Software Developer: Backend focus

About Ecosia

Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees, is one of the world's largest social businesses and the first B Corporation in Germany. As part of our mission to cultivate a more environmentally, socially and economically sustainable world, we want to reverse the tide of deforestation by planting a billion native trees. So far our 15 million users have planted over 100 million trees. Our reach is expanding as we continue to grow and plant trees worldwide!

Position

• Write code that touches all parts of the stack with a focus on the backend
• Own and develop our Go and Python codebases, as well as help with the migration of our backend code. You will be working with integrating new APIs, A/B testing and also building microservices that will enhance our search results
• Embrace a service-oriented mindset and support and guide architectural decisions
• Be willing and open to facilitate meetings and take a lead on projects
• Join a supportive, cross-functional team and mentor more junior developers
• Help us improve our existing products and drive the inception and implementation of new ones – all to make our users happy (and to plant trees!)
• Collaborate closely with our product and engineering managers and other engineers across all teams

Your qualification

• You have 5+ years experience with backend infrastructure and you know how to build and deploy your services to a production environment
• You have a deep interest in building clean, maintainable and scalable code, and are able to explain it to others and you have experience supporting architectural decisions
• You have production experience or equivalent knowledge of Go and are comfortable with containerized environments (e.g. Docker)
• You own the projects you create from beginning to production and you believe that it also means caring about testing it and monitoring it long-term
• You share our core values and ways of working
• You can speak and write English fluently (German not required)
• You are located in or willing to relocate to Berlin, Germany

Will be a plus

• Good knowledge of Python
• Experience with grpc and protobuf
• Experience with some of the tools we use (currently using Docker, Kubernetes, Github, CircleCI)

What we offer

• Relocation assistance and visa application support
• Learning days, Hackathons, offsite events, conference participation
• Instead of working to earn an additional million to your CEO’s annual bonus, you'll add millions of trees for the planet
• Your work will be used by millions of people across the globe daily 
• Outstanding flexibility in terms of working hours (part -time:32 hours, also possible) and location
  *If during covid-19 you work remotely, you need to be available during our core working hours (at least 10-16 Berlin time/CET)
• Two ‘no-meeting’ days per week and open for periods of remote work
• 30 vacation days
• A fair compensation package that reflects your skills and experience
• Subsidized public transport ticket, gym membership or your monthly green-electricity bill
• Additional perks include weekly team lunches, free vegetarian/vegan snacks, and drinks