Senior Backend Engineer

PLAYTOMIC; Bilbao; Presencial; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Join PLAYTOMIC as a Senior Backend Engineer and take charge of developing robust solutions for an innovative sports app. You will design, develop, and maintain APIs while collaborating with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment. The role offers competitive salary and a creative workplace committed to sports digitalization.

Servicios

Social benefits (€63/month for health insurance or meal tickets)

Gympass discounts for wellbeing and nutrition

23 vacation days plus additional wellness days

Flexible salary options for training and childcare

Formación

• Proven experience as a Backend Engineer with strong knowledge of Java and API frameworks.
• Ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in financial systems and remote teams is a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Develop and maintain robust APIs for seamless communication between frontend and backend.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to devise innovative solutions.
• Ensure high code quality and performance through reviews and best practices.

Conocimientos

API Development

Java

Spring Boot

Database Design

Problem Solving

Communication

Educación

Degree in Computer Science

Herramientas

MongoDB

MySQL

Kubernetes

Descripción del empleo

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Playtomic, you will be responsible for developing robust and scalable solutions for our product, ensuring high performance, consistent and secure transactions.

What you’ll be doing

• Develop and maintain APIs and their services, enabling seamless communication between the frontend and backend, and facilitating third-party integrations.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, product designers and frontend / mobile engineers, to devise innovative solutions.
• Ensure high performance and responsiveness to requests from the frontend
• Maintain a high code quality by continuously optimizing and improving our backend through code reviews, profiling, and implementing best practices and company's standards.

Who you’ll be playing with

You will be part of the engineering team (30 people) reporting directly to an Engineering Manager, working in daily collaboration with Product and other engineers.

Our Ideal "Player"

• Proven experience as a Backend Engineer. Familiarity with the whole web stack, including protocols, system architecture, database design, and web server optimization techniques. In particular, experience with Spring Boot 3, Java 17, MongoDB, MySQL (aurora), Kubernetes is preferred.
• Extensive experience in designing, developing, and maintaining APIs.
• Strong communication skills to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and addressing technical challenges.
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced and dynamic work environment, with a focus on delivering high-quality solutions within specified timelines.
• Located in Madrid or able to travel to Madrid when needed
• Excellent spoken and written English is a must
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Proven track record in designing and implementing payment systems or financial platforms.
• Experience working with remote and partially remote and multicultural teams.
• Experience working in start-ups and scale-ups

What’s in it for you

• Salary 60k-80k
• Social benefits (63 € a month in one of these : health insurance / tickets restaurant), flexible salary in training and kindergarten.
• Gympass discounts in several plans that include gyms, personal classes, access to free apps of wellbeing, nutrition etc.
• Opportunity to work in a top international team
• 23 days of vacation + day off on your birthday + 2 days off for Wellness days in August.
• 1 additional day off per year worked.

Our hiring process

• 1st interview with People Team
• 2nd interview with Playtomic's Engineering Managers, Technical Leadership and Product to assess your technical, product and communication skills.
• Final Interview with Playtomic's CTO.

About PLAYTOMIC

We are world’s largest racket sports App for players and clubs. Our goal is to socialize sports practice : through the app, players can book courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social community dedicated to playing.

Since 2017, Playtomic has earned the trust of national and international investors, consolidating it as one of the main world players in sports digitalization. You will find +150 co-workers around the world with headquarters in Spain and offices in Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, UK, EEUU and Mexico.

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