About komoot
Komoot is an app that lets you find, plan, and share adventures. Driven by a desire to explore, and powered by the outdoor communityâs recommendations, itâs Komootâs mission to inspire great adventures making them accessible to all. And weâre good at what we do: Google and Apple have listed us as one of their Apps of the Year numerous times!
Today, with over 25 million users and 200,000 five-star reviews, Komoot is well on its way to becoming the most popular cycling and hiking app for people who love adventures worldwide.
Join our fully remote team and change the way people explore!
About the role
As komootâs next Senior Backend Engineer, you join a highly-motivated team of tech enthusiasts. We are focused on impact, thatâs why we love to find simple and smart solutions to complex problems and embrace modern technologies to face our tough challenges. Join us if you live and love infrastructure as code, automating workflows, x10 scaling challenges, and building resilient, self-healing micro-services.
What you will do
- Implement new product features closely with client developers, designers, copywriters, quality assurance, data scientists, and product managers
- Keep our system state-of-the-art and resilient for our fast-growing traffic
- Develop end-to-end solutions including concept, road map planning, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring
- Build new microservices with Kotlin and AWS, and improve existing ones
- Work on high-traffic online services (like REST APIs) and offline workers for data crunching
Why you will love it
- Youâll work on a global product that inspires millions of users to enjoy the great outdoors
- Positively impact millions of users directly with your onboarding project
- Due to the nature of our data and our scale, you will face interesting challenges that take innovative, non-standard solutions
- We believe good ideas count more than titles
- Youâll take ownership over your projects from day one
- Small overhead: you will work in a small and effective cross-functional team
- Youâll work together with enthusiastic engineers, hikers, and cyclists.
- We let you work from wherever you want, be it a beach, the mountains, your house, co-working location of your choice (covered by us), or anywhere else that lies in any time zone situated between UTC-1 and UTC+3
- Youâll travel with our team to amazing outdoor places several times a year (when safe) to exchange ideas, learnings and go for hikes and rides. Check out this playlist to find out more about how we stay close while being remote. (https://bit.ly/39xtIrn)