Senior Backend Engineer

full time
Linz, Vienna, Salzburg or Remote*

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 Squads: Building scalable and cohesive experiences for millions of socially connected consumers. Embrace the social spirit in our apps with features like Followers, adidas Runners, Live Tracking, Social Feed and many more

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:

6 weeks of paid vacation (instead of the Austrian standard of 5 weeks)
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
280

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*And here’s the fine print: As part of our hybrid setup, we are currently hiring fully remote team members in AT, ESP, FRA, GER, GRC and UK (prerequisite: valid work & residence permit in the respective country). Conditions and benefits differ from country to country.

And what about the salary? Our minimum salary starts at EUR 54,600 gross per year (based on a 38.5 hour working week). Of course we are happy to negotiate a salary based on your skills and professional experience.

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Your contact
Bianca Tietz
Talent Scout
+43 660 661 60 69