Backend Engineer

What your day is going to look like?

Develop solutions for scalability, platform performance, and much more related to the Tengu platform’s backend part.
Develop new functionalities and documentation, together with our other engineers and smarketing team.
Help maintain the production and development setups; these are some sizeable Kubernetes clusters.
Keep changes small and iterate towards the best solution.
Review and test the developed solutions and features from other engineers in the team.
Document best practices or patterns.
Actively research for and try out new open-source technologies that our customers or we could benefit from using.
Research, design and implement solutions to improve product performance.
Improve, first and foremost, yourself and also our DataOps Orchestration platform.
Help set DataOps at the forefront of every business and build the community.

Who are we looking for?

You have significant professional software engineering experience in start-up or scale-up environments.
You are fluent in Python; other languages are a plus but are not required.
You can reason about software, algorithms, and performance from a high level.
We heavily rely on Kubernetes, so this piece of tech should have no secrets for you. We expect at least two years of experience.
Technologies such as InfluxDB, ArangoDB, Postgresql, Google Cloud DNS, REST, Service Mesh, Kafka and Argo CD should at least be known as a concept.
You are passionate about open source and data.
You are self-motivated, independent and self-organised, and always works tight together with all the teams in an agile way.
You enjoy expanding your horizons and growing as a person daily. You are not afraid to share your feedback and insights to develop further and improve yourself, the team, the processes, the product and the company.
You can thrive in a fully remote organisation (in these unusual times).
Suppose you consider yourself an open communicator, an eager learner, a creative problem solver, a conscientious worker, and a thoughtful, kind and supportive person. In that case, you will be a good fit and might have found your second home with us.

What are we offering?

We’re an ambitious, productive team that embraces a set of shared values (people-centric, openness and CI/CD) in everything that we do.
Tengu is a unique, flexible and fun place to work, and we’re taking a similar unique approach to growing our team members and the team.
We believe our team is the heart of the company. The happiness and life-work balance and a safe work environment for each team member are most important to us, thus part of our shared values.
Therefore, we offer paid time-off next to your yearly legal holidays, working from home, flexible working hours, and a competitive remuneration (meal & eco vouchers, transparent scale of wages and much more.)