Job Application for Backend Engineer at FREENOW

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Location: Come and join us in Athens!

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

As part of a highly-skilled cross-functional team that comprises 2 iOS Engineers, 2 Android Engineers, 3 BE Engineers, Product Manager, Product Designer and headed up by a technical Engineering Manager, you will help shape the future of mobility with FREENOW and assist our drivers in their daily work.

The team mission is to simplify and elevate the journey of FREENOW drivers, ensuring a smooth and rewarding experience throughout every trip. To do so, some challenges you will face will be to design and deliver impactful solutions (by participating in all stages of their discovery and delivery) that will provide a delightful, sustainable, and customized urban mobility experience. We have tens of thousands of drivers from 8 countries using our platform 24/7.

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 Java or Kotlin
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 RabbitMQ or Kafka
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

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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, bring your true self to work.

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YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE:

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BENEFITS & PERKS IN A NUTSHELL:

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