Agile Software Developer (Infrastructure)

We are looking for a Software Developer with experience in infrastructure and architecture to join our dynamic Tech Team, based in Madrid (Spain). As a software developer you will be part of a collaborative effort in continuously delivering business value for our product and customers, with special emphasis in traversal/infrastructure services.

We are a SaaS company that believes in simplicity. We work to change the way people feel and make video advertising, aiming to make it as simple as clicking a button.

Engineering Team Culture

We love our profession. We work hard to build the best product and the best team that any SaaS company could have.We consider the team as part of the main product. We are very focused in continuous improvement, always promoting good practices and quality.We have an agile/lean mindset. We try to validate our assumptions, taking small steps and learning throughout the process.We work very hard to avoid creating knowledge silos. Therefore, every team member always tries to expand their comfort zone as much as possible (i.e.: improving and expanding their skills via mentoring or training).We believe DevOps is a culture, not a role.We love simplicity, and we reflect this principle in our code, practices and product.The system/platform is cloud native from day one. This lead us to complete automation, a very solid infrastructure and deep-rooted DevOps practices (i.e. continuous delivery, rolling deploys, microservices, autoscaling, etc.).The initial steps in this journey are described at http://www.eferro.net/2017/02/honey-badger-team.html

ResponsibilitiesFrom coding and testing to releasing, operating and monitoring. The code, in this case, will be mainly backend and infrastructure oriented.Help defining transversal architecture pieces. As of today, this means providing libraries for metrics and instrumentation, a dynamic autoscaling system or even to define and develop all the environment for our architecture.If you are a senior developer: mentoring and helping the others improve in infrastructure, operations practices or instrumentation is a must.Operate our system as everyone else in our team (we have no operation team, nor sysadmins: only the cloud provider and ourselves).

Requirements

Agile mindset and culture. Eager to learn and to continuously improve.Be a team player.Knowledge in AWS services, cloud native design and patterns for scalability, databasesWe use Python, Go, and lot of AWS services. Experience in any of these technologies is very valuable.You enjoy fine-tuning a system’s performance.You are not content with just using distributed systems, containers or service discovery, but you need to (deeply) understand how they work.Strong problem solving skills. Adaptability, proactivity and accountability.A minimum level of english to understand and carry a basic conversation.Any of the requirements can be compensated with an eager to learn (which we expect, in any case). :)

Nice to haveXP practices (we use TDD, Collective ownership, pairing often, simple design).Experience in this or similar roles, preferably in SaaS / Internet / Digital Marketing start-ups.Experience with SQS, Kinesis, RDS, DynamoDB, Prometheus, Grafana or other infrastructure services.

Experience isn't a big concern, though the more experience the better. The most important thing is you have development knowledge, a willingness to learn and an open mind (our system evolves fast). If you have more experience you'll have more freedom, if you have less we'll guide you.

Benefits

Competitive salary packageBudget for books, training, conferences and/or internal training.Unbeatable location: Madrid - a stunning skyscraper in a full-of-life city.Top notch team.One remote day per week.There is also a yearly budget for books, conferences and/or internal training.We're trying to have either weekly or bi-weekly internal workshops, depending on availability of the designated speaker.