Back-end Engineer

Salary Competitive

Famly is on a mission to completely transform the childcare industry. By providing a modern solution for childcare businesses of all sizes, we ease administration, collaboration and communication. We have significant traction in big markets like Germany and the UK with our intuitive and customer-focused platform and now have over 1000 childcare businesses on-board. That’s why we need to add another talented Back-End Engineer to our team.


Famly has been in the market for 5 years, and is used by thousands of parents every day in UK, US, Germany and Denmark. We have received investments from prominent angel investors such as Klaus Nyengaard (Just Eat), Christian Birk (Endomondo), Alexander Aghassipour & Morten Primdahl (Zendesk), and Peter and Susanne Gjørup (Top Toy). We’re based in central Copenhagen, and are expanding our product market fit across various international markets. That’s why we need to add an extraordinary back-end engineer to our team.

Job Description

We’re looking for an ambitious and talented back-end engineer, who wants to learn and grow with the company. You will be working with a close-knit team of colleagues on a variety of technical challenges, while developing new features and improving on existing ones.

Core responsibilities:

  • Designing, developing, and deploying new features and services.
  • Managing core infrastructure (such as Kubernetes, MySQL, ElasticSearch)
  • Improving internal tools to ease development.

Job requirements

  • Proven work experience as a back-end developer
  • Experience with developing web applications
  • Experience working with cloud and container technologies (e.g. AWS, Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude
  • A desire to influence development practices as well as the tech stack.
  • An entrepreneurial spirit.

Extra credit:

  • Experience with functional programming
  • Experience with Kubernetes

This is the perfect opportunity to be a part of a great team of startup entrepreneurs, while being given the freedom to take personal responsibility and make an immediate impact.

 

We hold high ambitions on both a business and culture level and expect our new Famly member to share in our “never settle for mediocrity” attitude. That culture we mentioned? You’ll be part of an incredibly close team, with an unrivaled office location on Købmagergade in the centre of Copenhagen, Friday bars, coffee, lunch, laughs and learning!

 

We can’t wait to meet you!

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Free friday beers
Free friday beers

Skill development
Skill development

Work life balance
Work life balance

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

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Working at
Famly

At Famly, we're on a mission to make it easier to give children the best possible start to life. It’s no small task, and that’s why we’re always on the lookout for more talented people to help us do what we do; changing how the world values early childhood. We improve a child’s learning journey by making it easier for nurturing adults to actively participate, share vital information, and grow closer. By designing and making the best product possible. Teaching and supporting early childhood educators. Supporting our customers to ensure Famly makes their lives easier. Helping spread the word to everyone that wants to listen. That’s what we’re all about. And we build our team by hiring people who are as passionate about making little ones a big deal as we are. You can learn more about us here: https://famly.co/about/

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