Senior Backend Engineer

What we're looking for

We’re looking for a talented and passionate Senior Backend Engineer to join our development team. You’ll be working on a big variety of platforms to support and expand a set of apps, including the most popular Motivation app - with over 20 million users.

Our offer:

• 🧠 Work on products that matter: 2 of our apps are among the most downloaded apps in the Mental Health space, with a 4.9 rating and more than 500k reviews.
• 📈 We are bootstrapped, profitable, and believe we can continue growing sustainably without pressure from outside investors or an exit strategy.
• ⌛We are a remote team and strive for an ideal work-life balance: work asynchronously as much as possible and minimize meetings to set your own schedule with flexible hours.
• 🐒 Enjoy extra holidays → 4 additional company-wide days off (one per quarter).
• 🏖️ Extended vacations after your 1st year -up to 5 additional days!- and the possibility to travel and work from anywhere.
• 💻 Choose your ideal remote work setup with an equipment allowance.
• 💳 Manage your compensation options (via Cobee) → food and daycare expenses, medical insurance.
• 😌 Mental healthcare support.
• 🍸 Enjoy Monkey Taps outings, paid for by the company.
• 🪪 Manage licenses for Work-Related Software → budget to have the necessary software to excel in your role.
• Salary range starts at 65.000€.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve our APIs, admin tools, and websites.
• Build data integrations, help define our data model and research ways to improve our sorting algorithms.
• Continuously learn new technologies and platforms (Slack, Alexa, and Discord apps, Chrome extension, ML models…).
• Work at all stack layers, including AWS, Python, FastAPI, NodeJS, and SQL.
• Take an active role in identifying the tooling and infrastructure needs of the company.

Requirements:

• Positive attitude, passion for learning new technologies, and genuine care for our users.
• At least 8+ years designing and developing APIs, 5+ years in Python, NodeJS, or similar.
• Extensive experience scaling and maintaining high-traffic, resilient modern APIs.
• Strong experience in creating new APIs from scratch.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD tools.
• Proficiency with Git and Gitlab.
• Strong experience with Redis and ElasticSearch databases.
• Ability to work well with others and communicate clearly in English.
• Ability to hack solutions when necessary, making the right trade-offs in dealing with conflicting priorities.
• Ability to understand product needs, and translate them into technical solutions.

Nice to haves:

• Experience working in consolidated companies like e-commerce, gaming, etc.
• Experience in Frontend Development with technologies such as VueJS, React, or similar.
• Experience or knowledge in ML and/or MLOps.
• Passion for mental health, positive psychology, and self-improvement.
• Experience working in a high growth startup.

How to Apply

Does this role sound like a good fit? Email us at rocio@monkeytaps.app

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