Senior Backend Engineer

About komoot

Komoot is an app that lets you find, plan, and share adventures. Driven by a desire to explore, and powered by the outdoor community’s recommendations, it’s Komoot’s mission to inspire great adventures making them accessible to all. And we’re good at what we do: Google and Apple have listed us as one of their Apps of the Year numerous times!

Today, with over 25 million users and 200,000 five-star reviews, Komoot is well on its way to becoming the most popular cycling and hiking app for people who love adventures worldwide.

Join our fully remote team and change the way people explore!

About the role

As komoot’s next Senior Backend Engineer, you join a highly-motivated team of tech enthusiasts. We are focused on impact, that’s why we love to find simple and smart solutions to complex problems and embrace modern technologies to face our tough challenges. Join us if you live and love infrastructure as code, automating workflows, x10 scaling challenges, and building resilient, self-healing micro-services.

What you will do

• Implement new product features closely with client developers, designers, copywriters, quality assurance, data scientists, and product managers
• Keep our system state-of-the-art and resilient for our fast-growing traffic
• Develop end-to-end solutions including concept, road map planning, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring
• Build new microservices with Kotlin and AWS, and improve existing ones
• Work on high-traffic online services (like REST APIs) and offline workers for data crunching

Why you will love it

• You’ll work on a global product that inspires millions of users to enjoy the great outdoors
• Positively impact millions of users directly with your onboarding project
• Due to the nature of our data and our scale, you will face interesting challenges that take innovative, non-standard solutions
• We believe good ideas count more than titles
• You’ll take ownership over your projects from day one
• Small overhead: you will work in a small and effective cross-functional team
• You’ll work together with enthusiastic engineers, hikers, and cyclists.
• We let you work from wherever you want, be it a beach, the mountains, your house, co-working location of your choice (covered by us), or anywhere else that lies in any time zone situated between UTC-1 and UTC+3
• You’ll travel with our team to amazing outdoor places several times a year (when safe) to exchange ideas, learnings and go for hikes and rides. Check out this playlist to find out more about how we stay close while being remote. (https://bit.ly/39xtIrn)

You will be successful in this position if you

• Are highly self-driven, responsible and keen to learn and improve
• Have 3+ years of professional experience in developing distributed and resilient backend APIs
• Have 3+ years of professional experience with Kotlin, Java or Scala
• You have been responsible for configuring and running applications in production on AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure or Kubernetes
• Have experience with Infrastructure as Code, continuous integration & deployment and monitoring
• Enjoy paying attention to details and care about solid solutions
• Are a great communicator in a diverse team

Sound like you?

We would love to hear from you! Please send us the following:

• Your CV in English highlighting your most relevant experience
• A write-up explaining who you are and why you are interested in working at komoot
• Feel free to send us something that shows us a little more about what you’re interested in, be it your account on GitHub, Twitter, Instagram, Medium or your blog.

Curious to find out more about our recruitment process?

• Find out more info here: https://www.komoot.com/jobs-process
• At komoot we want to make great adventures accessible to everyone. We support diversity and inclusivity within the outdoors and welcome all prospective applicants.
• We have a rolling recruitment process. If this role is online it means it’s still open. We’re accepting applications and actively looking for the perfect candidate. Is it you?

Perks

• 38 days of vacation (incl. public holidays)
• Dedicated time and budget to spend on your professional development: classes, conferences, books – you decide!
• Discounts from leading outdoor and cycling brands
• Flexible working hours and ability to work from anywhere in Europe
• Three whole-company gatherings per year in beautiful locations
• Optional “togetherness” trips with your team
• Costs covered for your co-working space membership or your work from home office
• The latest devices and equipment to do your best work