Senior Backend Engineer (Golang)

Meet Urban Sports Club

We are among the leading platforms for sports and wellness in Europe, dedicated to inspiring people to live active, healthy lives. With just one membership we offer access to thousands of fitness and wellness experiences across the continent.

But what truly sets us apart? We believe our people are at the heart of everything we do. If you’re curious about how we work, what we value and how you might grow with us, explore our Culture Hub & Career Opportunities.

*Big news: Wellhub and Urban Sports Club unite!*

Urban Sports Club is now a proud part of Wellhub, creating a global wellbeing ecosystem. Together, we connect 39,000 corporate clients and 97,000 wellness partners across 18 countries, offering millions of people even more ways to stay active and take care of their health.

The opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) to join our Platform hive as part of our Foundation Engineering team to work closely with all the other hives of the Product Development department, Tech and Business teams. At Urban Sports Club our aim is to create a world where everyone enjoys doing sports and we are ambitious in our plans to grow and cater to a wider user audience.

Foundation Engineering is at the heart of this vision, delivering customer value by taking on the opportunities in tech to address, design and deliver on the future of tech in the business and personalise the experience of multi million customers in the near future. You will be responsible for helping us execute our Tech vision, that includes taking on opportunities such as designing our next generation systems such as search, authentication, and such enterprise wide themes as well as scaling our system to accommodate massive user growth.

This position can be based in Madrid, Barcelona or Valencia (in office-attendance is expected in the Valencia office ca. 3 days per month).

What you will do

• Ensure the productivity and resilience of our infrastructure, including monitoring and observability of our services
• Work on standardizing processes and building automation for data pipeline onboarding, deployment, scheduling, failure recovery, and other aspects of operating our platform
• Work closely with the SRE team to ensure developer productivity and CI/CD adoption within the Data Platform team
• Craft and operate the services, infrastructure, and tools that make up our platform to enable the execution of batch and streaming pipelines running on Kubernetes and GCP
• Work hands-on on topics as part of a closely knit team
• Solution architect and deliver company-wide technical topics with a forward-looking vision that aligns technology and business with our multi-year roadmap

What you will need to succeed

• You have gained 5+ years of experience in backend development
• You have experience in development, administration, operation, and troubleshooting of sophisticated, large-scale systems running on Kubernetes
• You are experienced with Go and you are a strong practitioner of system design, architecture, and development best practices
• You break down challenges into modular, scalable solutions and can bridge the gap between technology and business
• You have a strong analytical mindset and a genuine curiosity to experiment and test changes. You challenge yourself and others, never settling for assumptions

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• A fun attitude: you engage, inspire, and motivate the people you work with. We like to have fun while working on this important strategic domain for the whole group

What’s in it for you

• Work on cutting-edge tech and influence the future of our stack: explore our Tech Radar
• We're open to relocation and will provide support with our visa agency
• Free Urban Sports Club L Pro Membership + Friends and Family Discount: Stay active with free membership, plus discounts for friends and family.
• Flexible Work Model: Enjoy a hybrid work setup, balancing on-site and remote work options to fit your lifestyle.
• Extended Remote Work Options: Work up to 120 days remotely within the EU, the UK, and Switzerland, including 30 days outside the EU. You’ll also have the option to desk-swap at our other European offices.
• WorkOUT Life Balance: Take advantage of 30 days of paid vacation annually, plus two additional days for volunteering, flexible working hours, and complimentary access to our mental health provider Open Up.
• Personal Development: Receive an annual budget of €1,000 for professional growth, with regular internal training sessions and weekly German and English language classes.
• Engaging Team Culture: Participate in regular team and company events along with wellness initiatives that help you stay productive, healthy, and engaged in a hybrid work environment.

Urban Sports Club is committed to providing a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for everyone who applies for a position or already works with us, regardless of their sports preferences, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, or religion (or lack thereof).