Senior Backend Engineer

About pplwisepplwise supports leading, fast-growing companies across Europe in delivering on their growth plans. Our services include Recruiting as a Service & Executive Search specializing in the support of technology companies during their growth phases.
We work with publicly traded companies like Uber or JustEatTakeaway, Unicorns like Clark, TIER or Taxfix and countless start-ups and scale-ups funded by top venture capital funds like Sequoia Capital, HV Capital or Cherry Ventures.  pplwise was founded in 2021 and already operated in +20 countries across Europe with a team of +15 talented Talent Partners. Ambitious technology companies manage growth phases with pplwise.
Senior Backend Engineer (m/f/d)Austria or remote within EU
About our customer
Our customer is a fintech scaleup awarded as the most interesting scale-up in Austria, rasing 15 millions overall! Their goal is to empower business leaders to make the right strategic decision in Financial Management and planning by helping companies plan, forecast and analyse all their data in one place! They have been backed up by unicorn founders and renowed investors ( Wefox, Atlantic Labs, Commerzventures)

The challenge

• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code while participating in the direction of application architecture 
• Concepting and delivering entirely new core features of the application, making the architecture behind those scalable and reusable
• Maintain code quality across the organization, bring in your experience to develop a large application
• Implement all user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic and identifying bottlenecks or bugs
• Work in an agile environment with cross-disciplinary teams

Skills & Experience you bring to the table

• Excellent and in-depth understanding of the syntax of Python and its nuances, AWS and Git 
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming 
• Familiarity with concepts of RESTful APIs, Mocking, and ORMs. GraphQL is a plus.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application 
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (git) 

What to expect:

• Being a part of a highly motivated international team of professionals
• Lots of responsibility
• A workplace in the heart of Vienna or remote options with quarterly office weeks in Vienna
• Healthy team spirit, a growth-oriented environment, and a culture of performance. Our customer stands for respect, a welcoming atmosphere, fairness, an active feedback culture, room for failure, collaboration and a strong sense of team appreciation.

pplwise actively promotes a diverse and inclusive environment, which supports every candidate in being themselves. Our team takes affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for your application regardless of nationality, ethnic or national origin, skin color, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity.
We encourage everyone to apply, even if you don't meet all the requirements 🚀
We are looking forward to your application!