Backend / Full Stack Developer

About Smartly.io

At its heart, Smartly.io is a product company. We’re building tools that help our customers work smarter and grow their businesses.

We want to be the best in the world at what we do—building a world-class product and service for our customers. The only way to succeed is to stay humble yet ambitious. We ask for and act on candid feedback to learn continuously from both our customers and teammates. We don’t rest on our laurels, there’s always room to improve.

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Position

Smartly.io is looking for an experienced Backend Developers to multiple Full Stack development teams, who can ship highly scalable web applications in multiple technology stacks. You'll be responsible for developing a data intensive, highly available web application running on a microservices architecture.

You'll work in a highly autonomous self-organizing development team that owns its roadmap, and chooses its own technologies. You’ll develop the product at a fast pace and in close cooperation with the end users—the largest online marketers globally.

See what we have been building so far at smartly.io/blog/how-engineers-work-at-smartlyio

Your qualification

• 4+ years of experience as a professional software developer
• Ability to write maintainable and testable code, while navigating both functional programming and object-oriented programming patterns
• Knowledge on how the web works and you are familiar with REST API design, HTTP fundamentals, web frontends and security practices
• Care for how software is developed in teams and are always looking to reach perfection
• Drive to continuously learn new things by reading, building hobby projects or testing new technologies on the job. You should also enjoy teaching others around you 
• A pragmatic mindset. We’re working on an existing system, and our customers’ business depends on it

Will be a plus

• Experience in SQL, building complex queries and procedures
• Worked with highly scalable distributed systems, consisting of multiple microservices, deployed to hundreds of nodes
• Built large-scale data processing pipelines

What we offer

• Recharge yourself with full 5 weeks of paid annual leave
• Healthcare insurance/service 
• Paid parental leave
• Wellness and personal development (books, conference tickets, etc.) reimbursement
• Work with the nicest teammates in a self-organizing team
• Opportunity to travel to meet customers, Facebook and Smartlies at our offices around the world
• Enjoy weekly breakfasts and quarterly dinners with the team

Additional details

Technologies we work with

Each team makes decisions about their technologies while keeping in mind the operational and cross-team collaboration aspects. We work with a bunch of different tech, but each team only needs to know a subset of them.

We don’t expect anyone to know all of the technologies beforehand, but knowing some of them is helpful. In general, we’re trying to get new team members to play with their strengths and choose their first team accordingly.

Here’s a list of the backend technologies we work with:

• Node.js with TypeScript, Koa, Objection.js and PostgreSQL
• Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL and Cassandra
• Kotlin (JVM), Akka HTTP, Akka Streams, PostgreSQL and ElasticSearch
• PHP, MongoDB
• Python, NumPy, Flask

On the frontend, the story is a bit simpler: we started with an AngularJS codebase, but we’ve been working on converting the most important views to React and Redux. We use Flow for type-checking when we’ve been adding types to existing codebases, and TypeScript when starting fresh projects.

What to expect from our recruitment process

1. First meeting: we want to know who you are and what motivates you, before diving deeper into your tech skills. This is also an opportunity for you to learn more about Smartly.io
2. Technical interview: we’ll discuss areas relevant to you ranging from frontend development to networks, security, and development methods. We’re trying to get a clear overview of your skills and where you could learn more
3. Coding exercise: we’ll be pair programming in Node environment to make sure that you can also code. Previous experience with Node.js or JavaScript is not required (the session will be very interactive) 
4. After that the final interview with our Chief Product Officer and your team lead, meet your future team to learn what they are working with