13 hours ago
Berlin, NH, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain a fast, reliable backend.
- Solve backend scaling challenges and own platform architecture.
- Make strong architectural decisions and contribute to product discussions.
- Develop customer-facing products and collaborate across platform boundaries.
- Use AI tools and modern AI practices to improve development speed, quality, and decision-making.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of backend engineering experience in production environments.
- At least 3 years of recent experience with Kotlin or another JVM language.
- Strong software architecture skills.
- Expertise with relational database management systems, including PostgreSQL schema design and safe migrations.
- A proven track record in customer-facing product development.
- Experience with AI tools and modern AI practices.
- Strong written and spoken English.
- Preferred: experience as a tech lead or engineering team lead.
- Preferred: AWS and Kubernetes experience, observability practices involving metrics and logging, Spark and Scala analytics workloads, and full-stack experience, especially with React.
Benefits
- Base salary and performance-based bonuses.
- Office-first work arrangement with flexible hours and the possibility of working remotely 52 days per year.
- 28 days of paid annual leave.
- Employee health insurance including dental care through Barmenia Mehr Zahn 100.
- Daily meal allowance.
- Licenses and access to a wide range of AI tools.
- International collaboration with colleagues across Portugal, Brazil, Latvia, and China.
- Promotion opportunities, professional training, and English courses.
- Annual team-building activities and knowledge-sharing workshops.
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About Joom
Joom Group builds e-commerce products for global trade, including Joom, a cross-border consumer marketplace; JoomPro, a B2B importing marketplace; JoomPulse, analytics for Mercado Livre sellers; and Onfy, a German pharmaceutical marketplace. Founded in 2016 in Riga and privately held, the company moved its headquarters to Lisbon in 2023 and operates across Europe, the Americas, and China. Revenue comes from marketplace commissions, services for sellers, and related transaction fees.