OPPORTUNITY
Do you want to change the world by making people happier? Do you
enjoy innovating with a purpose? Do you wish to have meaningful impact
in millions of users? Are you ready to surf the next wave?
This is your chance to join an ambitious venture since its early
days, aiming to hack user habits and start a revolution in consumer
behavior. At Gratix we are building mobile experiences to make people
enjoy doing good and reshape our society for a better future, while
innovating in the development of business models to make them scalable.
Our mobile app allows anyone to shift their life from consumerism to
authentic sharing as the gateway to align our actions with our values,
to change the world through solidarity and sustainability
Being one of the first team members, you will have an impact
beyond your role, get involved in our strategy and product roadmap,
shaping our future, and grow with the company, from our Madrid office to
the world
If this sounds like you, you will love joining our team. Founded
by an Internet veteran (with more than 10 years experience at Google,
including EMEA leadership in the app space), and integrated by a diverse
top caliber team, with international experience and passion and
commitment to make a difference. We are looking for more pioneers to
join us to solve big problems together. Shout out if you are the next
one - we are waiting for you, and you will never walk alone once you
join us
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
As Back End developer, you will be expected to deliver products
with delightful user experience supported by solid and clean code,
working alongside the rest of the team to focus our product development
on top user needs, bringing effective ideas and solutions to improve
user experience and business results. You’ll own our Back End
technologies, lead the development of its infrastructure, and play a
fundamental role in defining and developing our technologies and
internal processes as we continue to grow, being welcomed to go beyond
your role
Key responsibilities:
- Lead our back front end
development, and roadmap our back end infrastructure and data pipeline
to power our services and applications into the medium and long term,
working closely with the rest of the team and external partners
- Work
closely with the rest of the team in creating product roadmaps and
timelines for product development, including UX/UI decisions
- Be proactive in identifying opportunities and improvements with impact on user and business metrics
- Work
with Agile methodologies focused on achieving performance and learning
goals. Foster adoption of clean code, documentation and good practices
- Define and evangelize engineering best practices as we scale our platform and team
- Initiate and oversee performance audits, manage analytics, setup A/B tests and enhance app store and search engine optimization
- Ensure robustness, performance and failure characteristics of the system
- Be
a critical contributor to make tech a competitive advantage to deliver
value to our users leveraging your tech savviness and curiosity
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Hard skills:
- Degree in Computer Science, engineering,
math, physics or similar technical field of study. Self-learned or
equivalent practical experience might work as well
- Experience in back end development, we are running on PHP/Laravel, MySQL (or similar, if you have quick learning skills)
- Previous professional experience in similar roles with visible results
- Extra points: Analytical tools, elasticsearch, Algolia, web programming, async jobs, Google Cloud Platform.
- Agile, Kanban/ Scrum, Github and active contributions to open source software valued
- English language - spoken and written fluency
Soft skills
- Passion to make people happy and delight them with compelling user experiences
- Excitement about working in an environment where you are expected to make a significant and visible contribution
- Initiative,
results orientation and high accountability to get things done, not
afraid of high bars, tough challenges or demanding timelines if the goal
is worth
- Taste for simplicity and doing more with less, using wisely resources and time
- Flexible startup mindset, willing to contribute beyond the role and work with others
- Continuous learner, intellectual curiosity and a thrive to grow
OFFER
- Immediate incorporation
- Central location in Madrid
- Compensation according to experience, with a high component of company participation
- High trust environment and flexible schedule
- Personal growth and learning, full integration within a talented and collaborative team who will both support and challenge you
INTERESTED? Send e-mail to backend@gratix.com