Senior Backend Engineer – remote

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🇦🇹 Austria – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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refurbed

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201 - 500 employees

🛍️ eCommerce

🛒 Retail

☁️ SaaS

💰 Series C on 2023-11

eCommerce • Retail • SaaS

refurbed is an online marketplace that specializes in selling refurbished electronics, including smartphones, laptops, tablets, and various accessories. Committed to sustainability, refurbed ensures that all devices undergo a thorough refurbishment process to meet high quality standards, offering a minimum 12-month warranty on each product. The company promotes environmentally-friendly practices by encouraging the reuse of technology and minimizing electronic waste, making it a preferred choice for eco-conscious consumers.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain core APIs and backend services powering the mobile app and marketplace • Own operations and monitoring of production systems • Review backend designs and API changes across squads to ensure compatibility with mobile app needs and constraints • Identify and flag mobile-related backend caveats early • Integrate third-party systems and APIs into the platform • Own the design and implementation of new features and services • Identify best practices and create or suggest standards for the engineering department • Document and demonstrate solutions through documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code • Mentor junior colleagues and onboard new joiners • Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and business stakeholders • Present insights, achievements, and results in relevant meetings • Occasionally propagate backend changes to frontend

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years experience designing and building scalable backend services in a modern production environment • Strong proficiency in Go • Deep understanding of distributed systems and service-oriented architecture • Comfortable with JavaScript/TypeScript, or able to pick up Node.js quickly • Experience working on a team that builds and maintains a native mobile app • Understanding of how mobile apps consume backend services, including API design for mobile, versioning and backwards compatibility, release cycles, latency, and offline behaviour • Well-versed in SQL and relational database design • General knowledge of frontend development and ability to perform basic tasks in frontend apps • Strong ownership, initiative, and ability to quickly learn and navigate complex systems • Clear, direct, and respectful communication • Excellent English skills • Based in a European time zone • Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience is desired • Curiosity and willingness to experiment with new development approaches, frameworks, AI tools, or practices • Ability to operate beyond own squad, review designs, and guide other engineers is a bonus

🏖️ Benefits

• Dedicated learning budget within the department for courses, conferences, and other learning opportunities • Private sessions with experts through Likeminded for personal growth and mental health • Internal workshops for skills development and cross-department collaboration • Fully remote work setting • Possibility to work from the Vienna office • Self-organized working schedule and flexibility • Office weeks three times a year with team-building events and on-site workshops • Dog-friendly office • Feedback-oriented, knowledge-sharing, inclusive, collaborative culture