Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Blueground, Greece
Job Description
At Blueground, our vision is to make people feel at home wherever they choose to live. For us, that means ensuring our guests have the peace of mind, flexibility amp; confidence they need to explore life’s latest adventure.
We’ve grown a lot since our founding in 2013, having raised more than $258m+ in funding, to date -- and that’s just the beginning. We’re now hosting guests in more than 8,000 homes in 20+ cities, with an aim to hit 50 cities by 2025.
Our vision comes to life through our ways of working. For our 800+ member team located across 15 countries, we’ve created a culture of collaboration, inclusiveness, and opportunity.
We believe our people should have the power to choose their preferred way to work. Depending on the role’s requirements, team members can choose to work full time in one of our offices, work fully remote, or choose a hybrid model between the two.
We are driven by our core values. To our team, Time is our most important resource. Excellence isn’t simply a standard, but an exciting way to look at life. We Care deeply about our guests and colleagues. Our relationships are built around Transparency, which builds trust and improves communication.
We’re shaping the future of living, and we want you to be part of that journey.
We are looking for a talented SeniorBackendSoftware Engineer to join our Engineering team in Athens and work on our business critical backend services.
We are a tech enabled company, currently making substantial investments in our technology platform, from our booking website and mobile app to our key business internal software, to enable our next stage of high growth.The person in this role will work on our backend services with a well established development methodology, a robust CI pipeline, solid engineering practices and challenging requirements (you won't get bored).
Our Stack
- Kotlin | Javascript | Typescript
- Spring Boot
- Node
- Postgres | MongoDB | Redis
- RabbitMq
- Spock | Jest | Cypress.io
- Rest | GraphQL
- Docker | AWS | k8s on EKS
- Serverless
Our code sits on Github, is integrated through Jenkins pipelines and runs on AWS EKS amp; Lambda. We do project management on JIRA, our prototypes and mockups on Figma and monitor our systems and performance on Datadog and New Relic.
What you'll do
- Architect, design and build our internal platform and tools
- Participate in SCRUM ceremonies
- Code services and APIs
- Write your unit tests
- Write your e2e tests (functional amp; performance)
- Automate stuff. Like a lot.
- Be religious with Git
- Depend on a CI pipeline
- Experiment, learn and have fun
What to expect
- To work in agile, cross functional, DevOps enabled teams
- To work with a product manager and an engineer in test
- To work on functional and non functional testing
- To work on performance
- To get your head around a quite big problem domain
- To solve hard problems
- To enjoy some quality engineering
- A rapidly growing company
- Opportunities to do full stack or go polyglot if interested (e.g. Python or Go)
- Cool colleagues :)
Interview process
- Video call dialogue with People Team
- Live coding review, 2+ hours long
- Technical Interview, 1+ hours long and interview with Head of engineering
What to expect at the technical interview?
You will be called to have a long discussion with your future team members. This discussion will cover many things from CS fundamentals to latest coding trends. So we encourage you to do a quick refresh on topics like data structures, algos and runtime complexity as well as core concepts of your primary language (e.g. Java or Python). We will also try to tackle some real-world software design problems together as we do every other day. It may sound scary but it's really not. We want you to succeed.
Requirements
- 5+ years Industry experience in software development
- Strong CS background
- Strong skills in one of Kotlin, Java, Python, Ruby, Javascript
- Strong background in relational databases and SQL
- Good knowledge of the Spring framework amp; the JEE platform is a plus
- Experience in designing REST APIs
- Testing mindset and an eye for clean code
- Really comfortable with Git
- Excellent communication in English
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science or a related subject