Website Hotjar
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
We’re looking for an enthusiastic and resourceful software engineer, passionate about building great products, someone who loves being part of a team, whilst enjoying the autonomous nature of working remotely.
You will
- Work in an agile cross-functional team with other engineers, product managers, and product designers
- Create production-grade Python code and will implement solutions designed to handle high levels of traffic
- Participate in building and owning new services that power our product
- Build and maintain dashboards, monitoring essential application and business metrics
- Contribute towards and improve our tech stack which includes technologies such as Python, Flask, Elasticsearch, Postgresql, Kubernetes, Kafka, and AWS
- Plan, build, test, and release new features and experiments
- Work with other team members through pair programming, code reviews, and ad-hoc assistance
- Collaborate with engineers across the department to identify and build on improvements to our processes and systems
- Share your knowledge and learnings across the organization via chapter talks and internal/external posts
Requirements
- 5+ years background in building and maintaining high traffic web backends
- 5+ years demonstrable experience using Python and relational databases
- Experience developing cloud-native web application backends
- Professional experience with system architecture and modularisation
- Experience with automated testing in Python
- Experience using Redis, Linux, Nginx, Elasticsearch, and Amazon Web Services is a plus
- Familiarity with distributed revision control systems such as Git
- Familiarity with automated builds and Continuous Delivery
- Pragmatic approach to engineering, actively avoiding over-engineered solutions, and with an understanding of how to maintain high-quality code in a delivery-focused environment
- Desire to work in a respectful, transparent, and collaborative work environment, following Hotjar’s company values, culture and ways of working
- Will submit to a background check, confidentially processed by our third-party partner
To apply for this job please visit boards.eu.greenhouse.io.
Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Hotjar
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