Position: (Senior) Backend Developer
Company: Sprinque
Category: Python
Experience required: 3y
English level: fluent
Published: 2021-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

**Description**

Sprinque was founded at the beginning of 2021 in Amsterdam by Manoj Tutika (CTO), Mark Holleman (CPO), and Juan Espinosa (CEO). This international founding team brings together an exciting mix of technical, domain and commercial expertise. We take pride in our diversity and highly value diverse ways of thinking and problem solving. What ties us together is our global ambition to make an impact, to always continue learning, and to build something our customers love and value deeply. Following our successful pre-seed fundraise, we are expanding the team, looking for teammates who love to question the status quo, seek out tough challenges and are comfortable with the uncomfortable.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join our team. You will work closely together with the CTO and the product and commercial teams to shape the future of the Sprinque B2B checkout platform. If this sounds like an exciting opportunity and next step for you and your career, please read on and apply!

**Requirements**

You love building new things. You have at least 5+ years of software development building complex web based software products. You're familiar with Python and backend frameworks such as Django, but have experience evolving larger systems to strategically use more performant languages and tools as required. Sprinque is built on Python(Django/FastAPI), React, and AWS.

You have worked with teams before on long-running projects. You embrace service ownership by individuals. You understand how to design systems in a distributed manner and are comfortable with multi-tenant architecture. You are highly motivated to write and own services.

You love shipping to meet customers’ needs and iterating fast. You’ll be on a team focused on understanding customers' needs and translating those needs from specifications into functional, production-ready code. You'll have the opportunity to build a product and ship code daily that will be used by thousands of businesses.

You love doing things efficiently. We build systems and processes that let us scale our impact to be larger than ourselves.You love learning. Engineering is an ever-evolving world. You enjoy playing with new tech and exploring areas that you might not have experience with yet.

You love to set your own course. You’ll have regular one-on-one meetings with the CTO to help shape and drive your career growth plans. We believe in the maker and manager schedule and try to actively minimise the time devs spend in meetings and spend more time developing cool new features/products.

You have a strong systems oriented mindset. You know how to design systems in a distributed manner across 100s of servers, and understand how interdependencies affect what you build.

Technology Stack at Sprinque
- We use state-of-the-art cloud services from AWS like Lambda, SQS, ECS etc.
- Backend technologies - Django(Python)
- Frontend - React.js (Hosted using AWS Amplify).
- PostgresDB(RDS) for data storage.
- We love & rely on Gitlab for a lot of things like CI/CD automation, repo management, Kanban boards, managing our Kubernetes cluster and of course, we fully embrace Service-oriented Architecture

**Benefits**
- Cool tech gear - Macbook pro or something similar
- Attractive ESOP Participation Plan - Success is always shared.
- Remote work setup - Be comfortable in the way you work from home
- Paid Time Off 🏝 - Work hard, party hard.
- Work From Home 🏡 - Because it's 2021.
- Training & Development Allowances - Always be learning.