Position: Backend Engineer (Sweden)
Company: Diet Doctor
Category: Golang
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

OUR MISSION

Diet Doctor is a health company that aims to empower people everywhere to dramatically improve their health. We focus on lifestyle interventions — not medication or surgery.

What are the important components of a healthy lifestyle for those with obesity or type 2 diabetes? How can people implement this lifestyle in a sustainable way?

Currently, no major health organization in the world has an effective answer. We aim to change that.


PROGRESS

We're among the largest keto and low-carb sites in the world.

We don't need to show any ads or sell any physical products.

We attract about 5 million monthly visits and have 60+ employees (from 20+ different nationalities).

We're among the top 5 ranked nutrition websites in the world on Trustpilot and have strong Glassdoor ratings.

OUR CULTURE 

At Diet Doctor, we aim to always live our four company values: trustworthiness, simplicity, inspiration, and goodness.

Our goal is to make the world a better place by empowering people everywhere to dramatically improve their health.

We believe building a team of top performers — who live by our values and get great things done fast — will significantly increase our ability to make rapid progress toward our purpose.

That’s why we're passionate about building a world-class team. Few things in life are as exciting and rewarding as working toward meaningful change alongside other like-minded people.


THE CHALLENGE 

Help us build and improve our core product

Our goal is to make the world a better place by empowering people everywhere to dramatically improve their health.

 
WHAT YOU'LL DO 

Work as part of a cross-function product team to build and improve our products and deliver value to our customers.

Build and improve our backend microservices architecture.

Be part of the platform functional team responsible for infrastructure, automation, and operations.

Define and drive technical proposals, architectural decisions, and other initiatives across Engineering and the wider company.


WHO YOU ARE

You have a product mindset and care about end-users and the products they use

You have 2-3 years of experience as a developer in a backend role, and preferably experience developing services using Golang

You are knowledgeable in distributed systems

You are comfortable with cross-functional tasks i.e. infrastructure, automation, and operations.

You have experience in interacting with APIs, writing end-to-end tests, and consider performance and security when building web applications.

Finally, you are someone who wants to do their part in truly making the world a better place.