Position: Ambitious backend techlead
Company: FlashFX
Category: Node.js
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

Enthusiastic backend techlead required for permanent full-time role to design, develop, and maintain money transfer features of our FinTech company. You will be the decision maker and the executor. We need someone in European timezone to lead the engineering efforts, architect new features and components, etc. You will tell us not only how to do, but also what to do.

Our current techlead is moving to our head office in Sydney, Australia. Leaving our Ukrainian team without his vast knowledge of databases, queues, infrastructure, networking, etc.

We allow our developers to work their 25% of time on anything they want but useful for the company.
We do not allow developers to work more than 40h/week.
We use single cloud - AWS.
All our code is written with JS/TS.
We do microservices and try shift to event-driven architecture(s).
We use Atlassian suite of developer apps.
We are an Australian company. But our IT are mostly Ukrainians.

Requirements:

* You must be in Ukraine atm. This is our principled stand.
* You will be talking in English. A lot. We'd need you to be Upper Intermediate.
* You should be at the Lead Backend position for at least 1 year
* A lot of interest, enthusiasm and excitement in building things for real people, not some abstract "stake holders"
* Continuous self-education all things IT
* Ukrainian skill (mandatory)
* Understanding how to build reliable software
* Understand the difference between DNS, IP, IP address, DevOps, MLOps, and other IT terminology
* Age: from 18 to 142 (yeah, we really do not care how old you are, but care about how ambitious you are)

We hate multi-stage hiring process. It's a waste of your time. You and us are going to hold a single interview. Thus, you will hear our Yes/No decision on the first and only interview.

You work at your own schedule. But we have couple of weekly all-hands catchups in Kyiv mornings, Sydney evenings. Obviously, the work is fully remote. You pay your taxes yourself.

We are a successful self-funded FinTech startup. We do not do Scrum Sprints. Heck, we do not do Scrum at all. Instead, we run the marathon. Because people get tired after every sprint, we don’t want that. We want you to run at your own pace, stable, steady, healthy, sane and continuously productive. Mental health is high on our list of priorities. Scrum squeezes you too much. Fuck Scrum.

Another unique trait we have - salaries of all employees are open within the company. You will know how much the rest of the staff earn. This decreases pay gap inequality, improves retention, collaboration, etc.

We do not have bureaucracy. The company is driven by the Common Sense principle. We all are talking to our CEO, CTO, CRO about features and company needs. We are growing our profits every year. Last year we did +48% YoY growth.

We are proud of the fact that out of 22 people not a single permanent employee have ever left the company. The company is 6 years old, but so far we have 100% retention rate. Because we care about you.