Backend Engineer

About Diet Doctor

Regaining health in an unhealthy world requires thinking and acting differently. It requires putting your trust not in industry ads or dogma, but in science and nature. In the surprising power of your own body to return to health, given the right environment and evidence-based lifestyle changes.

Our mission is to find the most trustworthy science and practical knowledge about health, make it inspiring and simple to use, and accessible and free for everyone. We’re focusing on making low carb simple for people who could benefit, and who want to try it.

Our long-term purpose is empowering people everywhere to dramatically improve their health.

Your qualification

• You've a product mindset, care about end users and products they use 
• You've more than five years of experience working in a backend role
• You're interested in distributed systems 
• You've some experience with strongly-typed languages 
• You're comfortable with cross-functional tasks i.e. infrastructure, automation, and operations
• You're used to defining technical proposals, architectural decisions and driving initiatives across Engineering and the wider company
• You've strong experience interacting with APIs, writing end-to-end tests, and consider performance and security when building web applications
• You're a man or woman, gay or straight, identify as a man or woman or anything in between. You're of any ethnicity, religion, or age, and you may or may not have any disabilities

What we offer

• Meaningful work: The opportunity to build simple backend solutions to complex problems using new exciting technologies. Doing so will help us create world-class products that could dramatically improve the health of a billion people
• Meaningful relationships: Be part of a driven and kind culture filled with people who want to do good in the world. We try to optimize happiness by keeping track of employee satisfaction (Officevibe), using a minimalist workflow process (Kanban), minimizing meetings, and allowing for long uninterrupted blocks of work-time via our dedicated Engineering Focus Time™ slots
• Rapid growth: Big opportunities to take on challenging tasks and grow. We'll give you lots of responsibility but also the support you need to do great things and learn fast. We urge you to keep growing and the company will happily pay for courses or conferences you want to attend 
• Great compensation: We offer a market-level salary, overtime pay, office bonuses, and the opportunity to own a meaningful part of the company through our employee-stock-offering plan (no vesting period, and you're able keep the shares as long as you want). In addition, we provide relocation & visa support, free courses & books, free dinner if working late, access to our company apartment in central Stockholm, great company trips (we've previously travelled to the Caribbean, France, and Spain for example), and more

Additional details

Technologies we use:

At Diet Doctor you will get to work with a lot of exciting new technologies. We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies - but applicants are not required to have prior experience of all of them.

• Go is the primary language for writing services
• gRPC is our main RPC framework that connects services
• Kubernetes to schedule and run our workloads
• Honeycomb.io to instrument our services
• Google Cloud Platform and AWS - various cloud services
• Terraform
• MySQL, Postgres, PubSub
• GraphQL 
• Tech and tools you bring in