Senior Backend Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Software Engineer to work on unique product challenges: complex algorithms for demand prediction, optimal real-time pricing, routing, fraud detection, distributed systems and much more.Location: Berlin, Germany

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About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, designing, developing, and deploying Bolt's growing backend systems. That will mostly happen via coding in Node.js and TypeScript (PS: no previous experience with Node.js is needed).

Main tasks and responsibilities:

Architecting, designing, developing, and deploying Bolt's growing backend systems.
Contributing ideas and constructive feedback to our product development roadmap.
Helping lead features/initiatives from idea to positive execution.
Working closely with Product to slice and dice scope and deliver piece by piece.
Sharing your knowledge by giving tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices in and outside of the team.
Main tasks and responsibilities:

About you:

You have experience of thriving in an environment that has a fast customer-feedback cycle and having empathy for the end-user.
You are great at making data-driven and metric-driven decisions.
You have a drive for leading initiatives and features till the end, even if the last mile is the hardest.
You feel at home with microservice architecture and you are experienced in API design.
You have strong principles towards writing clean, simple, secure, and maintainable code.
You have a deep understanding of how to write readable, testable, maintainable, and performant code.

Experience is great, but what we really look for is drive, intelligence, and integrity. So even if you don’t tick every box, please consider applying if you feel you’re the kind of person described above!

About you:

Apply now and join us to make cities for people, not cars.

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Get a rewarding salary and stock option package that lets you focus on doing your best work. Enjoy the flexibility of working in a hybrid mode with a minimum of 2 days in the office each week to foster strong connections and teamwork. Take care of your physical and mental health with our wellness perks.

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