Backend Engineer (Python)

*Please note you must be based in Spain to be considered for this fully remote role.

We are looking for a mid level backend engineer to join our growing team. You’ll become a core part of our expanding, dynamic team, which is responsible for developing scalable product features using modern development patterns.

You’ll be someone who loves innovating and problem-solving, and gets a kick out of making systems work efficiently at an increasingly larger scale.

Our current backend technology stack is written mostly in Python, and you should have good industry experience writing production code in it - but we also embrace change and your experience will help to shape our technology strategy, helping to adapt our architecture as we grow.

You’ll get the opportunity to utilise a variety of technologies to pave the future of Bark whilst enhancing how we solve complex online problems in cutting-edge areas such as personalisation, AI assisted analytics and engagement. You’ll be involved in every aspect of the process: idea generation, business analysis, technical and architectural design through to implementation.

Responsibilities

• Work with development teams and product managers to conceptualise and implement software solutions

• Build elegant and performant APIs and handlers

• Develop and manage well-functioning datastores and services

• Proactively propose and implement improvements to the codebase

• Mentor other engineers to support their growth

• Design and code solutions for systems with a high volume of transactions a second

• Work with other high performing departments to revolutionise the product

Required Skills and Experience

• Expertise and extensive experience using Python in a production environment

• Defining, implementing and testing:

  • APIs

  • Event Handlers

  • Business logic

• Integrations with 3rd party systems

• Production SQL and NoSQL database experience

• Using Docker in production, ideally with Kubernetes or Fargate/ECS/EKS

• Experience building, maintaining, testing and documenting features to be used by other developers both internally and externally

• Strong organisational skills

• Ability to achieve goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment

Desired skills and experience

• Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem.

• Experience with cloud monitoring systems, such as Datadog

• Experience with ElasticSearch, MongoDB or similar

• Interest in AI as a tool for increasing developer efficiency

Perks and Benefits

• 25 days of paid holiday, with extra days added at 3 and 5 years of service.

• Fully remote working, plus up to 20 days each year to work from anywhere in the world.

• Cobee wellbeing platform with flexible benefits: meal vouchers, travel vouchers, gym memberships, private medical etc..

• A €250 allowance towards essential home office technology to help you stay connected and productive.