Senior Backend Engineer

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Appfire

๐Ÿ“Remote - Spain

Summary

Join Appfire, a remote-first company, and enjoy the flexibility to work from anywhere, balance your life, and grow professionally. As a Software Engineer at 7pace, an Appfire company, you will collaborate with a cross-functional team to design, build, and maintain application features. You will follow best engineering practices, contribute to product discussions, and champion improvements. Appfire offers a comprehensive benefits package including financial incentives, skills development opportunities, generous paid time off, flexible work arrangements, and private healthcare insurance. Choose Appfire and customize your work experience.

Requirements

  • Proficiency with back-end technologies, specifically API development with .NET and C#
  • Truly engineering approach to solving problems. Strong theoretical foundations of computer science (e.g. data structures, algorithms and computational complexity, FP , OOP ) are highly practical in the ever-changing landscape of technologies
  • Strong understanding of modern microservice architectures, and practical experience implementing them in the cloud (Azure, GCP or AWS), familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Solid architectural understanding of web applications, including performance, quality and security aspects
  • Desire and ability to learn and mentor others and help shape the teamโ€™s culture
  • Command of English at level B2 or higher

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with a self-organizing, cross-functional product team and cooperate closely with Software Engineers, UX Designers, Product Managers, Team Leaders, and with other specialists like Product Marketeers and Support Engineers
  • Design, build and maintain application features that bring value to our customers
  • Follow and establish the best engineering practices: coding standards, automated testing, code reviews, pair programming to build high-quality software that is scalable, reliable, robust and maintainable
  • Share your thoughts openly and honestly about what is best for our customers and the business: you will be part of discussions about the future of our products and Appfire
  • Be the change you seek - champion improvements within the team and products, taking a proactive approach to innovation and process enhancement
  • Take ownership of your work - decide how you structure your day and assignments. We do not micromanage and strongly support work-life balance

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with Node.js with Typescript
  • Familiarity with SQL and relational databases (PostgreSQL or MSSQL are preferred)

Benefits

  • Every Appfire employee is eligible for company equity
  • Work from-home allowance: 50โ‚ฌ gross per month for 11 months a year (i.e. Excluding Holidays)
  • Access to the Appfire University learning platform โ€“ a hub of knowledge, interactive resources, and engaging instructor-led courses designed to fuel your learning journey with unparalleled depth and accessibility
  • 25 working days of paid annual leave
  • Reduced summer hours: From July 1st until the end of August, we work 6 hours daily
  • Flexible bank holiday policy, which allows you to exchange a government-set public holiday for a more convenient time off
  • Private healthcare insurance
  • Annual sport allowance
  • 3 fully paid days each year to participate in Appfire Town, Appfireโ€™s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Program

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