Description
Darwin Recruitment are currently hiring for a Senior Backend Developer on behalf of a food recyclable company that was formed in 2015, currently has 35+ employees in Stockholm. One-third of all food produced is thrown away annually, resulting in 1.3 billion tonnes of waste worldwide. This company allows restaurants, cafe's etc to sell their food via this companies app, compared to throwing surplus food away, enabling customers to purchase food at a reduced rate.The mission of your role
As a backend engineer at this business, you'll be making a big impact through building innovative applications that solve difficult and meaningful challenges. You'll be a vital part of a cross-functional team made up of engineers, a product designer, and a product owner, where you'll build and maintain APIs and backend services at the heart of their consumer facing application and contribute to and improve their infrastructure and deployment systems.
Tech at this business
They are a small team that wears many hats, and they learn on-the-job by solving challenges in order of urgency and value. They are flexible in what systems and parts of the product they work on, collaborate across teams, and they're involved in features from inception to implementation, including polish and maintenance. They value good code and novel solutions, but know that they're means to an end: done is better than perfect. They choose technologies themselves and view them agnostically as tools that have pros and cons. At the moment, they get things done with TypeScript (Node, React, React Native), GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Terraform, Google Cloud Platform. This role will consist of working Node.js and Typescript in particularly.
Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.