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Senior Backend Developer
Location
Sweden
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Developer
Forza Football
• You will work in a small group of skilled developers and designers dedicated to building top-tier products for users all over the world with access to a former Elixir Core team member. • You will be working on the services that power our mobile apps—from the API that serves millions of clients to the push notification system that keeps our users up-to-date on their favourite football teams and competitions.
Job Requirements
- 6+ years of experience with Elixir and OTP: you have developed applications for production use
- An interest in systems that are highly available, resilient, and run at scale
- Experience with high-level system architecture design
- Sense of craftsmanship: you strive for code quality and maintainability, write tests as part of your coding routine
- Knowledge about caching strategies, message queues and service-oriented architectures
- An understanding of setting up infrastructure and managing Linux servers
- Experience with deployment tooling, monitoring, alerting, data visualization, load testing and/or live system debugging
- Strong articulation skills
- Be a team player, have attention to detail, and be not afraid to share unconventional ideas
- Good oral and written English, as Forza Football operates globally, and many employees are international.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Work wherever you're most productive
- Six weeks paid vacation
- Computer and gadget setup needed for work
- Conference visits with accommodation and travel expenses paid
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