Backend Software Engineer

About Woolsocks

Woolsocks is a financial services application that empowers its members to make the most of their money while leading the way for socially conscious behaviour. Woolsocks is built around multiple themes and offers various financially related services.

Today there are endless opportunities to save money, but it’s easy to miss out on them. We believe technology can help you spend less and save more. That’s why we created Woolsocks. A smart app that helps you find personalized saving opportunities that suit you best and help put more money in your Woolsocks.

Position

We are looking for a 5+ years experienced Software Engineer who will be responsible for designing and developing a highly decoupled micro services systems that can handle complicated business flow and can interact with various 3rd party systems at scale. In this role, you will have the opportunity to build from the ground up with an obsession towards making these experiences memorable for the customers.   

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and test software services (Java/Kotlin or Go)
• Manage availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of Woolsocks Software Services
• Analyze Software performance and system tunning
• Be doing bug fixing and write monitoring and detection tools to prevent recurrence
• Work in “microservice mesh” application development and Agile environment
• Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods for operating services and systems
• Continuous learning and researching for identifying shortcomings and opportunities for software services improvements
• Have fun with your team

Your qualification

Being an expert in:

• One or more of: Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, C++
• Data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, complexity analysis, secure coding best practices and remediation
• Designing, building and maintaining large-scale, high-performance systems and frameworks
• Object-oriented concepts and systems design patterns
• Analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems
• Tackling problems of load, scale, and optimizations of complex large-scale deployments
• Modern server scaling technologies on Linux (e.g., async, non-blocking I/O, multithreading)  

Being experienced in:

• Architecture and design of cloud-scale distributed systems
• IP networking, network analysis, performance and application issues
• Event-driven architecture and technologies
• Message-Brokers(e.g. RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ)and Event-Streaming (e.g. Kafka) solutions
• RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or distributed NoSQL Database systems (e.g. MongoDB, Redis, Memcached)
• Automated CI/CD solutions
• High availability and business continuity principles
• Cloud technologies (preferably GCP)
• Containerization and container orchestration technologies (preferably K8s)
• One or more of: Python, Shell, Perl

What we offer

Besides a competitive remuneration package, there’s room for professional development and growth. We offer a flexible and open working environment. There is a strong focus on team building and we have an ambitious and entrepreneurial mindset. You won’t find here boring hierarchies or pointless meetings, we are bright and fast, and we know how to really target our purposes and go for them.

Because you will work in a small team which is closely aligned to the business, you'll get a lot of responsibility and opportunities and you will play an important role in growing the company. You’ll be able to do many different things from the start and be creative in how you want to do your work.

Within Woolsocks we work with driven, ambitious, talented and nice people and offer as much flexibility, freedom and responsibility as possible. This means that, within limits, you will be able to choose how, when and where you work your hours.

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of Woolsocks.