Job Application for Backend Engineer at FREENOW

Location: Athens

We are looking for a talented and motivated Backend Engineer (m/f/d) for our Supply Driver Quality Team.

As part of a highly skilled, cross-functional team comprising Mobile Engineers, Backend Engineers, a Product Manager, a Product Designer, a Data Analyst, and a technical Engineering Manager, you will help shape the future of mobility with FREENOW and assist our drivers in their daily work.

Our team is dedicated to enhancing the Quality of Service (QoS) for drivers, ensuring they have the tools and insights needed to deliver exceptional service. We achieve this by:

Measuring and analyzing driver performance, providing actionable metrics to both drivers and internal teams.
Enabling self-service capabilities, empowering drivers to manage their accounts efficiently.
Providing access to support tools, ensuring drivers receive timely assistance.
Integrating key insights into internal systems, fostering collaboration across teams.

As a critical part of our company, this team's work directly impacts thousands of drivers and, ultimately, the experiences of millions of customers. Your contributions in this role will have a tangible and far-reaching effect on the lives of many.

As an engineer on our team, you will tackle exciting challenges, including designing and building innovative products that enhance urban mobility—creating solutions that are delightful, sustainable, and tailored to the needs of our users. You'll be involved in every stage of product development, from ideation to implementation, ensuring a seamless and impactful experience.

We also value a mindset that challenges the status quo—constantly exploring new technologies and approaches to improve our products and maintain a state-of-the-art codebase. Beyond technical excellence, your contributions will help foster a collaborative and inspiring team culture, making our workplace an enjoyable and fulfilling environment.

YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE:

Own the Feature, Own the Code – feel responsible for what you create. It all 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 bottlenecks and performance issues and improving resource usage (DB access, cache, messaging, etc.).
Collaborate with your team members in an Agile environment, contribute to and live our agile ceremonies.
You care about teamwork: Be accountable for all topics above, but work together with the team on them.
Stay on top of the latest technology trends and bring best practices to our daily work.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE:

Passionate about Kotlin or Java.
Experience with the quirks of Spring Boot or similar frameworks, automated tests and CI/CD tools.
Familiarity with monitoring tools (i.e., Grafana, Datadog, Kibana etc.).
Knowledge of microservices architecture.
Keen about principles and practices of scalable web applications, such as RESTful API’s, dealing with transactions, and resiliency.
Familiar with messaging by using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
High level of creativity; there’s all the freedom to think outside the box.
Be communicative, proactive, and always collaborative.
Excellent 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	LinkedIn Learning
Sabbatical & special leave policies	WeRoad partnership
Birthday, 24th + 31st December off	Short term EU work policy
Mobility Credit	Health Insurance
Employee assistance program

Plus more local benefits depending on your work location!

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FREENOW 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, bring your true self to work.

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