Senior Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

You'll take over certain areas of our platform and will be responsible for all the technical decisions needed to grow the product and the technical team.

• Scale their architecture. Company were invested in modern tech stack from the start. They run event-driven microservices on Google Cloud Platform, they leverage serverless and they aim for end-to-end type safety. You will define what comes next.
• Scale the team. Company double in size every year. You will take part in hiring and mentoring new people and help them grow from ~20 people to 100.
• Work with complex, sensitive data. Team makes no compromise when it comes to customer's privacy. You will deal with the challenging insurance data – ever evolving, loosely structured, deeply personal.
• Connect with stakeholders and iterate with them. This might be the most overlooked part of any software engineering job. At Feather, everyone cares about the end-user and you should, too. You'll be speaking to the whole chain, from our customers, to insurance experts, to your fellow engineers.

Requirements

This is a Node.js role, but candidates that are switching from similar tech stacks (Python, Ruby, Elixir etc) are welcome. Ideally, you'll have:

• Previous experience in a similar role and a strong knowledge of the node.js ecosystem.
• Experience with statically typed languages. We love TypeScript, and we hope you do too.
• Previous experience with event-driven microservice systems and working with message brokers like Cloud Pub/Sub, Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Good understanding of Google Cloud Platform or any other cloud provider and experience with modern deploy stack – serverless, docker, kubernetes.

They offer

• Small team, flat hierarchy, mission driven, and no politics. The usual buzzwords here, except we actually mean them. They’re small, lean, and they love what they’re doing.
• You’ll be building a product that people need, and are grateful for. Their excellent Trustpilot and Google reviews speak for themselves. They’ve built a product around people, and they love it.
• Budget for learning. They want you to grow with them, so they offer a €1,200 yearly budget that you can spend to learn new stuff (books, conferences, subscriptions, etc.).
• Very flexible remote work policy. You'll only be requested to travel to Berlin occasionally.
• An opportunity to help nurture a culture of design thinking in its early stages.

What will the interview process look like

• Initial phone call - They'll have a chat over Google Meet and ask you a few technical questions.
• Take-home task - They'll give you a case study to work on - alternatively if you've already done a relevant ask with another company, you can skip this part.
• Reviewing the take-home task - They ask you technical questions on your assignment and do a bit of pair programming together.
• Chat with the founder - You'll be speaking to one of their founders (either Rob or Vincent).