Senior Backend Engineer, User Team

Senior Backend Engineer, User Team
Talentiir, Denmark

Experience
1 Year
Salary
0 - 0
Job Type
Job Shift
Job Category
Traveling
No
Career Level
Telecommute
No
Qualification
As mentioned in job details
Total Vacancies
1 Job
Posted on
Aug 27, 2021
Last Date
Sep 27, 2021
Location(s)

Job Description

Talentiir is recruiting on behalf of Vivino for the position of Senior Backend Engineer, User Team.

The Vivino Backend User Team is looking to hire an additional developer to help them continue their mission of keeping their users happy, safeguarding their data, and providing working user services to the rest of the company. Their goals are to increase user engagement, personalize their experience, improve product recommendations, and support content moderation.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll be responsible for building features that impact millions of users every day!
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will build APIs and daemons that will help users to find and drink the best wines possible. In addition, their APIs are kept performant and responsive with Kafka used to offload asynchronous tasks. Using Golang, relational/non-relational databases, and Vivino’s custom, open-sourced RankDB solution, your focus will be on delivering high-quality and scalable solutions in collaboration with the rest of the team, while still offering flexibility to work both from home and in the Copenhagen offices.

Your main responsibilities in this position will be:

  • Optimizing and bringing new features to the existing APIs
  • Working with complex and relational datasets
  • Building recommendation programs
  • Programming concurrent systems in Golang
  • Solving problems by writing fast, clean and testable code
  • Communicating and supporting the team with code reviews, testing, and development

You are a curious and communicative person who is eager to learn and share your knowledge!
Among your personal competencies, exceptional communication skills are necessary to enhance team communication and the sharing of knowledge. In this regard, it is required that you can read, write and speak English fluently. At the same time, they are looking for someone who works with curiosity and a desire to learn.

In addition to the above, the following competencies are preferable but not required:

  • Experience from a similar position
  • Good understanding of Kafka
  • Professional experience in Golang
  • Significant understanding of SQL
  • Sufficient understanding of Elasticsearch
  • Experience in working with complex relational datasets
  • Great understanding of document databases
  • A Fullstack or data science background

Working at Vivino
Vivino is a large engineering organization, and joining other teams or evolving your profession is common practice. They encourage learning and career growth. Many positions have a defined promotion path, and if not, we will keep challenging your growth potential by increasing your responsibilities and autonomy.

Culturally, Vivino is a diverse and open organization with an informal tone where everyone’s efforts and contributions are highly valued. In this role, the user team equally splits their time between product management, engineering goals, and team efforts, resulting in significant self-governance and ownership of work. Furthermore, their work culture involves few formal procedures and limits.

In addition to the above, they offer their employees:

  • An awesome work culture with few formalities and limitations
  • A diverse team of many nationalities
  • The possibility to visit their San Francisco office
  • A Friday wine bar with free wine
  • Lunch catering
  • Pension plan
  • Health insurance

Who is Vivino?
TRUSTED BY MILLIONS TO DISCOVER AND BUY THE RIGHT WINE EVERY TIME

Vivino is the world's largest online wine marketplace and most downloaded wine app, powered by a community of millions. Vivino's unique wine shopping experience leverages community data to suggest personalized wine recommendations for each individual user. In addition to making wine discovery fun and effortless, Vivino is the best place for wine drinkers to buy wine. The Vivino app is available for download on Android and Apple devices.

They are a fast-paced, growing team with offices in San Francisco, California, and Copenhagen, Denmark. They also have teams worldwide in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Ireland, Australia, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.

Their team is passionate about their core purpose - to empower people everywhere to enjoy wine to the fullest. They do that every day by building technology and leveraging data that puts the power back in the hands of the consumer. They do not see wine as a commodity but as an offering of a cultural experience that was once out of reach for many but is now open to everyone.

Vivino's five core values are:

  • Always Strive for Better
  • Work Together
  • Earn and Offer Trust
  • Be Approachable
  • Lead with Data

Commitment to diversity

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Talentiir

Information Technology and Services - Copenhagen, Denmark
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