Software Engineer, Backend

About the job:

• You'll work as part of an agile, cross functional team with other frontend engineers, backend engineers, and product designers.
• You will create production grade Python code and will implement solutions designed to handle incredibly high levels of traffic.
• Participate in building and owning new microservices that power our product.
• Build and take full ownership of components of the Hotjar Platform, in addition to building and maintaining dashboards monitoring essential application and business metrics.
• Mentor other team members through pair programming, code reviews, and ad-hoc assistance.
• Collaborate with engineers across the department to identify and build on improvements to our processes and systems, whilst having involvement in technical decision making.

Requirements

• 5+ years background in benchmarking, optimizing, scaling, and taking care of high levels of traffic.
• Experience using Python and PostgreSQL.
• Experience using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, jQuery, Redis, Lua, Linux, Nginx, Elasticsearch, and Amazon Web Services a plus.
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks such as Selenium.
• Familiarity with distributed revision control systems such as Mercurial or Git.
• Fluent in English with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Desire to work in a respectful, transparent, and collaborative work environment, following Hotjar’s company values, culture and ways of working.
• Will submit to a background check, confidentially processed by our third-party.

What we offer

• A remote and accomplished diverse and international team.
• An opportunity to positively impact people’s experience online and make the web a better place.
• Annual learning and development budget.
• Several perks designed for your well-being and a healthy work-life balance. (Holiday Budget, Wellbeing Allowance, Working Together Budget, 16 weeks paid parental leave, and much more).

Compensation Range