(Senior) Backend Python Developer

About Vimcar

As one of Berlin's most successful SaaS companies, Vimcar is redefining business mobility. By combining live car data and a set of cloud-based applications, we offer real-time insight into vehicle activity to help our customers reduce the operational costs for their fleets.

By serving freelancers, small and medium-sized companies, Vimcar already has connected more than 100,000+ cars and we are incredibly proud to serve the companies who are the backbone of our economy: the electricians, the doctors, the plumbers, the retailers, the construction workers - everyone whose business is on the road.

Headquartered in Berlin, more than 200 employees from 30+ countries are working towards our mission to build Europe's leading fleet tech company. We do not believe in hyper-growth at any cost and burning loads of Venture Capital but in sustainable growth driven by smart people and innovative ideas. If you are not celebrating funding rounds, but value a great customer experience and passionate colleagues: Vimcar might be the right place for you!

Important information regarding COVID-19: the safety of our employees is crucial to us. Therefore, you can expect the application process and the start of your employment with us to be remote until further notice.

Position

The Role 

• Within your team, you maintain and evolve our growing web applications while we continuously grow our user base
• In collaboration with other engineering teams, you design and evolve RESTful APIs, which serve our mobile and web clients and external partners
• You embrace DevOps culture, relying on our highly automated continuous integration and continuous delivery infrastructure 
• Collaboration with product managers - you actively contribute to the planning by specifying technical tickets, and you assess requirements, dependencies and feature feasibility with an MVP mindset
• Knowledge sharing is engrained in our culture, you will contribute to documentation and actively participate in code reviews and technical discussions

Tech Stack

• Most of our applications are written in Python, based on proven frameworks and platforms like Flask & Celery
• We focus on the application layer! Our cloud-native Service-Oriented-Architecture is making use of managed AWS services like RDS, DynamoDB, ECS, Lambda, SNS, SQS or Kinesis
• API-first! All clients communicate with our backend via RESTful, JSON-based APIs, fully documented by OpenAPI/Swagger
• Without exception: All deployments are fully automated and based on Docker or AWS Lambda
• Data goes where it is handled most efficiently. We rely on PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Kinesis, Redis and ElasticSearch

Your qualification

• Strong Python knowledge, and experience with common frameworks and libraries such as Flask, Celery, FastAPI or similar 
• Experience with scalable applications and the concepts of service-oriented or microservices architecture
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB (or similar)
• Experience with CI/CD
• Experience with AWS (or any other Cloud provider)
• Initiative, ownership & curiosity

What we offer

• Why should you join us? At Vimcar, you can take an established product-led company with a focus on having real and happy users, in a company with meaningful recurring revenue
• You will be part of a team, working on challenging topics while bouncing off ideas, Including a company which is genuinely flexible, and with minimal hierarchy
• Great work-life balance - no on-calls or having to work outside your work hours
• Modern tech stack solving complex user problems
• You will own your role, with no micromanagement, a supportive team and no excessive meetings you have the time and space to invest in doing your best work 
• A permanent full-time position at a successful and established business with an international team
• Mental health support: Premium access to headspace for day-to-day care, and access to Nilo.health platform if you could use a session with a psychologist
• 29 paid vacation days per year
• 2 months of remote work to work from any country or continent you want!
• The choice of a range of Company Benefits, such as an Urban Sports Club membership, Plants club, JobRad, or a BVG ticket grant
• Hybrid setup: Though we have a beautiful office in the heart of Berlin, however, how much time you’d like to work remotely vs. onsite depends on you and your team
• Access to company car sharing - for personal trips
• A family-friendly environment with paid parental leave and plenty of flexibility to take care of what matters most
• Dog-friendly office so your furry friends are never home alone
• Relocation assistance with a great team to support your move to Berlin