Position: Senior Backend Engineer (relocation to Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Company: Miro
Experience required: 5y
Category: Java
English level: upper
Published: 2021-11-01T00:00:00+02:00

About the role
Miro is a successful and fast-growing SaaS company focused on online collaboration tools. With millions of B2C and B2B/Enterprise customers  throughout the globe, we are growing more than 10 times per year, and we work hard to provide them with top-notch solutions that enable distributed teams to work effectively together. 

You can clearly imagine what this means from a technological perspective: We face and successfully resolve hundreds of challenges every day. Engineers at Miro deliver the best on-the-market product solutions. They work on system stability, reliability, scalability and security, all while ensuring top-notch performance and software quality. 

We’re looking for experienced backend engineers to join our team on this fantastic journey, working together to ensure that Miro customers get the best experience possible.

What you'll do
Build the product that empowers teams all over the world to create the next big thing
Create high quality technical design and high quality, self-documented code
Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity
Design and implement scalable and high-performing solutions
Identify synergies between software components and improve efficiency of development and code maintenance
Keep the product vision in mind while working on details
Help to build flexible, future-proof solutions
Continuously improve our agile development process
Take long-term ownership for feature/subsystem
Collaborate with teams across Miro to improve our product, architecture, and engineering practices
Mentor and coach less experienced engineers on the team
What you'll need
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
5+ years of commercial software development using modern programming languages, frameworks, and technologies (Experience building and designing RESTful APIs)
Strong Computer Science fundamentals 
Understanding of k8s, microservice concepts, service-to-service interaction at scale
Experience building high load and large scale distributed systems is a big plus
Experience working in an agile, cross-functional team and in a fast-paced environment
Ability and openness to learn, fail, reflect and apply learnings moving forward
Curiosity and strong collaboration skills
Passion for quality
Good communication skills
Fluent in English
 
About the teams
As a Backend engineer at Miro, you might contribute to multiple products. However, should you feel that your knowledge, expertise and experience would be particularly valuable to one or several domains below, please let us know what would be the best fit:

 

ENTERPRISE

Imagine Miro being used by a team of thousands. Enterprise stream makes larger customers work efficiently, smart and provides them the best possible Miro experience. We're focused on making our product compliant with security requirements of big deployments, improving in-product user and administrators experience, increasing integration with enterprise IT ecosystem and empowering our customers to make the right decisions with insights and analytics

PLATFORM & STRATEGIC INTEGRATIONS

Platform & Strategic Integrations is creating a vibrant third party developer ecosystem around Miro, and developing deep integrations with the top tier vendors in key verticals, including collaboration, messaging, planning, and design.

Responsibilities include the APIs and SDKs required to develop apps and integrations, developer experience, developer relations, app discovery and installation, app integrity, enterprise app management, and the shared infrastructure and governance models needed for teams at Miro to take a "platform first" approach to product development.

STABILITY & SCALABILITY

Stability & Scalability is in charge of the reliability of Miro. The stream is focused on making Miro 99.999% available, keeping data safe and secure; they also support other streams in terms of scalable solutions to build on top of. Their core expertise is in building reliable solutions at scale so they build service-oriented architecture from scratch and improve our storages.

GROWTH & SELF SERVE BUSINESS

Growth and Self Serve Business is focused on distributing and activating value for end users, and delivering monetization for self-serve customers. Expertise and focus sit in running a large volume of experiments, building viral loops, and working on retention and engagement with the product.

USE CASES

Use Cases stream is focused on the verticalization of Miro — providing end-to-end user experience and packaging for specific biggest user scenarios. Current focus is building Meetings & Workshop Experience and Mapping and Diagramming as a part of the core Use Cases.