis etc
- Strong experience with container and cloud solutions such as Docker, Kubernetes and AWS Cloud
- An ability to work independently
- Excellent communication skills in English
Benefits
- Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability
- A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
- 28 days paid annual leave
- Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this
- Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
- Top of the line equipment
- Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities
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• Develop highly-scalable mobile internet backends for millions of users • Work with Project Managers and other development team members to determine new features and user stories needed in new / revised applications or large/complex development projects • Participate in code reviews with peers and managers to ensure that each increment adheres to original vision as described in the user story and all standard resource libraries and architecture patterns as appropriate • Respond to support calls for applications in production for quick diagnosis and repair to keep things running smoothly for users • Participate in all team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstration and team retrospectives • Mentoring less experienced team members
• Develop highly-scalable mobile internet backends for millions of users • Work with Project Managers and other development team members to determine new features and user stories needed in new / revised applications or large/complex development projects • Participate in code reviews with peers and managers to ensure that each increment adheres to original vision as described in the user story and all standard resource libraries and architecture patterns as appropriate • Respond to support calls for applications in production for quick diagnosis and repair to keep things running smoothly for users • Participate in all team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstration and team retrospectives • Mentoring less experienced team members
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SynthesiaCreate studio-quality videos with AI avatars and voiceovers in 140+ languages. Trusted by Reuters, BBC, Amazon and more.
• Work end-to-end on our client application written in React and our monolithic backend written in Python. • Have sole ownership of projects that span months, requiring the ability to break a problem down into small steps. • Work directly with the product manager, expected to ideate and focus on the commercial problem being solved. • Evaluate your own work to understand the impact your features have on our commercial objectives.
• Engineers on our team today: • Work primarily in TypeScript • Build APIs in Node.js • Support teammates, especially with new challenges • Autonomously solve challenges • Think from user’s perspective • Value clear and frequent communication • Enjoy being a generalist • Be naturally curious • Accountable to each other • Good judgement of when to ship


