Backend Engineer (m / f / d) - Madrid

• Own the Feature, Own the Code – feel responsible for what you create. This starts with bringing in your feature ideas, goes over development, testing, and ends in deploying your code and monitoring it.
• Design and develop systems based on product requirements or refactorings.
• Maintain and improve the existing systems by finding application bottlenecks and performance issues, improve the usage of resources (DB access, cache, messaging, etc).
• Collaborate with your team members in an Agile environment, contribute to and live our agile ceremonies.
• Be accountable for all topics above, but work together with the team on them: you care about teamwork.
• Stay on top of the latest technology trends, apply the best practices to our daily work.
• Solving real problems that impact real users.
• Reviewing teammates' Pull Requests and providing feedback.
• Participating in high-level technical decisions.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE :

• Passionate about Java or Kotlin.
• Familiarity with the quirks of Spring Boot or similar frameworks.
• Experience with automated tests.
• Experience with CI / CD tools.
• Familiarity with SQL and especially PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (i.e. Grafana, Kibana, Datadog etc).
• Knowledge of microservices architecture.
• Keen about principles and practices of scalable web applications, such as RESTful APIs, dealing with transactions, and resiliency.
• Familiar with messaging by using RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• High level of creativity, there’s all the freedom to think outside the box.
• Be communicative, proactive, and always collaborative, and enjoy working in a group.
• Very good written and verbal communication skills in English.

Nice to have :

• Experience working with AWS or similar cloud service providers.
• Familiar with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.

BENEFITS & PERKS IN A NUTSHELL :

• Flexible working arrangements.
• Sabbatical & special leave policies.
• WeRoad partnership.
• Birthday, 24th + 31st December off.
• Mobility Credit.
• Health Insurance.
• Employee assistance program.

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION :

FREE NOW is an equal opportunity employer and we consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age. We want you to grow and evolve.