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About Bending Spoons
Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Far from being satisfied, we look with excitement at the future, and believe that through smart and hard work we’ll accomplish much more.
Position
Our sizable and growing engineering organization presents us with a major opportunity to unlock value through improving our level of automation. Moreover, our apps being used by tens of millions of people every month and downloaded hundreds of thousands of times per day result in enormous amounts of traffic, which, coupled with our insatiable striving to optimize our performance, makes so that we end up dealing with difficult (and exciting!) scalability and data management problems. Hence, we’re looking for a passionate and bright expert in server infrastructure and automation to bring our game to the next level.
A few examples of your responsibilities:
- Work closely with our Software Engineers and Data Scientists to identify the infrastructural needs of the company, and take the lead in defining the plan to fulfil them
- Architect and implement world-class deployment processes and systems, also counting on our substantial software engineering firepower. Your goal will be total, flawless automation
- Set up the data storage, retrieval, and processing infrastructure that our massive inflow of data and our extensive efforts in data science and analytics deserve
- Solve challenging scalability problems in close collaboration with our Backend Engineers
- Make sure the performance of our servers is appropriately monitored at all times
- Stay informed on new, relevant technologies and test the promising ones to make sure we don’t miss out on game-changing opportunities to improve our infrastructure
Your qualification
- Relevant expertise. You know at least one cloud platform inside out (bonus points if it’s GCP, but others, such as AWS, work for us as well). You’re proficient with Kubernetes and Docker. You have a very good understanding of modern Unix systems. You also know your way around other key DevOps tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Chef, etc.). Preferably, you can effectively configure modern databases (Redis, MongoDB, etc.)
- Passion for the topic. You have a long-standing, proven passion for server infrastructure and automation
- You’re a quick and deep learner. You can investigate and effectively pick up new concepts on your own, especially when it comes to technology. Additionally, you don’t stop at the surface, but find enjoyment in exploring what lies beneath and becoming a master of your trade
- Curiosity and initiative. You love exploring and you’re entrepreneurial in seeking out new opportunities and testing new ideas and technologies of your own accord. You don’t just wait to be told what to do all the time
- Drive. You’re energetic, hard-working, and persevere through adversity until the job is done, and done well. You get turned on by getting results, and always aim for excellence in what you do
- Attention to detail. You care to get the small things right as well as the big ones. You’re meticulous in ensuring that your work is of the highest quality
- Diligence, organization. Conscientious and organized, you can blindly be entrusted with big responsibilities as well as small, more menial tasks
- Humbleness. You’re down to earth, eager to listen to people’s feedback and constructive criticism, and ready to get your hands dirty with whatever the team needs to succeed
- Caring. You find fulfilment in helping others be more efficient and less frustrated with their work, and you’re a patient listener of their needs
- Proficient in English. You read and write proficiently, and speak at a conversational level in English
What we offer
- Huge impact. You’ll be instrumental to ensuring the perfect working of software being used by tens of millions of people all around the world and processing enormous amounts of data
- Talented, knowledgeable colleagues. You’ll get the chance to learn (and teach to!) some of the brightest and most skilled people you’ll ever meet. Your talent is going to blossom here
- Cool tech stack. We strive to use the best, most modern tools and technologies, and when they fall short of our expectations we invent our own. It’s a geek’s paradise
- Own products. We don’t work for clients, but only develop our own apps. Freed from politics, we can move fast and be daring
- Fun, young environment. We have near-zero hierarchy and a very relaxed workplace. Also, we’re 28 years old on average and often hang out together, so you might actually end up making new friends!
- Top-notch office. Our office is amazing! We designed it ourselves and it goes beyond excellent functionality by offering all sorts of amenities, such as foosball tables and gaming consoles
- International reach. Our audience is wildly international. Our company language is English. We’re a global reality
- Compensation & Benefits. Generous, top of market, and moreover can grow very rapidly and include stock options, depending on your performance. Breakfast, lunch, and snacks are paid-for, when you work from the office. You’ll receive the latest Mac, iPhone, and wireless noise-cancelling Bose headset