SPACEWELL is hiring a
Mid-Senior Backend Engineer, Remote - Spain

Summary

The job description is for a mid-senior backend engineer position in the engineering department of Spacewell Energy. The role involves working in an Agile environment, collaborating with various stakeholders, and ensuring the platform runs smoothly. The ideal candidate should be a team player, have a product mindset, be pragmatic, fluent in JVM languages, experienced in Docker Containers, databases, SOLID principles, Clean Architecture, and the testing pyramid.

Requirements

• Team player: you have good social skills and you enjoy working with people to solve problems together
• Product mindset: you believe that understanding the pains and problems of the customer/user is crucial to build and deliver the best solution
• Pragmatic: understand the urgency and importance of the issue that you work on, balancing quality, performance and time-to-market
• Fluent in JVM languages (Java 8+, Kotlin)
• Experience using Docker Containers and dockerizing micro-services
• Experience using relational and/or non-relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, BigQuery)
• Knowledge of the SOLID principles and Clean Architecture
• Familiarity with the testing pyramid
• Fluent in English

Responsibilities

• Be part of a backend team that is composed of Software Developers and a Product Manager. Working together in the full process of agile software development
• Collaborate closely with various stakeholders, including the infrastructure team, customer success and other development teams
• Ensure that the platform runs smoothly managing millions of measurements every day, by taking into account security, performance and concurrency in the features you work on
• Be involved in a deep refactor of some of our core components: rethinking models, extracting monolith functionalities into independent services, performance and scalability improving, query optimizations
• Deploy your changes in production using CI/CD pipelines: own the whole lifecycle from the pull request to production (testing, software quality metrics, QA & observability in production)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in DDD and clean architecture
• Experience in microservices patterns
• Knowledge of programming languages such as Python and/or JavaScript
• Knowledge of asynchronous, reactive programming principles and the functional programming paradigm
• Experience using Cloud Native Infrastructure (e.g., lambda functions, buckets, managed services, etc.)
• Experience in profiling (memory, cpu, I/O) and service metrics using monitoring tools

Benefits

• Flexible working hours and possibility of early quit Friday
• Hybrid work model
• Office in the city centre of Barcelona
• An exciting and positive work environment where you are valued
• A friendly and talented group with 10+ different nationalities
• Flexible compensation scheme: kindergarten, transportation and food with UP Spain
• 23 holiday days per year (flexible policy)
• Up to 5 additional holidays based on tenure
• 1 additional birthday day off
• Company-sponsored courses and attendance to events
• Discounted private health insurance and gym memberships
• Regular team events
• Referral bonus for new hirings