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Senior Back-end Engineer in Madrid or Remote

Lingokids

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Job Description

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help us build the infrastructure, developer tools, and frameworks that deliver amazing educational experiences to the children.

Lingokids is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Platform squad and help us build the infrastructure, developer tools, and frameworks that deliver amazing educational experiences to the children of the millions of families that use our mobile application.

At Lingokids we encourage candidates of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We actively seek to hire individuals with different perspectives and we are eager to continue diversifying our company's culture. We strive to be an inclusive, supportive place where you can do the best work of your career.

Our offices are in Madrid, Spain but the position is open to anyone within 2 hours of the CET timezone.

About the job:

As a Senior Backend Engineer in Platform you will take ownership, build upon, and improve the infrastructure, developer tools, and frameworks used by our product squads.

More specifically, you will:

  • User your analytical skills to understand the needs of our products squads, and turn them into simple, well-documented, scalable, and secure services for them.
  • Document technical and architectural decisions for the benefit of both engineering and product audiences.
  • Improve and expand the system we use to track user activity and extract insights across our platform.
  • Maintain and improve internal services and infrastructure such as:
    • Our AWS deployment toolchain
    • A Redis-backed message broker
    • Integrations with third-party billing services (AppStore, Play Store, Stripe, Braintree)
    • Integrations with third-party analytics, CRM, and customer success services
  • Help keep our majestic monolith (Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Sidekiq) lean and modular.
  • Own your work from development to production and ensure its quality, maintainability and supportability.

About you:

The ideal teammate for us would be someone who believes that communication, empathy, inquisitiveness, and open mindedness are fundamental to being successful in any endeavour.

You should have:

  • Considerable experience designing and developing APIs with Ruby on Rails (or similar languages/frameworks) that scale to thousands of requests per minute.
  • A deep understanding of the backend stack: HTTP, Relational Databases, Background Processing Systems, Asynchronous Messaging Systems
  • Experience in both horizontal and vertical scaling of backend systems
  • Comfort working with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, especially to build admin interfaces.
  • A DevOps mentality of owning a service all the way to production.
  • An appreciation for good User Experience (our engineers are our users and our tools strive to reflect that)

English is a must. We are a multicultural team and we are providing a service in English so, we don't care about certificates but we expect you to be able to communicate fluently.

You should feel equally comfortable communicating in long-form writing. Given the circumstances we have become a fully remote company and we are firm believers that being articulate in both spoken and written long-form asynchronous communication is key to working efficiently together.

If you think you don't tick all the boxes, we'd still love to hear from you. Nobody checks every box, and we are looking for someone excited to join the team.

  • Unlimited remote working

    You can choose to work from home indefinitely or attend to the office whenever you feel like it.

  • Flexible hours

    We care about the results you bring to the team. 9 to 6 and constant commuting is not for us either.

  • Visa Sponsorship

    If you need a visa to work in the EU, Lingokids will assist you during the visa process, costs-included.

  • Feedback culture

    Feedback is the breakfast of champions, and we take it seriously!

  • Professional growth

    Up to €2.000 per year for conferences, books and training.

  • Language Lessons

    Language learning is what we’re all about! We’ll cover language classes for you to learn Spanish, English or Portuguese.

  • Stock options

    Joining Lingokids means you can choose to own part of the company.

  • Free friday lunch

    Company allowance to be able to order lunch every Friday with Deliveroo!

  • Happy Hours & Retreats

    From casual drinks after work to our annual retreat, you’ll have tons of opportunities to get to know your colleagues.

  • Diverse environment

    Multicultural team with +19 nationalities and day-to-day work in English.

About Lingokids

We’re the playlearning™ app for more than 20 million families around the world. We teach kids important skills in English and help them discover their natural superpowers. Creativity. Collaboration. Critical thinking. Communication. These are some of the skills that children need to thrive. Parents can join the adventure of learning too. We’ve developed more than 600 games and activities kids and parents can play together.

Our dream is to have a positive impact on 100 million families and we’re playworking™ hard to make it a reality… if you feel this dream could be your dream too, reach out!

 

About Lingokids

We’re the playlearning™ app for more than 20 million families around the world. We teach kids important skills in English and help them discover their natural superpowers. Creativity. Collaboration. Critical thinking. Communication. These are some of the skills that children need to thrive. Parents can join the adventure of learning too. We’ve developed more than 600 games and activities kids and parents can play together. Our dream is to have a positive impact on 100 million families and we’re playworking™ hard to make it a reality. If you feel this dream could be your dream too, reach out!

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