SPACEWELL is hiring a
Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Spacewell Energy as a Senior Backend Engineer to work on optimizing commercial spaces and providing energy management solutions. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, ensuring platform security and performance, and deploying changes in production.

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)
• Knowledge of programming languages such as Python and/or JavaScript (or others)
• Experience using Docker Containers and dockerizing micro-services
• Experience using relational and/or non-relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, BigQuery)
• Experience in microservices patterns
• 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
• 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)
• Be accountable and proficient with the code that the team writes, keeping it clean and simple
• One day per sprint of two weeks is booked for free choices. The goal of free choices is to try to innovate with new technologies/tools/approaches to improve our products or methodologies

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