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Senior Backend Engineer

  • full time
  • Salzburg or Linz or Vienna
We celebrate diversity, foster inclusiveness and encourage individual expression in our workplaces. We want you to be your amazing authentic self, embracing your differences and individual experiences to help us change lives through the power of sport! Runtastic is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Everyone is treated fairly regardless of race, gender, age, ethnic background, sexual orientation and expression, or other differences.

With hundreds of millions of users, we face the challenge of building a top-class backend infrastructure and applications every day. Our main tools of choice to scale our applications are jRuby, Sinatra, Sidekiq, MySQL, and MongoDB. We are currently looking for Backend Engineers and Senior Backend Engineers, to join our cross-functional teams, who are ready to change the world with code!

What teams you could be a part of:

  • CRM Capabilities Squad: Developing the backend capabilities required to power our notification and messaging capabilities. Continuously monitoring and evolving our existing backend services ensuring a highly scalable, resilient, and performant eco-system.
  • Users & Compliance Backend Squad: Evolving the very core of our backend system, laying a highly scalable and performant foundation for all of our products. Boosting the productivity of our backend engineers and shape how we work by providing core backend capabilities (e.g. service framework).
  • Community Squad: Building scalable and cohesive experiences connecting millions of users on their journey to fitness through engaging features like Followers, Social Profile, adidas Runners and Live Tracking in our adidas Running and adidas Training apps.
  • Community Interaction Squad: Building scalable and cohesive experiences connecting millions of users on their journey to fitness through the engaging Social Feed as well as investing in mechanisms around Community Safety in the adidas Running and adidas Training apps.

What makes you the right match:

  • 3+ years of experience in backend development
  • Experience writing robust, maintainable HTTP and REST APIs. Previous experience with Ruby is a plus
  • Knowledge of SQL and familiarity with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
  • Ability to speak JSON (preferably JSON API) and REST to clients
  • Very good English skills
  • Curious and proactive mindset

About Runtastic:

  • Brand new offices with plenty of space for creativity and informal meetings
  • Working café, terrace, and a play zone with table soccer for the well-deserved breaks
  • Ongoing company parties and sponsored team events
  • Quarterly "days of new ideas" (DONI) to try out new concepts & work with a variety of team members
  • Holistic health package including subsidized massages, free psychological support, and health screenings
  • Free fitness activities like running and yoga, free gym access, as well as a calisthenics park on the rooftop terrace in Linz
  • Budget for participating in sports events
  • Fresh fruit and vegetables, healthy snacks, ice cream, and beverages all day long
  • All-team breakfast, provided by the company, every 2 weeks
  • Visa sponsorship (incl. assistance from our in-house experts) and relocation package

Nationalities
41

Number of employees
290

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And here’s the fine print: Our salary range starts at EUR 54,600 gross per year (based on a 38.5 hours working week). Your actual offer depends on your skillset and experience.

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Bianca Tietz
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+43 660 661 60 69