Backend Engineer

About Sniptech

Sniptech provides a single API for all personal finance services.

We provide a single, intuitive, multi-purpose API solution that empowers you to pick and choose the right tools to improve your customers’ experience and help them to get more out of their budget.

As a gateway to personal finance services, we meet the challenge of the ever-evolving digitized consumer experience by providing a secure, one- stop shop API on customer platforms.

Position

If you think that one programming language is not enough, feel like the best technology is the one that fits the purpose, have a self-starter attitude and tech-driven curiosity, know that a good opinion must be shared, you can proceed with reading.

We are looking for an 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.

You will:

• Design, implement and test software services (Java/Kotlin or Go)
• Manage availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of APC Software Services
• Software performance analyze and system tunning
• Bug fixing and writing 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

What will help you succeed:

Being an expert in:

• One or more of: Java, Kotlin, Scala, C++, Go 
• 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, multi-threading)

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

• Competitive remuneration package
• Possibility to earn a performance-based bonus
• A friendly dynamic working environment, challenging job within a fast forward moving company
• Personal development focus and support
• 25 paid leave days 
• Being part of an international team 
• Being part of a growing company where you can develop your skills and network
• We 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

Additional details

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